Family therapist and professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at San Diego State University. Her narrative and decolonial practice draws on Latin American feminist scholarship.

Cultural critic and author of Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering. Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine. Her keynote takes up trauma responses, narcissism, transference, and the Oedipal fantasy, and the suppression of the unconscious in behavioral therapy and the psychopharmacological turn.

Founder of California Family Institute and creator of the Cultural Architecture framework.

LCSW. Couple and family therapist in private practice, clinical supervisor, and former Family Therapy faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles. His workshop is on the craft of drawing out what couples already know about the relationship they meant to create and what gets in its way.

PhD. Associate professor at Cal State San Bernardino, where they have trained counseling and family therapy students in narrative practice for 15 years. J asks whether suicide prevention should be a professional obligation because licensing boards say so, and what it would mean to move toward accompaniment instead.

AMFT and Director of Operations at California Family Institute. His experiential workshop asks whether, after all the training and models, a therapist can still simply meet another person.

PsyD. Trained in narrative therapy at the Dulwich Centre and wrote a three-part series on narrative practice and autism for the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work. Her workshop is about refusing the maps therapy draws for neurodivergent people, because those maps were drawn by someone else.

Executive Director of New Directions for Women, one of the country's longest-running treatment centers for women and their children. Her workshop approaches recovery as relationship, storytelling, and agency rather than pathology and compliance.

AMFT at California Family Institute in Costa Mesa, where he works closely with men navigating questions of purpose, identity, and belonging. His workshop asks what narrative therapy, skilled at deconstructing grand narratives, owes people who long for a brighter future, and whether it is time to build a better myth.

Director of Sage Dance Co. Certified Reiki Master, yoga teacher, and somatic healing practitioner with over 20 years in movement arts and energy work. She leads the salsa plenary that closes Thursday in the atrium.

LMFT in private practice for 19 years who has taught narrative therapy through Dulwich Centre, Re-Authoring Teaching, and UC Berkeley Extension. His workshop shares what he read, and recordings of sessions, from a reading project begun after working with two clients at high risk for suicide.

LMFT. Narrative therapist, Pepperdine adjunct professor, and eating disorder specialist in Newport Beach. Her workshop carries forward the Anti-Anorexia/Anti-Bulimia League's view that eating disorders are not identities but voices a person can separate from and resist.

Psychotherapist and professor of psychology for 25 years, former Broadway actor, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. His workshop screens a real first session with a couple and offers a template for respectful listening, shared goals, and room for every voice.

Casey is an AMFT and Mariia an MFT trainee. Their live improv workshop replays the same scene met with anger, with curiosity, and with calm, training the therapist's most undertrained instrument: themselves.

Pam founded Narradrama and directs the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles. Kamran is a professor at Cal State LA and a drama therapist who brings Narradrama into prison classrooms. Their experiential workshop uses Narradrama to address oppression and social conditions accepted as normal, so expect to be out of your chair.

M.S., PPS-SC. Veteran school counselor and longtime apprentice of narrative therapist John Winslade. Her workshop trains schools in Undercover Anti-Bullying Teams, a restorative practice that uses peer influence to change bullying from the inside, with no blame and no forced confrontation.

Musician, therapist, and founder of Scribble, a Highland Park nonprofit where sliding-scale therapy happens alongside live shows, breathwork, and overdose prevention training.

Artist behind The Library of Repair, a participatory textile installation on the space between what was and what is not yet. Visitors stitch, weave, and mend into a communal archive, on the idea that repair integrates damage rather than erasing it.