Audio: Reauthoring conversations (White, 1991)
A clear description of what constructs, constitutes, and scaffolds the possibility of entering into Reauthoring Conversations is discussed by Michael White during a workshop in 1991
Reading: Conversations with men handout (White & VSNT, 2007)
Michael White's work began to construct questions to address and deconstruct specific cultural influences, trainings and demands of dominant masculinity.
Reading: Externalizing the problem and internalizing personal agency (Tomm, 1989)
Externalizing the problem and internalizing personal agency, Karl Tomm, 1989
Video: Timing and the questioning of discourses (Jill Freedman, TC12, 2015)
Jill Freedman elegantly discusses how she learned to orientate herself to asking deconstructive questions on the politics of discourse.
Video: The birth of narrative therapy (Epston, Madigan and Sanders, 2011)
Colin Sanders interviews David Epston and Stephen Madigan in front of his Graduate School students on the beginning histories of narrative therapy. In this section of the interview David recalls his first meeting with Michael White in 1982.
Video: Helping therapists reject expert truths about persons (White, 2005)
Michael White outlines a crucial difference between narrative practice and 150 years of psychological thinking.
Video: Vocabularies of experience and the shaping of questions David Epston & Michael White interview (Madigan, 1994)
Within this 1994 interview, David Epston discusses how he establishes alternative 'meaning making' and vocabularies of experience within the therapeutic session - through the shaping of the questions he's asks.
Reading: Summary of steps in reauthoring lives and relationships handout (White, 1992)
In this 1992 handout Michael White explains a few ideas on reauthoring lives and relationships using an archaeology of alternative knowledges to think through the unthought and to articulate that which has not been articulated.
Audio: Introducing externalizing conversations lecture (White, 1992) – Sample
PreviewMichael White landed on a rather cheeky idea that the person was not the problem . . . the problem was the problem. Simple right? Hmmmm - not so fast. Two decades before his brief foray into maps, Michael's workshops focused almost entirely on the politics and practice behind locating problems and persons within cultural, contextual and relational contexts.
Video: Cultural specifications for personhood (White, 1987)
Michael White's early workshops in North American from (roughly) 1986 through to 1996, outlined a strong ideological, theoretical and practice difference with the foundations of psychology and family therapy thinking about identity.
