Wednesday, November 25, 2026
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET | Online
Presented by Angel Yuen MSW, RSW

This interactive full-day workshop builds on foundational narrative therapy knowledge and focuses on 'unique outcomes' and scaffolding conversations as practices for supporting re-authoring. Participants will explore how seemingly small or overlooked experiences can provide openings and discover ways of developing these moments into meaningful alternative stories.

Drawing on Michael White's approach to scaffolding conversations, the workshop will focus on how practitioners can ask questions that support people to move beyond what they already know about their lives and consider new and preferred experiences of themselves.

Through stories illustrating narrative practice, reflective activities, and opportunities for practice, participants will develop and apply narrative therapy skills for discovering, exploring, and extending unique outcomes in clinical conversations.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

- Strengthen narrative therapy skills for supporting individuals re-authoring from problem stories to preferred stories

- Understand scaffolding conversations that help individuals explore new possibilities about their stories and experiences

- Practice discovering and exploring the unique outcomes in clinical conversations to create openings to stories of hopes, values, commitments, purposes and more

Audience: Social workers and allied mental health professionals who already have familiarity with narrative therapy concepts and want to strengthen their clinical application.

Presenter Bio:

Angel Yuen works as a narrative therapist and clinical supervisor in alternative-private practice in the Greater Toronto Area. She also offers tailored narrative trainings and consultation to many organizations. Angel's previous work spanning three decades included experiences in school social work, community group work, and child, youth and adult mental health settings.

As a co-founder of the Narrative Therapy Centre, Angel has facilitated several workshops locally, internationally and virtually. She is the author of the 2019 book ‘Pathways beyond despair: Re-authoring lives of young people through narrative therapy.’ and also is co-editor with Cheryl White of the 2007 book 'Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice'.

Pricing:

• OASW Members:  $130 + HST early-bird pricing ends Nov 6th (OASW member ID # required)
• Non-Members: $300 + HST 

Pricing for OLC Workshops is  per person.  If you wish to register staff members, placement students or others, please ensure each learner is registered with their full name and contact email. Each participant will receive materials and a Zoom link before the event.  OASW reserves the right to remove participants who are not registered.  

 NOTE ABOUT REGISTRATION QUESTIONS:
OASW is committed to inclusion and promoting a diverse range of identities, experiences, perspectives, and voices across all areas of the Association. As such, the registration contains some optional questions that are intended to assist us to better understand our social work community and ensure that our work is reflective of the diverse membership of OASW and our profession.

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