We do not. Many of our participants are in ministry and as such, we strive to make it accessible and affordable. In fact, it is less than half comparable Storywork trainings. We do offer payment plans and are happy to discuss something that would work for you.

1. On-demand course material includes 13 modules of video teaching (~20 minutes each) by ReStory Founder Chris Bruno, along with a coursework of assignments of curated readings, videos, and additional resources.

2. Live virtual gatherings on Mondays, 10:30-12:00 MST. 45 minutes all together to process that week’s topic followed by 45 minutes of break-out rooms.

3. Four optional "office hours" with Chris Bruno.

4. Six 1-hour virtual sessions with your triad and facilitator (a ReStory Storywork Coach) where you practice Storywork Coaching with one another AND receive live feedback and 1-1 training. Additionally, your supervisor engages your own written story with personalized care.

5. A Certificate of Completion reflective of 30 hours.

You will be in a triad with a ReStory Storywork Coach serving as facilitator. This is a unique opportunity to both receive care for your personal narrative while “practicing” Storywork Coaching and receiving feedback. You will write and share a story that has been read and engaged by your facilitator and have opportunity to observe, receive, and send two times.

We strongly urge you to consider your schedule prior to making this commitment. We keep the numbers small to create a safe and connected cohort. That being said, the Monday sessions will be recorded and made available in the online portal where your course content resides for the times when life prevents you from attending live.

The triads will determine their own schedule and attendance to all sessions are mandatory.

If you’ve found your way to this question, you’re probably feeling that you could use a different framework. You know better than anyone, not all modalities are the same. In the ReStory Institute, you’ll hear more about our unique approach to the human heart, our philosophy behind Storywork Coaching, and our focus on a posture of presence. If you’ve been looking for training on Storywork or hungry for practice, feedback, and some practicals, this is for you.

You’re probably here, curious and full of desire, to engage the people in your life differently. Perhaps you’re a ministry leader, lay counselor, mentor? You know there’s so much more available to people (and maybe you’ve personally experienced it) and you are hungry to learn. This is for you.

Yes! Learn more about what you’ll experience in Level Two here, in Level Three here, and in The Storywork Coaching Collective here.

Narrative Focused Trauma Care (NFTC), offered through The Allender Center, and ReStory’s Storywork training both believe your story matters. But they’re built differently, for different seasons of life and ministry.

NFTC Level I is a year-long commitment: four multi-day weekends spread across roughly six months, with a price tag north of $7,000. It’s a rich program rooted in Dan Allender’s decades of work, and many of our own ReStory facilitators have walked through it themselves. We have deep respect for that lineage. It shaped us too, and we affirm NFTC as real, valuable work.

ReStory took a different path, starting with how it was built. NFTC grew top-down, out of Dan Allender’s theological and psychological framework, then trained practitioners to apply it. ReStory grew the other way, from the ground up. The ReStory Institute actually began as in-house training for our own counselors and coaches. We needed a way to bring new practitioners up to speed in how we practice Storywork. Over time, others outside our walls wanted in, and what started as internal training became a program we now offer to counselors, pastors, and leaders everywhere. The methodology came from what worked in the room, not the other way around. That order matters. It’s why our training feels less like absorbing a theory and more like learning a craft. Many of our students serve in ministry or other faith contexts, and tell us the work resonates deeply with their lives and calling.

We built the ReStory Institute by and for practitioners: counselors, coaches, pastors, and leaders already doing the work, who need training that fits into a working life instead of pausing it. Our training is led by people who are in the room every week with real clients, couples, and groups. The program is just as rigorous and just as applicable as anything else out there. It’s simply built for working adults, so you leave each session with tools you can use the next day. Our price point is also a fraction of comparable training, making this work accessible without asking for a year and thousands of dollars away from your calling.

In fact, a good number of our students have already completed NFTC Level I. They come to us because they did the deep work of engaging their own story, and now they want to know how to actually do this with someone else. That’s the gap ReStory fills: less about another pass through your own narrative, more about the skills, tools, and confidence to guide others through theirs. It’s also the most common feedback we hear, that ReStory is kind, practical, and gives people a path toward practicing.

Ultimately, our goal is to get you doing the work. ReStory’s full path, Levels 1, 2, and 3, can be completed in about a year, getting you on solid footing as a practitioner of Storywork. NFTC’s training arc runs closer to three years to reach a comparable depth. We’re grateful for what NFTC has built and for what it gave many of us, but we built ReStory because the field needed a path that gets people equipped and practicing faster.

So if you’re trying to decide between the two: NFTC is a long-form, immersive journey into your own story, built from theory down. ReStory is a more hands-on path to using Storywork in your counseling room, your church, or your home, built from practice up, by people doing the work alongside you.

Unfortunately, once we are all a “yes” we work hard to place you in a triad that involves arranging three other people’s calendars. Unless we have a waitlist, we are unable to offer a refund if you have to back out last minute. We can offer participation in the next cohort if extenuating circumstances arise.

Participants with a complaint or dispute related to any ReStory Institute program may submit it in writing to info@restory.life. Complaints are reviewed by the Institute Directors, and participants receive a written response within 10 business days. Unresolved disputes are escalated to the ReStory Counseling leadership team for final resolution.

Our offices are located at 155 W. Harvard Street, Suite 401, Fort Collins, CO 80525.

PHONE: 855-RESTORY

EMAIL: info@restory.life