Seminar Registration
Course Information Tuition Day Schedule Courses and Registration Contact
CE hours are available for psychologists, marriage & family therapists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health professionals. Our courses meet requirements in most states.
All upcoming seminars are presented online via Zoom Meeting.
The online interactive courses have same CE approvals as the standard seminars. For psychologists, these hours count as real time in-person credit, as if you are in the room. Technical log-in instructions to Zoom are provided one week before the date.
Center courses offer the following credits:
Psychology, MFT, LCSW, LPCC, Ed Psych, NBCC: 6 CE hours
Nursing : 7 hours
The online interactive courses have same CE approvals as the standard seminars. For psychologists, these hours count as real time in-person credit, as if you are in the room.
Technical log-in instructions to Zoom are provided one week before the date.
The Home Study Course offers the following credits:
Psychology, LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, Ed Psych, NBCC: 6 CE hours
Nursing : 6 hours
The Home Study course can be started at any time.
The online interactive courses have same CE approvals as standard seminars. For psychologists, these hours count as real time in-person credit, as if you are in the room.
Technical log-in instructions to Zoom are provided one week before the date.
To complete the course, attendees must be present for the entire time, sign out at the end on the written evaluation of the course.
Transcripts of attendance will be emailed within a few days of each course to those who have enrolled for credit and fulfilled the requirements listed above. Participants are encouraged to retain the transcripts for four years.
Those not needing verification of attendance, such as teachers, writers, clergy, and artists - are welcome as non-credit attendees. Spouses, friends, students, and others not needing verification of attendance can also choose the lower non-credit tuition.
TuitionTuition is $140.
Subtract $45.
The Center currently offers one home-study course, The Wisdom of Mythic Stories. The course may be taken for CE credit or non-credit.
Home Study courses for CE credit: $95.
Home Study courses, non-credit: $45.
AccessibilityFor in-person courses, most facilities are wheelchair accessible, please call number on location list to confirm access.
Complete and print the registration form -- or fax, email, or phone. Or register online by competing this form and clicking on submit. Include check or credit card information (inc. expiration).
We need your full name, address, and phone number. Email is helpful in case there is a last-minute notification of a change (extremely rare).
For credit courses, we need your highest degree, type of license, and license number.
For more information about these seminars or to register by phone, call 805 687-7171
Day ScheduleParticipants admitted at 9:30 a.m.:
Seminar 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Lunch break 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
The Center for Story and Symbol is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education hours for psychologists. The Center maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. CE hours are accepted by the California MCEP program.
Full attendance is required for psychologists - No partial credit. The level is introductory for psychologists.
The California BBS accepts our APA and NBCC approvals.
The Center for Story and Symbol has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6118. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Center for Story and Symbol is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. National Board for Certified Counselors Provider Number 6118.
Provider approved by the Calif. Board of Registered Nursing, BRN Provider Number CEP 12477
The level is introductory.
Most teachers must get credits approved by their school administration. Center courses meet the requirements in most states. Contact us if you need more information about receiving credit in your state.
Continuing Education courses are customarily approved by immediate supervisors. It is usually sufficient to attend on a non-credit (auditing) basis and present a receipt for the course.
The level is introductory.
Make Checks to:
Mail to: 310 West Quinto Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Questions or phone registration:
805 687-7171
Facs registration: 805 687-5750
via web at Center for Story and Symbol
The Center also presents noncredit lectures throughout the U.S.
Non-Credit Dates