Other Offerings
EFTC faculty frequently teach workshops, participate in conferences, and work on other projects put on by other organizations around the world.
Dates
2026
Supporting Resistance, Building Community: Hope and Sustenance in these Difficult Times With Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
Zoom | February 11, 2026
Organization: Taos Institute
Details | Register Here
Narrative Therapy with Couples
Zoom | March 6, 2026 | 11 - 12pm CST
Organization: SDSU Spanglish Decolonial Healing Project
Join us for a dive into using narrative therapy in work with couples.
The Narrative Worldview and Some Associated Practices
Graz, Austria | April 9, 10, & 11, 2026
Salzburg, Austria | April 16, 17, & 18, 2026
The narrative worldview influences the way we view people, problems and possibilities. In these 3 days we will immerse ourselves in exploring some of the ideas forming this worldview and engage in some of the practices it supports. The practices will include careful and attentive listening, witnessing and positioning postures that are particularly useful in work with families, re-membering lost relationships, and questions to help us make visible the values that are absent but implicit in problem descriptions. This will be an interactive workshop, featuring examples of the work and exercises to engage with the practices.
Introduction to Social Discourses and their Effects
Vienna, Austria | April 24 & 25, 2026
This seminar will focus on the worldview and ethics of narrative therapy, especially as it applies to teaching in training institutions.
Topics will include teaching about social justice and ethics, raising awareness of issues of power and privilege and marginalization, and how we can take care to involve students in questions of social justice. This seminar is designed for people teaching therapy or those who have experience with narrative therapy.
Listening, Witnessing & Working with Relationships: Narrative Therapy with Couples and Families
Dublin, Ireland | May 1 & 2, 2026
Our family and couple relationships both shape and are shaped by stories. Narrative therapy offers the possibility for members of a family or couple to hear the meanings other family members make of particular events and together to make new meanings. It offers a context for alternative stories to be told and heard. When people immerse themselves in these alternative stories, their experience changes.
In this workshop we will describe ways to structure therapy conversations so that they offer the possibility of family members really hearing and understanding each other. We will explore how problems are supported by larger cultural narratives or discourses and illustrate using questions to deconstruct these discourses and problem stories. We will describe how “double listening” helps us understand problems and hear what lies outside of them. We will focus on the “absent but implicit”— the desires, hopes, and treasured ways of being that are absent from people’s description of their experience, but are nonetheless implied by it. The process of questioning the absent but implicit helps family and couple members share important descriptions of treasured or cherished values, hopes, and intentions that the problems have been obscuring. Because it changes the tone of therapy conversations in ways that make it easier for people to fully participate, this process is particularly useful in working with couples and families. We will practice questions that help people tell and thicken preferred stories. And also, we will consider how approaching identity as a project that we pursue in relationship offers the possibility of asking questions about who people get to become in particular relationships and how partners and family members contribute to each other’s identities.
This will be an interactive workshop with opportunity for participants to engage with the ideas.
Discovering Resistance, Building Community
Liverpool, U.K. | July 8-11, 2026
We will be presenting the opening keynote, plus a pre-conference workshop at the 2026 Conference of Narrative Therapy and Community Work of the Institute of Narrative Therapy. For details visit theint.co.uk.