Five Day Certificate Program in Narrative Therapy

The ethics of questioning, collaborative therapist posture, and guiding principles of Narrative Therapy.

Students will learn how to:

• lower client arousal
• question for significant detail
• generate collaboration. 

Understanding the person's context, concerns, and values to collaboratively identify the desired change.

Students will learn how to:

• listen for values hidden in complaints
• strengthen motivation for change
• effectively shift the client's relationship to the problem and it's effects

Exploring the sources of difficulty, and detailing the preferred outcome.

Students will learn how to:

• use questions to unpack assumptions and social scripts
• develop histories of previous success
• find transferrable skills useful for the current change project.​

Developing practices that engage and enlist significant others.

Students will learn how to:

• manage sessions with multiple people
• use reflective practices to generate hope
• use in-session note-taking to support the development of skills and preferred outcomes.

Supporting gains and sustaining practices.

Students will learn how to:

• use documents to celebrate and support the person's enacted change
• use summary effectively to recognize movement over time
• develop action plans for change maintenance.