Live Session: Remembering counter-plots with conflicted couples (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen consults David about the history of taunting and possible steps and solutions to help his nine brothers and sisters move away from taunting.
Stephen Madigan starts off the session with David and his Mother Kim. One of David's nine brothers and sisters is watching the session off camera.
In the live & interactiveVSNT faculty discuss Stephen's Anti-anorexia session as a backdrop to discussing a wide range of narrative questions and positions including the scaffolding and timing of relational questions, historical unique outcomes, character and ethos, counter-storying, and reauthoring imagined future possibilities.
Stephen Madigan audio recorded David Epston's temper taming session while he was living and apprenticing with him in Auckland, New Zealand in 1991.
Stephen conducts a live externalizing interview with an 11 year old boy Ollie (and his mother) who has been mandated by the courts to seek therapy after a charge of battery. Watch Stephen relationally externalizes 'trouble' and demonstrate relative influence and evaluative questions within the landscapes of action and identity - and plots out troubles potential losses as well as the boys's preferred ethics and reputation.
The fourth part of the live interview session David Epston begins find support of the counter-story by circulating the new story through letter writing.
The next part of the live session David Epston begins to rework the troubled/violent reputation of the young boy and ask questions to help develop an alternative story line.
David Epston meets with a young boy of 12 years old (and his psychiatrist). The young boy has been living in a psychiatric hospital in Sweden for over one year because of a relationship to anger and violence.
David's continued consultation with his consultant Zach - on experiences of homophobia and dominant masculinity at the grade school in Sacramento, California.