Question Symposium - Part I
An Online Professional Development Event
For Narrative Therapists & Other Helpers
Who Ask Lots of Questions
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Facilitated by Scott Erickson
For professional helpers who use questions as a primary tool, it can be valuable to connect with other professionals to consider, interrogate and practice our questioning practice.
June 17, 2026, 10:00 am–1:00 pm CDT
(3:00–6:00 pm UTC) • online via Zoom
This event follows the meaning of “symposium” as an event centred on a specific, focused topic that opens with a brief presentation or reflection, followed by a highly engaged and interactive facilitated discussion meant to share, increase, and co-develop knowledge and skills in a spirit of robust collective inquiry.
The opening presentation/reflection will focus on:
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the role of questions in therapy
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question generation/invention
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how merit or value in questions may be constructed (or deconstructed)
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professional identity and community related to question asking.
This will lead into co-researching these ideas together using narrative practices to guide discussion. All who attend will get to consider their professional identity as a question inventor and asker, and to practice generating and asking questions within supportively positioned small groups. We will wrap up with a sneak preview of a follow-up symposium/workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Pre-Approval has been applied for with the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (CSPA). Participants will be updated when CSPA responds about granting CEC approval.
PLEASE NOTE: Background in narrative therapy or in other post-modern, collaborative, anti-oppressive therapies that take up a non-expert position and ask lots of questions will help to get the most from this event. This is not a prerequisite to attend, but there will be no basic instruction around these concepts. A good starting resource is:
Scott Erickson is a narrative therapist, mental performance consultant, and workshop facilitator/speaker based in Winnipeg, Canada, in Treaty One Territory. Dating back from his days training and supervising summer camp counsellors, Scott loves to bring caring professionals together to co-research, reflect on, and practice their important work. He has continued this passion by coordinating and hosting a practice/discussion group for narrative therapists in Winnipeg for over 20 years, as well as offering training workshops and group facilitation for psychotherapists, health care workers, educators, community groups, athletes, artists, parents, and many others.