Live Session: Anti-Bulimia A (Madigan, 2011)
This simple narrative video demonstration shows Stephen Madigan working with a woman who has been struggling with bulimia for 19 years.
This simple narrative video demonstration shows Stephen Madigan working with a woman who has been struggling with bulimia for 19 years.
Stephen brings you the 2nd part of the Anti-bulimia session and demonstrates how unique counter-stories emerge through landscape of action and land of identity questions
Stephen's interview demonstrates an appreciation with, and a curiosity about the emotional complexities involved in making the decision to stay or leave the house after 2 years confinement.
The re-hearing/re-telling of the notes from the previous session acts as a reflective surface to explore the companion stories of loss and hope through landscapes of action and identity questions
Stephen explores the mans experiences with certain dominant expectations and specifications of masculinity and this leads to a broadening of definitions on alternative ways of being a man.
Co-researching of insider knowledges are viewed as a crucial part of thickening the counter-story in narrative therapy. Counter-stories, insider knowledge, and consulting your consultants conversations are explored.
Narrative practices, making way for the kinds of excitement that could never have been planned in advance. The particularities of excitement are considered for how they promote certain ethics of practice and potentially give rise to children’s know-how and imagination.