May 1, 2026: Narrative Practices with and about Trans and Gender Expansive Experiences and Community
May 1, 2026: Narrative Practices with and about Trans and Gender Expansive Experiences and Community
Event Date:
May 1, 2026
Event Time:
1:00 pm
Event Location:
This is an ONLINE EVENT, Hosted on Zoom, Eastern Time CANADA US
Event Description
Narrative Practices with and about Trans and
Gender Expansive Experiences and Community'
Facilitated by Tiffany Sostar
1:00 to 4:00 PM EDT (Toronto)
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Early rate $65 until April 6, 2026
Regular rate $80 thereafter
Gender expansive is an umbrella term for individuals whose gender identity or expression expands beyond traditional, binary, or cultural norms. It describes a flexible, non-conforming, or fluid experience of gender—including, but not limited to, non-binary, transgender, or gender-fluid identities.
In this 3-hour workshop, Tiffany Sostar (they/them) will introduce narrative ideas and practices that are particularly useful in conversations with and about trans and gender expansive experiences and community. Thinking critically about how we approach therapeutic conversations about gender expansive experience is important and assists practitioners in resisting invitations to contribute to harm, and to stand in solidarity with trans and gender expansive community.
This training will:
- provide an introduction to some of Narrative Therapy’s foundational ethics, and how these can inform work with and about trans community members
- deconstruct some dominant discourses about gender, and provide useful suggestions for critically engaging with taken-for-granted ideas about gender
- offer skills for deconstructing discourse in therapeutic conversations with gender expansive community members and their families
- share skills for helping gender expansive communities members and their families connect to preferred stories and a sense of agency and possibility
About Tiffany Sostar (they/them)
Tiffany Sostar is a narrative therapist and community worker living as an uninvited guest on Treaty 7 land (in Calgary, Alberta, Canada). They love collective narrative practice and documentation, and are interested in the ways collective narrative practice overlaps and intersects with legacies of queer and feminist zine culture. They graduated from the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work program in 2018 and enjoy being an ongoing part of the program as a faculty member and subject designer in Canvas. Tiffany is queer, non-binary, non-monogamous, and disabled, living in lots of liminal spaces, and interested in working in these spaces.
Recently, as hostility towards the trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities continued to escalate, Tiffany’s community lost two cherished trans community members, Bekett and Theda. For the next long while, they are undertaking a series of community work projects responding to these losses and hoping to create a body of narrative responses in support of trans lives.
Certificates of Training can be requested at the end of the online workshop and will state 3 hours of narrative therapy training. Certificates can be used to qualify for eligibility for continuing education credits from professional colleges and licensing boards. Please contact your own college or association to confirm requirements.
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Cancellations will be accepted if requested at least 14 days prior to the event via email to contact@narrativetherapycentre.com. A cancellation fee of $10 will be deducted from the amount to be refunded.
We regret that a refund cannot be offered after the cancellation date, but a colleague may be substituted for attendance.