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UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Interviewing Therapists Lives, Practice & Relationships

Narrative Therapy Conference

Feb. 4-6, 2027 Granville Island, Vancouver Canada

SCHEDULE

Connection. Appreciation. Celebration.
Train with Integrity, Creativity, Politic and Purpose 

Join us on February 4th - 6th 2027 in Supernatural Vancouver, Canada

Experience the best of the best world-class presenters interviewed about their lives, politics, values, and passions and ~ demonstrating the latest narrative therapy informed relational interviewing practices - live. 
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Therapeutic Conversations 24
Conference Highlights:

Up Close & Personal
A New TC Conference Design

 

Conference faculty demonstrate the latest narrative therapy informed practices, relational questions, and theoretical ideas. This sets the stage for intimate and revealing interviews with the presenter to engage their relational lives, family histories, passions, commitments, values, doubts, struggles and sustaining narrative practices - through questions like:

  • Whatever do you do to remain fresh, committed, creative and innovative?

  • Who were your important mentors growing up?

  • What's does it feel like asking your most well loved narrative questions?

  • What is it about your history and values that sustains your daily inside the therapy room practice?

  • What can you tell us about the journy of becoming a psychotherapy outsider?

  • How has narrative practice influenced other relationships in your life?

  • Do you ever feel like quitting therapy?

  • What are the specific politics at the heart of your work?

  • What is the one feeling you experience most inside the therapy room that no one really knows about?

  • Do you still have practice doubts, fears and worries like the rest of us?

Confirmed Conference Presenters

Rosa Elena Arteaga (Mexico/Canada), Christine Dennstedt (Canada), Todd Disney (USA),  Julia Gerlitz (Canada), Helene Grau (Denmark), Stephen Madigan (Canada), David Marsten (USA), Todd May (USA), Ottar Ness (Norway), David Nylund (USA), Tommy Spence (Canada), Dina Von Heimburg (Norway)

Daily Post-Conference Parties
 

Lets be honest - half the reason you come to VSNT conferences is to kick back, exhale, chit-chat, share a drink, laugh a lot, and connect with super cool and interesting therapists from around the globe. Our February 2027   conference will prove no different. 

TRUST REGISTRATION ~ for participants who already know they're coming to the conference before the final schedule of presenters and workshops is published. A thank you to keeners who register early at a reduced rate

Offer ends 30/08/2026

Private stories of sitting inside the therapy room: the agony, ecstasy, doubt, wonder, courage, commitment, and beauty ~ we all share 

​​​1/2 DAY WORKSHOP INTERVIEWS
NEW  PRACTICE DEVELOPMENTS

​Narrative Practice and

Psychedelic Medicines

 

L​ive Supervision Demonstration

Evolving Therapeutic Letter Writing

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Developing Narrative Therapy Questions Demonstration​​

 

Context, Politics & Power: Narrative Ideas and Disordered Eating​

More workshops coming . . .

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FULL DAY WORKSHOP INTERVIEWS​​

DAY 0NE

 

Responding to Trauma and​

​Gender Violence + ​Narrative Group Work with Trauma and Sexual Abuse

~ Rosa Arteaga + Julia Gerlitz

with guest interviewers

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DAY TWO

Relational Interviewing with Grief, Loss + Conflicted Couple Relationshps

~ Helené Grau, Stephen Madigan

+ guest interviewers

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DAY THREE

Relational Interviewing with Children, Youth and Families

~ Christine Dennstedt, David Marsten, & Rock Nylund  + guest interviewers​​

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1/2 DAY WORKSHOP INTERVIEWS​​
WHEN THEORY MEETS PRACTICE

Michel Foucault’s Philosophy and the Politics of Narrative Practice

 

~ Todd May

with guest interviewers

Poetics, Politics and Identity ~ Finding Beauty in Turbulent Times

~Todd Disney

with guest interviewers

Beyond Emotion Regulation + other siily notions: Narratives Relational Practice

~ Rock Nylund

with guest interviewers


WellFare: The relational impacts of everyday life on people’s wellbeing

 

~ Ottar Ness

with guest interviewers

More workshops coming...

Branch In Sunlight

On July 1, 2022, VSNT faculty lost their very close friend and narrative colleague Gunnar Martinsen of Bergen Norway. To celebrate and remember his wonderful full-hearted passionate spirit, we will be offering five scholarships to Therapeutic Conversations 24.

Please contact VSNT to be considered for a scholarship opportunity. 

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