BRAND-NEW!
Narrative Therapy as Transformational Practice: Re-Authoring the Soul
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $190.00
Narrative therapy invites us to view problems as separate from people and identity as something shaped through story, culture, and relationship. This day-long continuing education training offers clinicians a deep dive into the philosophical foundations and clinical applications of narrative therapy, including externalization, mapping the influence of the problem, re-authoring conversations, and definitional ceremonies. Participants will explore how dominant cultural narratives around pathology, productivity, trauma, and identity influence both clients and clinicians — and how narrative practices can gently disrupt those scripts.
This training is highly experiential. Clinicians will leave with immediately usable interventions, sample language for sessions, and a deeper awareness of how their own professional identities are shaped by story. The emphasis throughout the day is on practical skill-building, relational witnessing, and reclaiming therapeutic conversations as spaces of possibility, agency, and meaning-making.
Workshop Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe the philosophical foundations of narrative therapy, including social constructionism, externalization, and the role of power in shaping identity narratives.
- Demonstrate the use of externalizing language to separate clients from problem-saturated stories in clinical conversations.
- Apply re-authoring techniques to help clients identify unique outcomes and develop preferred identity narratives.
- Facilitate at least one structured experiential narrative intervention (e.g., definitional ceremony, therapeutic letter writing, or story-mapping exercise).
- Analyze how cultural, systemic, and contextual factors influence dominant narratives impacting clients’ lives.
- Integrate narrative practices into their existing clinical orientation while maintaining ethical and culturally responsive care.