In this article we illustrate how trainers and trainees negotiate epistemic and deontic authority within systemic family therapy training. Adult education principles and postmodern imperatives have challenged trainers’ and trainees’ asymmetries regarding knowledge (epistemics) and power (deontics), normatively implicated by the institutional training setting. Up-to-date, we lack insight into how trainers and trainees negotiate epistemic and deontic rights in naturally occurring dialog within training. Drawing from discursive psychology and conversation analysis, we present an analysis of eight transcribed, videotaped training seminars from a systemic family therapy training program, featuring three trainers and eleven trainees. Our analysis highlights the dilemmatic ways in which participants resist and affirm the normatively implicated trainers’ deontic and epistemic authority. Trainers are shown as mitigating directives and trainees as resisting them, with both displaying (not)knowing, while attending to concerns about (a)symmetry. We discuss our findings’ implications for systemic family therapy training.

在本文中，我们说明了培训师和受训者如何在系统性家庭治疗培训中协商认知和义务权威。成人教育原则和后现代要求挑战了培训师和受训者在知识（认识论）和权力（道义论）方面的不对称，这在机构培训环境中具有规范性。迄今为止，我们缺乏对培训师和学员如何在培训中自然发生的对话中协商认知和义务权利的洞察力。从话语心理学和对话分析中汲取灵感，我们对来自系统性家庭治疗培训计划的八次转录、录像培训研讨会进行了分析，其中包括三名培训师和十一名学员。我们的分析强调了参与者抵制和肯定规范性牵连的培训师的道义和认知权威的困境方式。培训师表现为减轻指令，而受训者则抵制指令，两者都表现出（不）知道，同时关注对（a）对称性的担忧。我们讨论了我们的研究结果对系统性家庭治疗培训的影响。