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.
Reading: Unique Outcome Workshop handout (White, 1992)
During VSNT's Stephen Madigan 1991 narrative therapy apprenticeship in Adelaide, Australia he received this Michael White handout outlining externalizing and reauthoring conversations as counter-practices. This particular handout is one of the first to outline the politics of narrative practice.
Video: A politic and poetic of questions David Epston & Michael White interview (Madigan, 1994)
Within the 1994 interview, Michael White discusses how externalizing conversations are discursive and designed to bring forth the politics of experience. David Epston discusses what he calls juvenile externalizing questions and how they act to minimize possibilities.
Reading: Addressing personal failure (White, 2006)
Michael Whites 2006 paper (which VSNT ranks as one of his all time best!) describes therapeutic options relevant to addressing a growing sense of people experiencing 'personal' failure. The paper also describes the operations of modern power (as opposed to sovereign power).
