Go Beyond Listening and Empathizing. Learn How to Create a Space That Invites Clients to Speak on Behalf of Their Own Healing.
Reimagining Multiculturalism:
A Contemporary Narrative ApproachÂ
with Travis Heath, PhD
3-Volume Online Course - Only $129 USD
Renowned Narrative Therapy expert, Travis Heath, demonstrates processes and techniques for exploring the dominant stories that have shaped your clientsâ lives and together co-author counter stories that align them with their core values and preferred identities.
In his work with Vinodha, Beverly and Ian, educator and clinician Travis Heath demonstrates a unique blend of traditional and contemporary Narrative Therapy techniques that prioritize people over problems. Youâll learn how to explore the dominant stories that have shaped your clients' lives, co-author powerful counter stories that connect clients to more than just their individual selves, and encourage clients to live a life that's more aligned with their preferred identities. Discover an approach that quickly gets to the heart of who your clients are and what brings them into the room.
This self-paced online course features four sessions with three clients, rich discussions and commentaries for behind-the-scenes insight, and downloadable resources to reinforce learning and promote lateral thinking.
Help Clients Deconstruct the Problem-Saturated Stories in Their Lives and Create Narratives of Strength and Hope
Unlimited Lifetime Access. Start Anytime. Study at Your Own Pace.
Only $129 USD
For individual use only; not intended for shared use, teaching or training. Are you an educator or clinical director? Learn how to incorporate our resources into your courses and trainings. Contact [email protected] or call 1-800-577-4762.
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Learn How To
Shift the therapeutic conversation from symptoms and suffering to one of strengths and resilience
Craft questions and conversations that privilege the clientâs own language and lead to deeper understanding
Use Narrative techniques to align clients more fully with their core values and preferred identities
Develop stories that challenge repressive systems and give clients agency in their relationships to those systems
Create a culturally democratic space that honors heritage and allows clients to speak on behalf of their own healing
Deconstruct problem-saturated stories, and examine how clientâs responses to problems may or may not serve them
Only $129 USD
5+ hours of video featuring 3 clients ⢠5.5 CEs ⢠Supplemental Resources
For individual use only; not intended for shared use, teaching or training.
To learn more about multi-user solutions contact [email protected] or call 1-800-577-4762.
David Epston
co-originator of Narrative Therapy with Michael White
âIt is inspiring to watch Travis leading inquiries in to what he refers to as 'the foundations and strength of their moral character'. He eloquently demonstrates how he comes to know people as distinct from the Problems that challenge them. I believe this to be unique to contemporary Narrative Therapy practice.â
Thomas Carlson, PhD, LMFT
Professor & Branch Director, Alliant International University-San Diego; Editor, Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy
âIf you are tired of âtherapy as usualâ and its ever increasing scrutiny and adoration of all things self: self-love, self-compassion, self-worth, self-care, etc., look no further. In this video series, Dr. Travis Heath demonstrates how contemporary narrative therapy can help people escape from the pathologizing ways of thinking and relating to themselves, their lives, and the lives of others. Additionally, Dr. Heath challenges common ideas and approaches to multiculturalism and expertly demonstrates the decolonizing aims of narrative therapy.â
marcela polanco, PhD, Social worker
Professor, San Diego State University
âTravis Heath reinvents ethnocentric, mainstream therapy. He rebels against manualized, interventionist, and normalizing therapies. Travis engages therapy from an spirited ethics that materializes through intentional storytellings. He facilitates a transformative conversational partnership with people as a context for weaving stories of healing, beginning with people's narratives about their moral character, and their responses to racisms and discriminations.â
Sarah Ross, phd
Core Faculty, University of Phoenix
âViewing Beverlyâs story outside the lens of presenting problems allowed Heath to better understand her as an individual. This included broaching race, after the client discussed it, as part of her story and the role it played in her worldview/perception of herself. As therapists, I find it important from a multiculturally competent perspective to understand clients based on their interactions and experiences with the world around them. This can be accomplished through the approach demonstrated in this volume of the course.â
Carlos M. Del Rio, PhD
 Associate Professor, Bellevue University
âThese interventions come at a time when âtherapyâ may need to be rescued from quick fixes, problem-solving, coaching, advising, validating, or helping clients according to inchoate conflations of what happens in therapeutic encounters. By focusing instead on âthe pillars that make up who they (clients) truly are.â Travis Heathâs reimagining multiculturalism through Contemporary Narrative Therapy techniques will be useful for educators and clinicians alike. This work brings back Carl Rogersâ unique sense of empathy in a rapidly changing world.â
yancy l. cruz
Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University
âTravis Heath brings a multicultural perspective to his sessions. By doing so, he is able to work with clients to connect with their ancestorial heritage â including outstanding discussions about racism and how it influences a person's behaviors â to ultimately tie in self-reflection with an emphasis on the importance of asking ourselves how our backgrounds, and the stories we tell, contribute to our mental health. This volume was thought-provoking, informative, and very special to as a therapist and educator. It will benefit so many!â
Diana Mccullough, MS, Social worker
Adjunct Professor, Methodist University; Greater Vision Counseling and Consulting, pllc
âEach case study emphasized the importance of Narrative Therapy and how allowing clients to âtell their storyâ is beneficial â for both them and their therapist â in understanding the root of who they are. Each session highlighted the client's strengths, resources, and past successes. Unlike traditional models, this form of therapy provides a sense of agency and self-determination, as we see client and therapist working collaboratively to explore and re-author their narratives. The client demonstrations showcase how therapists can empower clients by helping them reframe their stories.â
"Stories are the how we make sense of ourselves, the world, and our sense of ourselves in the world. By leaning into our clientsâ stories, we can better understand the systems impacting them, and gain a richer understanding of the strengths they can recruit when facing challenges."
