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Narrative Therapy II
Date: Nov 7, 2025
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-4:00pm (PST)
CEU: 6 hours
Location: Virtual – Zoom session
Cost: $180
Audience:
This second-level course is open to social workers, nurses, counsellors, mental health professionals, students and anyone working in the human services field who have a foundational understanding of Narrative Therapy and want to continue developing and deepening their skills. This workshop will build upon foundational knowledge of Narrative Therapy but completion of Narrative Therapy I is not required.
Description:
Building on the foundational principles of narrative practice, this session will focus specifically on deep and therapeutically meaningful reauthoring conversations - a central practice in Narrative Therapy that supports people to renegotiate their relationship to problem identities and to connect with their values, hopes, competencies and abilities. This includes a deepening of the skills of externalizing and deconstruction of oppressive forces acting on the individual.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in experiential learning focused on the application of clinical skills, with the intention of bringing reauthoring conversations to life.
Learning objectives:
- Develop a deeper understanding of the key theoretical and ethical considerations that inform Narrative Therapy with a focus on the reauthoring process.
- Understand and apply skills in developing alternative storylines through therapeutic conversations using unique outcome, landscape of action and landscape of identity questions.
- Evaluate how to integrate reauthoring conversations into the learner’s own practice, with attention to both personal and systemic narratives.
Mental Health and Substance Use – Level 1
- Start date: December 1, 2025
- Format: 100% online, self-paced, instructor-supported with monthly optional real-time sessions
- Duration: Two courses of approximately 30 hours of content each, with six months to complete each course from start date
- Cost: $750 per course, $1,500 for the program
Description:
Frontline workers across various sectors often lack adequate training to effectively support clients with mental health and substance use challenges. This skills gap limits their effectiveness and highlights the need for accessible, targeted training programs for a diverse workforce.
The new UBC Micro-certificate in Mental Health and Substance Use is a part-time, asynchronous, online program designed to provide learners with the foundational knowledge and core skills they need to effectively and ethically engage in frontline service provision to individuals experiencing mental health and substance use challenges in multiple service contexts.
This program was developed by clinicians with many years of experience and expertise in mental health and substance use practice. Consultations with internal and external organizations, including the First Nations House of Learning, further contributed to ensuring that the program provides a relevant, applied, and culturally-informed learning experience.
By the end of the program, you will be able to:
- Identify and assess mental health symptoms and substance use challenges at a foundational level
- Develop foundational skills and strategies for effective and ethical engagement with individuals experiencing mental health and substance use challenges
- Describe and examine the social determinants of mental health and substance use, and methods to support holistic recovery
- Apply trauma-informed, strengths-based, and anti-oppressive approaches to engagement with individuals experiencing mental health and substance use challenges
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Let us know what your learning interests are in social work, counselling, and/or therapy!
