You will get immediate access to the Applied Narrative Intelligence certification cohort including weekly calls discussing the core content. Your monthly ENP calls will begin after your in-person training experience. Three calls, one per month.

The bulk of your certification process will happen live, together, in person in Nashville, TN. After checkout you will choose which 3-day training experience you want to attend. These training days will include experiential practice work along with hands-on training sessions with facilitation tools and techniques. Lodging and meals not included.

Experiential Narrative Practice uses image, movement, space, and action to help individuals and groups explore and transform the stories shaping their lives. Rather than relying solely on conversation, experiential methods externalize internal experiences, allowing people to see, feel, and shift their stories in real time.

While traditional narrative work often focuses on talking about a story, Experiential Narrative Practice invites people to step into their stories physically, creatively, and relationally. It’s less about retelling the past and more about experiencing possibilities for change.

No. Although experiential methods often feel playful or creative, they are structured and intentional. Every exercise is designed to surface insights, embody shifts, and move participants toward clarity, healing, or transformation.

We are not doing art therapy or freeform play—we are using structured experiential methods to catalyze story movement.

No. This certification is designed for a broad range of professionals—coaches, facilitators, leaders, program directors, educators, and anyone whose work involves helping others move from stuckness to clarity.

We do cover ethical guidelines and referral best practices to ensure participants use these methods responsibly.

We teach you how to assess when experiential work is appropriate and when a situation may require professional clinical support.

We focus on strengthening participant agency, consent, and containment, and we emphasize that practitioners must stay within their scope of practice. Istoria’s Level 3 coaching certification covers more trauma-informed approaches and interventions.

You’ll learn dynamic tools like spectrograms, floor checks, story sculptures, role-play, surplus reality enactments, creative externalizations (like art or symbolic objects), and structured story circles.

You’ll practice facilitating these tools in ways that help individuals and groups unlock clarity, connection, and forward momentum.

Yes. Level 2 is a hybrid learning cohort including an immersive, in-person, 3-day training experience. You will learn by doing—practicing facilitation, participating in exercises, debriefing experiences, and reflecting on your growth as a practitioner.

Yes. The tools you’ll learn are flexible and adaptable.

You’ll leave with the skills to apply them in one-on-one coaching, small group work, team facilitation, retreats, and leadership development settings.

The world needs leaders, coaches, and facilitators who can move beyond words and create transformational experiences. Every day you delay learning these methods is a day you leave some of your greatest tools for change untapped.

Invest now to build a practice that is more embodied, more impactful, and more aligned with the future of transformational work.