Video: Introducing externalizing questions lecture (White, 1986)
Michael White's historical 1986 lecture begins to outline for North American therapists the ideology and theory behind a new practice that he has named externalizing conversations.
Video: Multiple identities to stand in (White, 2005)
Michael White discusses narrative practice ideas that interrupt totalizing identities of men who are violent.
Audio: Exceptions and unique outcomes (DeShazer and White, 1992)
In this rare interview, Steve DeShazer and Michael White discuss their practice conceptions and difference regarding the ideas of exceptions and unique outcomes
Video: Unique outcomes versus troubled reputations in families (White, 2004)
In this 2004 lecture, Michael White subverts dominant and popular positivist explanations of personhood and speaks to the possibility of alternative identity conclusions and those beautiful counter-experiences known as unique outcomes.
Audio: Practices of Re-authoring (White, 1992)
Michael White discusses how specific narrative questions can be introduced in the re-authoring of lives and relationships
Video: Histories of narrative therapy keynote (Madigan, 2014)
PreviewStephen Madigan explores Michael White's ideological connection to second order cybernetics and the work of Gregory Bateson and - how it was that Michael and David Epston decided to turn away from 150 years of psychological theory, vocabulary and practice
Reading: Working with trauma workshop notes (White, 2005)
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.
Video: Michael Whites interest in Bateson & Foucault (Madigan, 2014)
Stephen Madigan's TC11 conference keynote offers a quick run through a history of David Epston & Michael Whites interest in the ideas of Gregory Bateson and Michel Foucault
Video: Gregory Bateson: negative explanation and restraint (Tomm & White, 1986)
This 1986 video show why VSNT has argued for many years that without a thorough investigation/understanding of Bateson's ideas on negative explanation, double description, and restraints - it would be difficult to fully grasp Michael Whites narrative therapy work.
Reading: Explorations of the absent but implicit (Freedman, 2012)
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.
