Cascadia Training for Professional Development

🆕BRAND-NEW! Narrative Therapy as Transformational Practice: Re-Authoring the Soul 🆕
2026-08-26 09:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
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.

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