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.
Reading: Introduction to narrative therapy questions handout (Madigan, 2013)
Stephen Madigan's VSNT training handout offers a brief introductory tour through a few necessary understandings when developing therapeutic questions from a narrative therapy perspective.
Additional Resources: Watch Madigan’s full session #5
Full session demonstration: Consulting your consultants and reauthoring: live session #5
Reading: Re-storying the experience of loss and death slides (Pilkington, 2016)
Sasha Pilkington's original slide presentation guide us through specific inquiries into grief and loss and how they are designed to gather stories that may be carried forward by surviving family members and - how they may also carry particular significance and are likely to be remembered long term
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.
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.
Video: Landscape of action & identity questions (White, 2005)
Michael Whites 2005 lecture offers succinct examples of landscape of action and landscape of identity questions and how people’s lives can become ‘thickened’, and more richly known and described.
Video: Questions about the influence of the unborn child (Kristensen & Hedtke, TC13, 2016)
Questions to counter those predominant discourses about death and grief that can often silence the parents in talking about their ongoing relationship with the child who has died
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.
