Reading: A quick intro to narrative therapy (Bjoroy, Madigan & Nylund, 2015)
A clear and simple introductory article to help the membership get a handle on narrative therapy theory and practice by Anja Bjoroy, Stephen Madigan and David Nylund (2015)
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.
Video: What to look for in the demonstration (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen Madigan is interviewed and asked to outline a few key features of a narrative therapy interview
Live Session: Part B problem story/counter-story (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen's interview demonstrates an appreciation with, and a curiosity about the emotional complexities involved in making the decision to stay or leave the house after 2 years confinement.
Live Session: Part C Problem practices (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen and the person enter into discussions regarding the problems dramatic effects on his life and relationships, what he has considered lost, and how the numerous practices of the problem can be uncovered and are never to underestimated.
Live Session: Discussion of first session (Madigan, 2011)
The discussion of the first session outlines the attention given to a broad description of the problems relative influences, how these problem relationships are relational and situated within cultural discourses of normativity and expectation and - the possibility of an emerging counter-story.
Live Session: The use of session notes as a re-telling (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen Madigan demonstrates how Michael White taught him a particular structure in taking therapeutic notes and reporting the notes back from the previous session to begin the next session - as an act of re-membering and re-telling
Additional Resources: Watch Madigan’s full session #5
Full session demonstration: Consulting your consultants and reauthoring: live session #5
Live Session: Reauthoring stories of masculinity and fear (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen explores the mans experiences with certain dominant expectations and specifications of masculinity and this leads to a broadening of definitions on alternative ways of being a man.
Reading: VSNT brief glossary of terms (Madigan, 2016)
For your reading enjoyment - VSNT and Stephen Madigan outline many of the key terms of narrative therapy theory and practice and - offer a brief description of each
