Evanston Family Therapy Center

08/14/2026

Our friends at Grupo Campos Elíseos reminded today (by posting a link) that this video of a talk on Narrative Therapy with Couples that we did for marcela polanco is available on Youtube:

07/28/2026

We have one spot left for our Advanced In-Person Intensive with Jill Freedman and Gene Combs! August 12 - 16, 2026. Register now!

We are happy to offer this advanced exploration of narrative approaches face-to-face. We have designed this one-week intensive training for people who have extensive knowledge of narrative therapy (such as a year-long course or its equivalent) and have been practicing with a narrative worldview for a good while. If you fit that description and would like to more richly develop your knowledge and skills of narrative therapy we invite you to come spend these five days with us. Because we limit attendance to a small group, we can tailor this skill-building workshop to the interests and contexts of each group member.
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07/26/2026

Resisting discourses of private property:

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07/20/2026

We like Julie, and we detest the effects of neoliberalism. Kudos to Chris for sponsoring.

What if therapy has become too good at helping people adapt to conditions that should never have been accepted in the first place?

In this episode of The Radical Therapist Podcast, Chris sits down with narrative therapist, author, and educator Julie Tilsen, PhD to discuss her provocative new book, Personal Responsibility, Inc.: How Psychotherapy Turns Society's Problems into Yours. Together we examine one of the most pressing questions facing the mental health professions today: When does therapy relieve suffering, and when does it unintentionally reinforce the very systems that produce it?

Their conversation explores psychotherapy's relationship with neoliberalism, why so many social and economic problems become framed as individual pathology, and how the language of self-care, resilience, and personal responsibility can sometimes obscure questions of power, inequality, and collective life. Julie also shares how narrative therapy has informed her thinking, where she believes the field still has blind spots, and what a practice grounded in collective responsibility might actually look like.

https://chrishoffmft.podbean.com/e/the-radical-therapist-podcast-149-personal-responsibility-inc-with-julie-tilsen-phd/

06/06/2026

Join us at the 2026 International Conference of Narrative Therapy and Community Work: Discovering Resistance, Building Community in Liverpool.

The dates are July 9, 10, & 11 with pre-conference workshops on July 8. We are honored to be joining presenters from the UK and Europe to be offering a pre-conference workshop and the opening keynote: Hope and Determination in the Face of the Gathering Storm.

Hugh Fox, Anita Franklin, and the conference collective of the Institute of Narrative Therapy are planning an inspiring gathering. You can read details here: www.theint.co.uk/conference-2026/

05/09/2026

We have designed this online program over the course of two weekends to immerse you in narrative ideas and give you hands-on experience with narrative ways of working. The format is informal and highly interactive, so you will have lots of chances to practice putting the ideas into action. In addition to exercises and supervised practice, Jill and Gene will demonstrate the work through videotape and live interviews.

May 15-17 & May 29-31, 2026

Fri 2pm-5pm
Sat 10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm
Sun 2pm-5pm CST

Zoom
(link will be shared before the workshop)

03/06/2026

The editors of the Journal of Systemic Therapies are excited to announce a Special Bilingual Issue:

“Humbling English in marriage and family therapy: Practices for justice, magical realism, and care beyond resistances in our Spanish(es)”,
by Guest Editor, marcela polanco.

It is now published and available FREE online until March 11.

Please feel free to pass this news along to friends, students and , colleagues, and direct them to this url:

Journal of Systemic Therapies 44 - 3-4 table of contents

03/05/2026

From an interview David Graeber gave about Bu****it Jobs.

https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/imagining-a-world-with-no-bullsh*t-jobs/

03/05/2026

Most work is care work

03/05/2026

The world's far from right just now, but this version of this song brings me some soothing. and motivation to keep trying.

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