Audio: Power knowledge & externalizing questions (White, 1992)
This 1992 audio represents a formative lecture featuring Michael White outlining Michel Foucault's ideas on power/knowledge/culture - as they influence externalizing problems.
Video: A story of trauma (Michael White, 2005)
Michael White discusses a story of trauma and abuse and how narrative ideas shape how he listens to the story being told.
Video: Plotting the counter-plot with rich description (White, 2004)
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.
Video: Working with youth who won’t come to therapy (White, 1987)
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
Video: Gregory Bateson and restraints of redundancy (White, 1986)
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.
Video: Power/knowledge in therapy interview (Madigan & White, 1991)
This rare 1991 interview clip captures Stephen Madigan interviewing Michael White about Gregory Bateson, Michel Foucault, the issue of power/knowlege and - how these ideas influence narrative therapy practice.