Foundations II: Applied Skills of Narrative Practice
Narrative Therapy Supervision: Part One (18 CEC's)
Developing Narrative Therapy Questions & Therapeutic Letters
August 7-9th, 2026
Our VSNT Supervision Skills course is designed to dramatically enhance the training participant’s practice understandings regarding the ecology of the receiving context they receive client stories into.
Once this relational ecology is established supervisors move participants towards creating a coherent link between the receiving ecology and the purpose, direction, politic, intention, context, history, and relational meaning of every narrative therapy question ~ they ask.
Throughout the 3-day course legendary narrative therapy supervisors Stephen Madigan & David Nylund (each having 18,000 hrs inside the therapy room) offer ongoing and immediate live reflections and feedback regarding each participant’s questions within a supportive, safe, small group supervisory context.
Feedback from Participants
"My ability to understand and ask narrative therapy questions on a scale of 1 to 10 before the course was a low two and this course saw me progress to a high six!! All I can wonder is "Who would be least surprised I was able to achieve this level of narrative questioning?" The faculty at VSNT are so awesome!"
- Applied Skills Participant, Chicago, March 2026
"I signed up for Skills/Supervision because I have been feeling that my connection to creativity and responsiveness in the therapy room was waning and I wasn't feeling particularly 'artful' in therapy lately. I came away from the course having a very strong sense of hope that those connections, and my practice, have been renewed. Feeling connected to gratitude and hopefulness. Thank you!"
- Applied Skills Participant, Edmonton, August 2026
“ I feel so much more confident! Skills of Practice and Supervision training was challenging, pushed me beyond my therapeutic limit, and I learned a ton of new practice skills. Thanks a million!"
- Applied Skills Participant,
Los Angeles, May, 2025
"Narrative therapists writing letters to clients function less as a record or summary of a therapy session. The therapeutic letters I write are viewed as living documents that continue participating in the ongoing creation of people's lives.”
– David Rock Nylund ~ VSNT Faculty
Details:
VSNT Teaching Faculty:
Stephen Madigan (Canada), David Nylund (USA)
Location:
Classes are taught live through Zoom video conferencing
Time:
8:15 am - 3 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (Vancouver, BC)
Rates:
Professional:
$575 CAD (approx. $415 USD) + tax
Students:
$450 CAD (approx. $325 USD) + tax
Proof of student status is required upon registration
"Narrative therapists I admire most continue to painstakingly put themselves through sets and steps of arduously uncomfortable learnings – rites of passage through agony, doubt, and despair. Passages enact a primary value - to push and improve their interviewing practice skills inside the therapy room. Common to all, is a considered relational desperation to remake, initiate and continue to improve what might be possible to better serve their clients”
– Stephen Madigan ~ VSNT Faculty