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Working with people who are facing Despair, Feelings of Unworthiness, and/or Suicidal Thoughts can sometimes invite worry and panic for therapists, peer workers, and other helping professionals, which can take us away from our preferred ways of being with people who are facing these difficult problems. This workshop is not about how to conduct suicide risk assessments. Rather, it invites a critical exploration of some of the taken-for-granted assumptions, practices, and discourses that shape how suicide risk assessment is commonly understood and enacted. From a narrative therapy perspective, we will examine how these ideas influence our conversations with people experiencing suicidality and consider alternative ways of responding that foreground people's own knowledges, values, skills, preferences, etc.
This workshop focuses on how we can use Narrative Therapy practices and principles to stay connected to the values and ethics we care about and bring social justice into our work with people who are facing Despair, Feelings of Unworthiness, and/or Suicidal Thoughts.
This workshop is for people who have been formally introduced to the Narrative Worldview, by previously taking NTI's "What Is Narrative Therapy?" workshop or an equivalent course or training.
The workshop will cover:
- Deconstructing dominant discourses suicide, their histories, as well as ideas about what produces safety.
- The Narrative practice of Double Listening for subordinated storylines and how we can “thicken” some of the thin threads of these subordinated stories through deconstruction, through re-membering conversations, through asking about responses.
- No one is a passive recipient of trauma/injustice. People always respond in one way or other (even if this means remaining quiet and still). These responses can reflect what a person values or cares about. Participants will have a chance to review and discuss transcripts where response based questions were used and how this made visible to the person consulting the therapist and to the therapist herself what the person was caring about, standing for and refusing to go along with.
Registration Fees:
- Early Bird Registration Rate, available until 9/301/26 — $130.00
- Regular Registration Rate, after 10/1/26 — $140.00
- Student/Senior Registration Rate — $75.00
Additional Information:
- Group Rate: We offer discounts for groups of four or more people from a single agency or organization; to register a group, email narrativetherapyinitiative@gmail.com.
- CEUs: We are applying for 5.5 CEUs for LMFTs with NEAFAST and LICSWs/LCSWs with NASW-MA. Please note it is the participant's responsibility to check with your respective licensing board to determine if these approvals meet the requirements for licensure renewal. If you need LMHC or Psychologist CEUs, we will assist you with the application process by providing you documentation of attendance and workshop information at no charge. If you are an LMFT or LICSW/LCSW and will need a CE certificate, please order one in the registration form. CE Certificates are $25.00.
- Cancellation Policy: Refunds will be given up to 14 days prior to the training minus a $25 cancellation fee. Within 14 days of the training, no refunds will be provided.
- Questions? Email NTI at narrativetherapyinitiative@gmail.com.
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