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Narrative Therapy News and Training Opportunities
Trainings and Workshops
3rd Annual Contemporary Narrative Therapy Conference,
November 5th – 7th, 2026, San Diego, CA
What is a good question – and what does it do?
Narrative therapy has always taken questions seriously—not as techniques, but as
acts with consequences. CNTC 2026 opens once again with a keynote by David
Epston (presenting from New Zealand over Zoom), an honor that reflects a
continuing conversation at the heart of narrative practice. Together with Michael
White, David has long argued that narrative therapy relies more than any other
therapy on the art of asking questions—questions of literary and ethical merit
that invite people into what they do not yet know but may come to know. This
year9s theme draws on Michel Foucault9s enduring provocation:
