This rare and vitally important 1986 lecture features Michael White introducing his practice of therapy through a discussion of Gregory Bateson's ideas on negative explanation, double description and restraint. The lecture took place 4 years before his practice became known as narrative therapy.
This 1992 audio represents a formative lecture featuring Michael White outlining Michel Foucault's ideas on power/knowledge/culture - as they influence externalizing problems.
Michael White discusses a story of trauma and abuse and how narrative ideas shape how he listens to the story being told.
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.
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
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.
The workshop outlines how Michael White focused his workshops on the importance of locating problems and persons within cultural, contextual, and relational contexts.
Michael White discusses the therapeutic ideas of the absent but implicit/double listening - key concepts in narrative therapy practice.
Definitional ceremony occurs when we create structures to witness and reflect on stories
A wonderful discussion on relative influence and relational externalizing practices with Michael White in 1987
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