Video: A story of trauma (Michael White, 2005)
Michael White discusses a story of trauma and abuse and how narrative ideas shape how he listens to the story being told.
Video: Plotting the counter-plot with rich description (White, 2004)
Michael White discusses the landscapes of action and identity, unique outcomes and the reauthoring of counter-plots, subordinate story lines, and alternative stories. You will come to understand unique outcomes as those wonderfully delicious moments that emerge to raise suspicions on any finalized version of the problem story.
Video: Working with youth who won’t come to therapy (White, 1987)
The Michael White workshop in 1987 outlines a few novel letter writing approaches when we find ourselves working with youth who won’t come to therapy
Video: Gregory Bateson and restraints of redundancy (White, 1986)
Michael White's 1986 discussion of Gregory Bateson ideas on restraints of redundancy represents the introduction of unique outcomes and his dramatic shift away from his former family systemic therapy practice.
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.
