Video: Early ideas on externalizing conversations (White, 1987) – Sample
PreviewIn this 1987 lecture Michael White begins to clearly outline his steps away from ideas of structuralism and functionalism.
Video: Reauthoring landscapes of action and identity/consciousness (White, 2004)
Re-authoring conversations are a key feature in the practice of narrative therapy. Michael White's 2004 discussion centres on developing reauthoring conversations through building a scaffold of curiosity and questions.
Audio: Landscape of action and consciousness (White, 1991)
Drawing on the work of Jerome Bruner, Michael White found a structure to enter into client stories and construct a scaffold for his question. The structure involved Bruner's ideas on the composition of narrative stories through the landscape of action and landscapes of identity.
Reading: Externalizing workshop handout (White, 1991)
In this 1991 workshop handout Michael White outlines externalizing conversations as counter-practices that challenge internal state psychology, negative identity conclusions, expert knowledge, and totalizing descriptions of personhood.
Video: Limitations of structuralist understandings (White, 2005)
In this 2005 lecture Michael White discusses the limitations of structuralist understandings central to popular modern day therapeutic thinking.
Video: Philosopher Todd May on Michel Foucault & Michael White (May, 2020) Sample
PreviewPhilosopher Todd May joins Stephen Madigan to begin their VSNT.live Series on how certain ideas of Michel Foucault influenced the narrative therapy practice of Michael White.
Audio: Practices of re-authoring (White, 1992)
Michael White's 1992 key lecture shows how therapists might consider and bring forth questions that can be introduced during the re-authoring of lives and relationships that encourage people to generate new proposals for action
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
