NTI Folx Tales 2026

Registration Link: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/7dfqu2b/lp/8c261389-f215-46b3-ab30-c141c3d664b4

When:  Friday & Saturday, June 5 & 6, 2026, 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time 

Format: Live In-Person, NonProfit Center: 89 South St, Boston, MA 02111 

About: Folx Tales is a two-day, in-person gathering exploring narrative practice and community work. Participants are invited into a rich experience of narrative conversations with one another while deepening their narrative skills and exploring preferred ways of bringing the narrative worldview into their lives, communities, and professional practices.

In a time when many of us are navigating complex conversations about power, justice, and care, we believe it matters to come together in the same room to slow down, think together, and explore how narrative ideas can support ethical and relational ways of working.

Across the two days, participants will move between shared conversations and small-group experiences that invite reflection, dialogue, and practice.

Folx Tales is not a traditional conference or training. It is a place to gather and to think together about the ethical commitments that guide this work and the practices that help us sustain it.

Program Objectives:

Participants will understand narrative practices informed by the key narrative assumption that people are always responding in some way, especially in the contexts of violence and oppression. 

Participants will understand the narrative practice of outsider witnessing. 

Participants will understand the narrative practice of double listening, to support listening for agency and storying of responses, particularly those that might easily go overlooked. 

Total CE hours: 11.0

This activity has been certified by NEAFAST on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LMFT Professional Continuing Education. Certification # 214928238-B

Instructor Bio: Sarah Beh Hughes, BSW, MSc - I live and work in a small hippy town nestled in the mountains of British Columbia. My loving relationship with Narrative Therapy began over 25 years ago, as I worked and travelled with Michael White as the bookseller for Dulwich Centre Publications. I may be wrong on this, but I like to think I have attended more Michael White trainings than anyone else in the world. Well, at least in North America. I have offered workshops on narrative practices in Canada and am part of the board and faculty of Re-Authoring Teaching. I am currently writing a book tentatively called Tender Therapy. It is part memoir, part therapy ideas, and part writing prompts. I am also working to finish Stephen Gaddis's book.