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Learning the craft of
narrative therapy questions through live demonstrations and transcripts.
Stephen Madigan's 1994 interview clip with Michael White and David Epston asks questions about their therapeutic questions and leads to a discussion about the ethics of narrative therapy and the conscious purpose behind
narrative therapy questions
She teaches participants her unique brand of narrative therapy and social justice informed therapeutic work with girls and women who have experienced sexual violence by using
narrative therapy questions to address the impacts (body, mind, spirit, sexual and sexuality).
After completing my PhD dissertation on the history and politic of
their narrative therapy questions, Michael (along with Cheryl White) planned out the opening of the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy in the Spring of 1992 (one night in 1991 — on the back of an Italian restaurant placemat).
Not exact matches
They mentored me on the idea that
narrative therapy was a hard studied craft of appreciation, counter-story, relative influnece
questions, improvisation, rights of passage and anti-individualism.
These include: 1) our lives are multi storied not single storied, 2)
narrative therapy assists people to more richly know and remember stories that always exist out beyond the singular problem story told and, 3) through curiosity and a non-individualist stance to their
questions a
narrative therapist can help people step back to remember these lesser known (and often preferred) stories of their lives and relationships.
Stephen Madigan's VSNT training handout offers a brief introductory tour through a few necessary understandings when developing therapeutic
questions from a
narrative therapy perspective.
The purpose of this section is to provide examples of the types
questions that create space for new stories in
narrative therapy.
More
questions and information for therapists interested in applying
narrative therapy can be found here or here.
Stephen Madigan discusses a practice of
narrative therapy that is primarily concerned with
questioning the politics of identity making - of who has the story telling rights to the story being told in
therapy.
Demonstrations on (
narrative therapy informed) Relational Interviewing: Re-moralizing Ethics in Conflicted Couple Relationships — Therapeutic Letters, Relational
Questions and Theory.
This key 2005 Michael White lecture outlines Jerome Bruner's ideas on the
narrative metaphor and — shows how
narrative therapy developed the structure of
questions (through Bruner's ideas on the landscapes of action and identity)
The handout on the idea of counter-viewing
questions speaks to
narratives therapy's deconstructive therapeutic act.
David Epston outlines the
questions that guide and shape his
questions in
narrative therapy.