~Travis Heath, PhD
Course Curriculum
VOLUME 1:Â Vinodha
Vinodha is a successful single mom of Indian descent whose complicated past has left her feeling unseen and uprooted. Heath demonstrates the power of stories to quickly get at the heart of who your client is and what brings them to the room. Youâll learn how to co-author powerful counter stories that connect clients to more than just their individual selves, and open pathways for new understanding. In this volume you'll learn how to...
- Use strengths of moral character inquiries to identify preferred identities and challenges
- Trace the impact of themes such as colonialism and capitalism
- Engage with curiosity and to identify strengths, cultural heritage and other resources
- Cultivate counter stories that move clients closer to who they want to be
VOLUME 2: Beverly
Beverly, whose motto for life is âto thine own self be true,â is a retired African American woman who grew up in New York during the days of racial segregation. By questioning the deeply-woven stories society tells about what it means to be Black, and exploring the narratives Beverly shares, Heath helps Beverly co-author powerful counter stories of courage, resilience and a steadfast belief in who she is at her core. In this volume, Heath will show you how to:
- Invite clients to challenge dominant stories about themselves and their lives
- Use stories to enrich your understanding of client strengths and challenges
- Rethink what you write in your session notes and how you use them in session
- Bring yourself fully into the therapeutic relationshipÂ
VOLUME 3: Ian
Ian is a former rugby player-turned-sports psychologist whose career as a professional athlete was derailed by catastrophic health-related setbacks. Over the course of two sessions, youâll see how Heath blends contemporary and traditional Narrative Therapy techniques to co-author moving counter stories of strength and resilience. Through an unconventional use of session notes, creative plays on language, and unabashed engagement, Heath demonstrates how therapists can help clients redefine what's possible by pushing beyond the stories that the world tells about who they are and who they should be. In this video, you'll learn to
- Examine the stories clients tell about themselves and the world tells about them
- Become an active participant in the therapeutic process
- Engage with interest and creativity to identify factors that impact clientsâ identity
- Co-author counter stories with clients to move them closer to who they want to be Â
What You Get in This Course
- 5+ hours of videos featuring clinical sessions with 3 real clients
- Voiceover commentaries and discussions for behind-the-scenes insight
- Supplemental resources to consolidate learning and promote lateral thinking
- Downloadable transcripts of all videos
- 5.5Â CE credits available for licensed professionals
- Instant lifetime access to all course materials
Help Clients Create New Frameworks for Overcoming Old Challenges
Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach
5+ hours of video featuring 3 clients ⢠5.5 CE Credits ⢠Supplemental Resources
Only $129 USD
For individual use only; not intended for shared use, teaching or training. Are you an educator or clinical director? Learn how to incorporate our resources into your courses and trainings. Contact [email protected] or call 1-800-577-4762.
âAs a witness to my clientsâ stories, I think it's important to share my reactions. I'm reminded here of something David Epston once said, âI'm trying to be a person. I'm not trying to impersonate a professional person.â My hope is that by understanding how I feel moved by their stories, they can begin to witness themselves in new ways.â
~Travis Heath, PhD
About Travis Heath, PhD
Travis Heath, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and has been in community practice for nearly two decades. His scholarship has included looking at shifting from a multicultural approach to counseling to one of cultural democracy that invites people to heal in mediums that are culturally near. Other writings have focused on the use of rap music in narrative therapy, working with persons entangled in the criminal injustice system in ways that maintain their dignity, narrative practice stories as pedagogy, and a co-created questioning practice called reunion questions. He is co-author, with David Epston and Tom Carlson, of the first book on Contemporary Narrative Therapy released in June 2022 entitled, âReimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography.â He has presented his work in 10 countries to date.
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