Stephen Madigan MSW, MSc, PhD
Director of VSNT Training
Narrative Therapy
2nd Edition
In 2011 the American Psychological Association (APA) released Stephen Madigan’s book Narrative Therapy. This amazing little 'book that could' reached a massive international audience and went on to become a 'best seller'. The book is now accompanied by a six session video by an eight person film team of Stephen's live therapy work.
In 2019 the APA published the Second Edition of Narrative Therapy. This new text richly explores the amazing world wide renaissance in narrative therapy and guides the reader towards the most contemporary and exciting new practice developments that are shaping the future of our practice.
Michael White and Stephen Madigan, 1992
In this Second Edition, Stephen Madigan does a superb job of “remembering the future” of narrative therapy by drawing on the rich traditions of its past and taking us to the multiple developments of the present. He catches Michael White’s voracious appetite for learning new ideas and sweeps us up into whirlwind of iterations of narrative—true to the original innovative thinking. Both those new to the narrative approach as well as longtime theoreticians and practitioners will delight in this explication.
— Victoria Dickerson, Ph.D., President, American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA)
Stephen Madigan
Teaching and Supervision Schedule
June 2021- June 2022
2021
JUNE 11, 12, 13, 19 & 20, 2021 - ONLINE (Sold Out)
Bonus Day Followup: July 10, 2021
VANCOUVER, CANADA: Foundations training (Level one) ONLINE
Preparing participants for practice! Teaches key narrative therapy practice fundamentals and theory of Michel Foucault. Foundations Level Certificate Training Course faculty include 5 world class narrative therapists and one brilliant philosopher. Register here on the site. Questions? Please contact Robin at: narrativevancouver@gmail.com and 604-688-7860.
JUNE 18, 19 & 20, 2021 - ONLINE (Sold Out)
Bonus Day Followup: July 10, 2021
VANCOUVER, CANADA: Advanced Developing Questions ONLINE
Advanced Developing Questions Certificate Training Course faculty include is taught by narrative therapists Stephen Madigan, David Rock Nylund and philosopher Todd May. See site for clear explanations of how this unique learning course is structured. Register here on the site. Questions? Please contact Robin at: narrativevancouver@gmail.com and 604-688-7860.
August 4, 2021
SAO PAOLO BRAZIL - ONLINE
Solo Pre-conference Workshop: Narrative Therapy Informed Relational Interviewing with Highly Conflicted Couple Relationships. 14th Brazilian Congress of Family Therapy: Family therapist's skills in multiple human contexts: social, business, legal, health, clinical, educational. Contact: Silvana Silvestre or Eliane Pelles: abratef@abratef.org.br
September 23 2021
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY - ONLINE
Regular Ongoing Monthly Supervision with Family Therapy High Couple Conflict Teams. Relational Interviewing in session transcript supervision, therapy videos, and consultation.
September 24-26 & October 2-3, 2021 - ONLINE (SOLD OUT)
Bonus 1/2 Day Followup: October 16th, 2021
Foundations & Fundamentals of Narrative Therapy Practice prepares participants for practice! Teaches key narrative therapy practice fundamentals and theory of Michel Foucault. Foundations Level Certificate Training Course faculty include 5 world class narrative therapists, a critical race scholar and one brilliant philosopher. Questions? Please contact Robin at: narrativevancouver@gmail.com and 604-688-7860. Register here on the site.
October 14, 2021
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY - ONLINE
Regular Ongoing Monthly Supervision with Family Therapy High Couple Conflict Teams. Relational Interviewing in session transcript supervision, therapy videos, and consultation.
October 21-22 October, 2021,
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - ONLINE
Narrative Therapy Training in Family Mediation through narrative therapy informed Relational Interviewing. Stephen's training workshops are the result of the partnership between IDD PUC-Rio, GIMEC PUC-Rio and MEDIARE. Please contact: Mia, Renata, Samantha, Tania, Edmundo e Maria at: pucriogimec@gmail.com
October 28-29, 2021,
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - ONLINE
Narrative Therapy Training in Family Mediation through narrative therapy informed Relational Interviewing. Stephen's training workshops are the result of the partnership between IDD PUC-Rio, GIMEC PUC-Rio and MEDIARE. Please contact: Mia, Renata, Samantha, Tania, Edmundo e Maria at: pucriogimec@gmail.com
November 12-14, 2021- ONLINE (SOLD OUT)
Applied Skills for Narrative Practice - Level One provides an up close and personal, interactive, hands on experience to help participants move away from the struggle and agony of not knowing what to do when sitting with clients in the therapy room. Each participant will continually experience the faculties transparent critical and encouraging reflections about participant's work - as they learn to more creatively develop narrative therapy questions and therapeutic letters.VSNT faculty: Stephen Madigan and David (Rock) Nylund - practicing narrative therapists with tens of thousands of therapy hours sitting in the narrative therapy chair and - the brilliant teacher and philosopher Todd May - author of 16 books including books on Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. Register here on the site. For questions please contact Robin at: 604-6887860 or narrativevancouver@gmail.com.
November 18, 2021
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY - ONLINE
Regular Ongoing Monthly Supervision with Family Therapy High Couple Conflict Teams. Relational Interviewing in session transcript supervision, therapy videos, and consultation.
November 25-26, 2021
BERGEN, NORWAY - ONLINE
Annual 2-day Foundations & Fundamentals Certificate Training Intensive with the University of Bergen. This highly interactive course is taught through multiple family, couple and individual narrative therapy session videos.
December 9, 2021
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY - ONLINE
Regular Ongoing Monthly Supervision with Family Therapy High Couple Conflict Teams. Relational Interviewing in session transcript supervision, therapy videos, and consultation.
