Diploma in Narrative Practices 2025 (Online)
Applications close on 31st October 2024.
Applications for Diploma in Narrative Practices 2025 (Online) close on 31st October 2024.
You can read more details about the diploma on our website - https://www.narrativepracticesindia.com/online-diploma-in-narrative-practices-2025
The program starts in February 2025 and is spread over 10 months. The learning will be happening through 6 explorations, 12 small group supervisions, 6 co-learning sessions and 6 peer support sessions.
Some testimonials from our past participants:
“I am a PhD scholar, and my method of research is narrative inquiry. I applied to narrative practices last year when I saw someone's post on my Instagram seeking knowledge regarding the method and practice part of it. The fee was the first obstacle for me, but I am grateful that despite its high fees, the seats in the course are also reserved for marginalized groups on a full scholarship basis through which I got in. Also, I was only expecting to learn about the method of narrative practices, but the course expectations for me were raised during the introduction class only. I was amazed that even in online mode, the faculty tried to engage us in many creative ways without making us feel saturated or exhausted sitting in front of our laptop screens for long hours. In fact, this is the first course during which I used to wait for the next explorations and learnings. Narrative practices connected deeply with me, and my yearning to learn about the method went beyond my perspective to see things in daily life. It gave me a lens through which to understand the other perspective, the multiple stories and people's lives in a holistic perspective and how people are always responding. Even though the space is designed from the perspective of mental health professionals, it provides a scope to work with people and communities from all other areas. The learnings resonated with me a lot because the gentleness, warmth, resistance, radical love, and care that the space provides is what I also apply in my work related to education, teaching, social justice etc., where everything personal is also part of the profession. The space provided me with a nuanced perspective, pedagogy and language to approach and engage with people and communities. Sometimes I wonder how someone can be so thoughtful because of the dedication and thoughtfulness with which the course was designed made everyone feels validated and belonged. Though I have always sat with deep reflections during the explorations and sometimes tried to hold so much of my excitement as the learning unfolded during the course. However, being an introverted personality, the supervision group for me was another validation as I could easily share my thoughts in the smaller group. The space felt like large support with everyone being so gentle, warm and caring. This is one of a kind course in which I enrolled, and feel grateful forever. Will make sure to lock all these memories in a treasure box which whenever i visit back will be cherished.”
- 2022 diploma participant Preeti
“When I applied for the South Asian Diploma in Narrative Practices, I was looking at skill development, and professional growth; and by the end of 9 months, I found myself deep in the middle of compassion, love, empathy for myself, my community, and everyone who was a part of this journey. I have never been a part of a classroom where everyone, from the trainers to the students are guided so immensely by the ethic of love; love was the biggest guiding force, in a way that it has never been earlier. Every exploration, supervision, and colearning circle allowed me to have access to conversations which not only helped me become a more compassionate person, but also allowed me to unlearn biases gently, reflect upon my own ideas of the world, and view everything around me with an added layer of curiosity. I am grateful to this place, and every person who was a part of this journey for making me integrate my humanness into my therapy practice, with so much love and warmth.”
- 2022 diploma participant Utkarsha Jagga
“I did the online diploma course with Narrative Practices India last year and it was honestly one of the best things I did. It was a beautifully spaced out exploration of narrative concepts, frameworks and tools that are not only interesting but genuinely pushed the boundaries of my thinking. I particularly enjoyed the balance between 121 breakout practices, group work, long meandering conversations and supervisions. I am not a mental health professional myself (I work in the non profit space) and, yet, I still found this course useful on a professional and personal level. I am able to apply the maps to my group facilitation work as well as my transformative justice work. I also use some of the questioning flows in my personal interactions too. This year, I participated in an ongoing practice group to keep the learnings alive. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in exploring how to support people without making them the problem, situating the work in a nuanced understanding of the world around us. I also want to say that the facilitators are incredible - all of them bring a unique vibe and expertise to that space which I loved!”
- 2021 diploma participant Nishma Jethwa
“The Narrative Practices course has been such an enriching journey for me these past 10 months since we started in January of 2022. I use the word journey as a metaphor because it feels like I boarded a train with fellow passengers all travelling together to a common destination. Using different maps to help navigate the journey so we don’t lose our way. Traversing through different landscapes, looking at what’s passing by with very different lenses. Seeing things we have never seen before. Bringing back awe, wonder, warmth and curiosity into our lives. Qualities that we might have lost as adults along the way. That has been in essence my personal journey. In my practice, the deep dive into reflections and the different maps have made the therapeutic process more immersive. The kind of questions that scaffold the maps also make me question my own stance, apart from inviting clients into this exciting new landscape. The focus on being ‘decentred yet influential’ as a therapist has really stayed with me. And I see how it helps restore personal agency to clients and is such an empowering process. It has also helped with opening new doors of enquiry by keenly paying attention to preferred states, ‘sparkling moments’ and multiple stories. It really restores hope for me personally and hold that hope for my clients as well. Needless to say all the facilitators did a great job of holding space and enabling such reflections. I have been a part of different trainings and other courses, but this was very different in many ways. The kind of warmth and love that we all felt, the way the skills were taught, the safe spaces both in large group, small group and supervision groups, will all stay with me. The co-learning circles too were hugely inspiring and the learnings from all of these groups were invaluable.”
- 2022 diploma participant Sukanya S
“As a student of psychology from Nepal, I had always struggled to find coherence with the theories and methods developed in cultural contexts vastly different from ours and always wondered what it would be like to dive deeper into exploring the vistas of mental health from a more rooted context. And the South Asian Diploma in Narrative Practices was just that and so much more. The 9 months of exploration felt like undergoing a transformation within myself and my approach to the world around me in the gentlest of manner possible - like a fetus being prepared to transform as a human in the warmth of a womb.The transformation happened in a steady pace through explorations, supervisions and co-learning circles that helped me explore the world and myself through the lens of hope, love and warmth. I have immensely enjoyed absorbing ideas explored in the classes and sitting with them ever since. It’s wonderful how the explorations are so well grounded and how malleable the ideas are. Throughout these 9 months, I have witnessed how beautifully narrative practices molds itself in different identities, contexts, communities and amplifies hope and wonderfulness all around. It surely has prepared me to be a softer, warmer, trusting and loving mental health practitioner. I have so much to be grateful for the past 9 months, especially all the facilitators of NPI and my fellow participants who made every moment such a bliss. Being a person who has been on the receiving side of mental health help for quite some time now, it makes me feel safe and wonderful that more people every year are getting trained in this practice. Being a part of this diploma has been one of the best decisions of my life, you are just one application away to make it yours too!”
- 2022 participant Nishma Gautam