Audio: Introducing externalizing conversations lecture (Michael White, 1992)
The workshop outlines how Michael White focused his workshops on the importance of locating problems and persons within cultural, contextual, and relational contexts.
Video: Absent but implicit (White, 2005)
Michael White discusses the therapeutic ideas of the absent but implicit/double listening - key concepts in narrative therapy practice.
Video: A history of definitional ceremony (White, YEAR)
Definitional ceremony occurs when we create structures to witness and reflect on stories
Video: Relative influence and relational externalizing ideas (White, 1987)
A wonderful discussion on relative influence and relational externalizing practices with Michael White in 1987
Video: Unique outcomes versus troubled reputations in families (White, 2004)
In the 2004 lecture, Michael White subverts dominant and popular positivist psychological explanations of personhood and instead - speaks to the possibility of alternative identity conclusions and unique outcomes.
Video: Challenging the idea of catharsis (White, 2005)
Michael White challenges the modern psychological idea of catharsis - the releasing and discharging of pain as a means of healing as it relates to trauma.
Audio: Discussion on diagnosis (DeShazer and White, 1992)
There were always comparisons between Solution Focused and Narrative Therapy that - Steve De Shazer and Michael White did not necessarily agree with. This rare recording is an excerpt of Steve DeShazer & Michael White discussing diagnosis.
Video: Reworking troubled reputations in families (White, 2004)
Michael White discusses his ideas and method of reworking (and the prospect of un-learning) singular troubled reputations in families through re-authoring conversations
Audio: Landscape of Action and Consciousness (White, 1991)
In this 1991 lecture, Michael White outlines the theory and practice surrounding his use of relative influence questions, landscape of action and consciousness (identity) questions, and those sneaky and beautiful alternative stories that do not fit with the problem story known as - unique outcomes.
Video: Introducing externalizing questions lecture (White, 1986)
Michael White's historical 1986 lecture begins to outline for North American therapists the ideology and theory behind a new practice that he has named externalizing conversations.
