Reading: Working with trauma workshop notes (White, 2005)

Length: 30 minutes

There are contemporary understandings of psychological pain and emotional distress as an outcome of trauma that obscure many of the complexities of people’s experiences of trauma, and of their expressions of this experience. Study Michael White's original narrative workshop notes on working with trauma.

Reading: Explorations of the absent but implicit (Freedman, 2012)

Length: 30 minutes

Jill Freedman describes her exploration of practices working with the absent but implicit, particularly in therapy with couples and families. She includes questions that may be helpful in naming the absent but implicit and describes how these conversations can support a context in which exploring discourses is quite relevant.