Welcome to Humanizing Ourselves for the Other
A Collaborative-Dialogical-Educational Virtual Learning Experience
Join a learning space shaped by presence, humility, and belief. Humanizing Ourselves for the Other is more than courseworkâit is a way of being and a stance toward life itself.
At the Now I See A Person Institute (NISAPI), we carry forward the legacy of Harry Goolishian, Harlene Anderson, and Susan Swim, who challenged the diseasing of mental health. This program invites participants to listen into peopleâs lives as human storiesâstories that deserve belief, dignity, trust, and respectâand to hold the belief that change and possibilities are always possible.
Program Overview
⢠30+ hours of immersive study
⢠Optional Continuing Education Credits
⢠Direct access to faculty and recovery consultants from the US and across the globe
⢠30+ hours of client-informed learning, where individuals share how collaborative-dialogical practices shaped their recovery and growth
What You Will Explore
⢠Listen with openness and curiosity, allowing collective dialogical relationships within suffering to create space for new possibilities.
⢠Explore belief, trust, and dignity as lived through process ethics.
⢠Immerse yourself in interviews and case examples showing how people transformed suffering and reclaimed life beyond pathologizing labels.
Discover how clinicians learn to listen with openness and curiosity, allowing relationships within suffering to open space for new possibilities.
The power of dialogue and relationships:
⢠Change is always possibleâthrough dialogue and relationships, people discover new ways forward.
⢠Community is essentialâhealing unfolds within supportive networks that sustain growth and connection.
⢠Hope often begins simplyâdialogues that co-create hope and happiness may sound simple, and often they are.
⢠Simplicity holds depthâwithin these conversations, profound shifts take place.
⢠Trust awakens possibilitiesâconversations grounded in trust and mutual presence open pathways once thought unreachable.
⢠Healing is relationalâboth clinicians and consumers experience how healing unfolds in relationship: where suffering meets dignity, belief opens new life directions, and stories are honored as the foundation for transformation.
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Real-World Learning & Outcomes
⢠Long-term research: Built on 40 years of faculty research and lived experience in collaborative-dialogical practice.
⢠The first video: Draws on therapy research with a family whose children were in the state system for 3 years and at risk for adoption. Through collaborative-dialogical practice, reunification occurred in the mid-2000s; 15+ years later, the children are thrivingânow married or in college.
⢠Client-informed learning: Over 30 hours of clients directly informing clinicians of the benefits of collaborative-dialogical practices.
⢠Collaborative partnerships: NISAPI worked alongside child services departments, multiple agencies, foster parents, and biological parents to achieve reunification.
⢠Recovery stories:
⢠Children, teens, and adults once facing depression, anxiety, psychosis, eating disorders, and life-threatening crises are now choosing life and flourishing without medication or services.
⢠Individuals once burdened by the label of âsevere mental illnessâ have shed those limits, reclaimed freedom from treatments, and discovered new life directions.
⢠Those who spent years in hospitalization are now living years of thriving in relationships, work, and community.
⢠Communities of support: Sustainable and long-lasting change grows through collaboration with families, child services, courts, probation, schools, and lawyersâworking together as communities of support.
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Faculty Interaction & Learner Support
Through ongoing faculty interaction, learners benefit from processing their individual learning agendas in conversation with faculty members, in peer dialogue, and through supervision opportunities. This creates a dynamic, reflective environment where learning becomes lived practice rather than abstract theory.
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What Previous Learners Have Said
⢠âBeing able to listen to these videos was a game-changer. I could learn at my own pace.â
⢠âThe faculty and recovery consultants created a space where I could immerse myself fully into the learning.â
⢠âI left this program with not just new knowledge, but a new way of being with the people I serve.â
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Our Invitation
This program invites you to see beyond preconceptions, to honor human connection, and to co-create practices where dignity, freedom, growth, and new possibilities flourish.
Enroll today: www.nowiseeaperson.com
Questions? Contact us at: admin@nowiseeaperson.com
Humanizing Ourselves for the Other
Course Description
This course facilitates a greater understanding of an innovative, collaborative approach to conducting therapy with clients. It helps participants implement collaborative intervention strategies to maximize long-term client gains. Learners will engage in lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises to support learning and retention.
Modality
Self-paced, online course. Voluntary (not required) virtual meetings with course professors are available upon request. And are an extra cost.
Course Dates
Courses run on an open scheduleâyou can start and complete at your convenience.
Course Length
Self-paced. Students have one year from the date of initiation to complete the course.
Prerequisites
None required.
Required Materials
No required textbooks. A recommended reading list is provided to supplement your studies.
CEUâs
Upon successful completion, participants earn CEUâs.
Course Costs
- Full Course (Standard) â $1,200 USD (includes all 30 videos and CEUâs).
- Full Course (Premium) â $1,500 USD (includes all 30 videos, CEUâs, plus 3 hours of faculty time).
- Individual Videos â $35 USD per video.
- Video + Faculty Bundle â $145 USD (includes one video plus one hour of faculty time).
- Additional Faculty Time â Extra one-hour sessions with faculty available at $120 USD per hour (optional).



