Stephen Madigan MSW, MSc, PhD
Director of VSNT Training
Narrative Therapy
1st, 2nd, & 3rd 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 set documented using an eight person film team of Stephen's live therapy work.
In 2019 the APA published the Second Edition of Narrative Therapy (ranked #2 on the top ten psychotherapy training books - the DSM-V ranked 5th. Ha!). This new text richly explores the amazing world wide renaissance in narrative therapy and guides the reader towards al the best exciting new theoretical practice developments shaping the future of our practice.
**Please note: APA Contract signed for Third Edition
Coming March 2024 (:
Michael White and Stephen Madigan
Adelaide Australia,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
2022~2023
Fall 2022
November 18/19/20, 2022 + (December 03/04, 2022, January 07/08, 2023, February 11/12, 2023, March 11/12, 2023, April 1/2, 2023 +) (Due to immersion course design and purpose we have only a limited registration)
NARRATIVE THERAPY SUPERVISION CROSS TRAINING CERTIFICATE IMMERSION COURSE (Designed for our next generation!)
Stephen and selected VSNT Faculty members teach this new Cross Training Supervision course they have purposefully designed to fundamentally change a participants therapeutic flexibility, agility, ability skill, cleverness, confidence, and curiosity by continually altering and challenging the supervisee’s theoretical, emotional, political, and narrative practice learning experience.** PLEASE NOTE: Individual Supervisee transcript supervision dates assigned by their individually assigned VSNT faculty supervisor (February to April 2023)
Supervision Weekend Two December 03/04, 2022. NARRATIVE THERAPY SUPERVISION CROSS TRAINING CERTIFICATE IMMERSION COURSE (Designed for our next generation!)
NARRATIVE THERAPY ADVANCED SKILLS OF PRACTICE TRAINING (December 2022 + 2023 dates)
Weekend One: December 9-10, 2022 (Sold Out)
Skills of Practice - Lost Art of Narrative Family Therapy:
Working with Children,Youth and Families + Narrative Therapy with Eating Disorders
Christine Dennstedt PhD, Stephen Madigan PhD, David Nylund PhD + Anti-anorexia League insider live consultation
2023
NARRATIVE THERAPY SUPERVISION CROSS TRAINING CERTIFICATE IMMERSION COURSE (Designed for our next generation!)
Weekend Three: January 07/08, 2023, Weekend Four February 11/12, 2023,
Weekend Five March 11/12, 2023, Weekend six April 1/2, 2023 +
Advanced Weekend Two: January 28-29, 2023
NARRATIVE THERAPY ADVANCED SKILLS OF PRACTICE TRAINING
Skills of Practice - Narrative Therapy informed Relational Interviewing with Couples
Helene Grau Kristensen MA, Stephen Madigan PhD, Todd May PhD
Advanced Weekend Three: February 4-5, 2023
NARRATIVE THERAPY ADVANCED SKILLS OF PRACTICE TRAINING
Skills of Practice - Narrative Therapy, Neurobiology, Trauma, and the Body.
Rosa Arteaga MA & Jeff Zimmerman PhD
February 17-19 &25-26, 2023 - (Sold Out on January 17, 2023)
Bonus 1/2 Day Followup: March 10, 2023
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 20-21, 2023 LIVE
Trondheim, Norway
LIVE Supervision ongoing course 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 23-24 LIVE
Stavanger, Norway
Two-day Foundations & Fundamentals of Narrative Therapy Practice of key narrative therapy practice fundamentals. Stephen teaches through close up discussion, individual, couple and family therapy videos and Live interviews. Please contact: Hege Helliesen Hadland at hegehelliesen.hadland@bufetat.no
March 29-30, 2023
CASERES, SPAIN
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
April, 21-22, 2023
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
May, 13-14, 2023 (60% sold)
Foundations - Level Two: Applied Skills Of Narrative Practice
Developing Narrative Therapy Questions and Therapeutic Letters Certificate.
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. Questions: narrativevancouver@gmail.com or register here on the site.
May 26-28 & June 3-4, 2023 - (50% sold)
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.
August 17-20 2023
CALGARY, CANADA - LIVE
“Bringing Forth Generativities Within Relational Disquiet” Karl Tomm and the Calgary Family Therapy Centre 50th AnniversaryConference. Stephen invited to present a 3 hour workshop (Thursday) and a keynote address (Saturday). For information: debbie.baker@familytherapy.org
September 14-15, 2023 - LIVE
Oslo, Norway (The Institute for Active Psychotherapy)
Two-day Foundations of Narrative Therapy Practice in narrative therapy informed Couple Therapy. Stephen teaches through close up discussion, slides, and numerous couple therapy videos from Canada & Norway.
Please contact: Randi Skjerve: randi.skjerve@gmail.com
September (Dates TBA) LIVE
Stavanger, Norway
Part 2. Two-day narrative therapy informed Relational Interviewing with Couples. Stephen teaches through close up discussion, slides, and numerous couple therapy videos from Canada & Norway. Please contact: Hege Helliesen Hadland at hegehelliesen.hadland@bufetat.no
September (Dates TBA) - LIVE
Trondheim, Norway
LIVE Supervision ongoing course 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.
October 27-29 - LIVE
Vancouver, Canada
TC 17 - The BIG Narrative Therapy Conference
The Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy is inspired to bring our community the very best narrative therapy thinkers and therapists from across the world ~ LIVE! All practice based workshops are skill focused and designed to demonstrate (with videos and unaltered transcripts) the latest developments in narrative therapy theory and practice with children, families, couple relationships, groups, and communities. Questions? Please contact Robin at: narrativevancouver@gmail.com and 604-688-7860, or register here on the VSNT site.