David consults Zach on experiences of homophobia and dominant masculinity at their grade school in Sacramento, California. He and Zach discuss how neoliberal expectations on gender norms help produce cultural productions of bullying of non-normative gendered youth.
Nylund and Tilsen begin with a discussion and live session on normativity and non-normative identities.
Stephen Madigan explores Michael White's ideological connection to second order cybernetics and the work of Gregory Bateson and - how it was that Michael and David Epston decided to turn away from 150 years of psychological theory, vocabulary and practice
Stephen Madigan's live video session demonstrates the narrative therapy practices of externalizing conversations, unique outcomes and reauthoring lives and relationships.
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.
Stephen Madigan demonstrates how Michael White taught him a particular structure in taking therapeutic notes and reporting the notes back from the previous session to begin the next session - as an act of re-membering and re-telling
Stephen Madigan demonstrates how a shift in meaning and identity conclusions can emerge alongside unique counter-stories and the reauthoring of experiences.
This simple narrative video demonstration shows Stephen Madigan working with a woman who has been struggling with bulimia for 19 years.
The session concludes with more reviewing and exposing of anorexia's practice tactics - allowing space for the bringing forth of counter-practices and appreciation for previously unnoticed counter-measures.
The live Anti-anorexia narrative therapy session demonstrates how to slowly reinvigorate and remember previous anti-anorexic knowledges now somewhat restrained by the problem and presently - hidden from view.
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