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Rather than focusing on methods, it examines how therapeutic conversations are
shaped by the therapist’s orientation to the person, to story, and to the effects of
their actions.
Clinical work will be engaged through transcripts, live interviews, and therapeutic
documents, including letters and poems that extend conversations beyond the
session.
A Map of Client Authorship
This training does not offer a map of what the therapist should do.
Many approaches organize practice around therapist action or technique. These
contributions are significant. At times, however, they leave less clearly articulated
how authorship becomes available to the person themselves.
Here, we begin elsewhere.
We offer a map of client authorship—one that integrates practice and moral
inquiry while focusing on how people participate in shaping their lives.
This map traces a movement:
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from global descriptions where authorship is suspended
to experience-near accounts of what a person is up against
to the emergence of their own actions and responses
to an explicit engagement with values and moral positioning
to deliberate, ethical authorship taken up on purpose
The task of therapy, then, is not to move through steps, but to participate in
conversations that make authorship visible, ethically grounded, and available to
be taken up on purpose.
In this training, participants will be invited to:
• Examine how their understanding of the person shapes clinical decisions
• Engage deeply with clinical material, including transcripts and live
demonstrations
Narrative Therapy News and Training Opportunities
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, May 2026 Release
www.journalnft.com