2022
February 25-27 & March 5-6, 2022 - ONLINE
Bonus 1/2 Day Followup: March 19th, 2021
Foundations & Fundamentals of Narrative Therapy Practice prepares participants for practice! Teaches key narrative therapy practice fundamentals at the heart of narrative therapy through close up discussion, faculty videos and Live interviews. Foundations Level Certificate Training Course faculty include 5 world class narrative therapists, a critical race scholar and one brilliant philosopher. Questions? Please contact Robin at: narrativevancouver@gmail.com and 604-688-7860, or register here on the VSNT site.
March, 2022 LIVE (Travel restrictions dependent on Covid)
Trondheim, Norway
LIVE Supervision with the Family Therapy High Couple Conflict Teams. Stephen works live with conflicted couple relationships over the course of two days with the clinic's Response Team sitting behind the one way mirror. The team and Stephen put into practice the 4-step Relational Supervision Response Team framework they invented. Closed to the public.
March 16-17-18, 2022 LIVE (Travel restrictions dependent on Covid)
Bergen, Norway
Annual 3-day Foundations & Fundamentals Certificate Training Intensive + Relational Interviewing with Conflicted couple relationships - with the University of Bergen. This highly interactive course is taught through multiple family, couple and individual narrative therapy session videos filmed in Canada, Norway and the USA.
March 25-27 & March 2-3, 2022 - ONLINE
5 - DAY Advanced Narrative Practice
Inspired through the work of one critical race scholar, one trans identified community organizer, a continental philosopher, and five world class narrative therapists, the VSNT faculty come together to teach, demonstrate, and discuss how and why they are reshaping the ideas and practice of narrative therapy. **We accept all levels of practicing narrative therapists, Supervisors, Professors and - all former VSNT 5-day Foundations participants qualify. Questions? Please contact Robin at: narrativevancouver@gmail.com and 604-688-7860. Register here on the site.
April, 22-23 2022
BARCELONA, SPAIN - LIVE
Annual 2-day Foundations Certificate Training Intensive in Relational Interviewing with high conflict couple relationships for the Sex and Couple Therapy Program at the University of Barcelona. Subtitled couple therapy session videos and highly interactive course. Spanish translators. Contact Dr Adrian Montesano: adrianmontesano@gmail.com
April, 24-25, 2022
CASERES, SPAIN - LIVE
Annual 2-day Foundations Certificate Training Intensive in Relational Interviewing with high conflict couple relationships for the University of Extramadura Masters in Narrative Therapy Program. Subtitled couple therapy session videos from Canada, Norway and USA and highly interactive course. Spanish translators.
Contact Carlos Chimpen: masterterapianarrativa@gmail.com
May 04-06, 2022
BERGEN, NORWAY - LIVE
3rd Annual Nordic Narrative Therapy Conference
Co-sponsored by Narativ Praxis Bergen & the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy. Presenters from Canada, Denmark, Norway & USA. Worlds top narrative therapists discussing their latest practice ideas. Register and view Conference Training Schedule and Presenter Bios here on this VSNT site. Register here on this site - or in Norway at: https://narrativbergen.wixsite.com/napabe. 240 seat capacity. 75% sold. Norwegian Contacts: cecilie.kristiansen@bufetat.no or siv@askele.no.
June 03-04-05, 2022 - ONLINE
Stephen Madigan & Todd May
Narrative Therapy Informed Relational Interviewing with Conflicted Couple Relationships
Stephen first invented narrative therapy informed Relational Interviewing to offer an alternative, non-individualist, and common sense relational response for conflicted relationships being brought to Couple Therapy. VSNT philosopher Todd May has been instrumental in introducing/furthering a wide variety of new the theoretical ideas to the practice understandings of Relational Interviewing. Working together Stephen and Todd show the consistent link and coherency between their non-individualist theories with the non-individualist practice. Stephen demonstrates a wide variety of video taped sessions with conflicted couple relationships he's worked with in Canada, Norway and the USA. Questions: narrativevancouver@gmail.com or you can register here on the site.
June 17th-19th & 25th -26th, 2022 - ONLINE
Bonus 1/2 Day Followup: TBA
Foundations & Fundamentals of Narrative Therapy Practice prepares participants for practice! Teaches key narrative therapy practice fundamentals at the heart of narrative therapy through close up discussion, faculty videos and Live interviews. Foundations Level Certificate Training Course faculty include 5 world class narrative therapists, a critical race scholar and one brilliant philosopher. Questions? Please contact Robin at: narrativevancouver@gmail.com and 604-688-7860, or register here on the VSNT site.
September 09-11, 2022 - ONLINE
Stephen Madigan, David Nylund, with Todd May
Skills of Narrative Practice
Practice, practice, practice. Applied Skills for Narrative Practice certificate course is designed through all-day LIVE interactive demonstration counter-story narrative interviews. Participant's experience the faculties supervisory reflections and feedback regarding their own 'in workshop' development of narrative therapy questions and therapeutic letters.
Taught by narrative therapy supervisors Stephen Madigan & David Nylund with philosopher Todd May providing the theory behind the practice of question development. Questions: narrativevancouver@gmail.com or register here on the site.
Book Review: Narrative Therapy 2nd Edition
Stephen Madigan has done a brilliant job of conveying narrative therapy in a manner that is accessible while maintaining the richness and complexity of the concepts and practices. He seamlessly connects the theories that inform narrative therapy and the interventions the flow from those ideas. Dr. Madigan is to be admired for his commitment and passion for circulating narrative practices to the larger therapy community. Bravo!