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
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
Reading: Externalizing workshop handout (White, 1991)
In this 1991 workshop handout Michael White outlines externalizing conversations as counter-practices that challenge internal state psychology, negative identity conclusions, expert knowledge, and totalizing descriptions of personhood.
Live Session: An Externalizing conversation with bulimia (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen Madigan's live video session demonstrates the narrative therapy practices of externalizing conversations, unique outcomes and reauthoring lives and relationships.
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.
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.
Reading: Deconstruction and therapy (White, 1991)
The Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy considers this 1991 paper by Michael White as one of the most important narrative therapy articles ever written.
Video: Unique outcomes versus troubled reputations in families (White, 2004)
In the 2004 lecture, Michael White subverts dominant and popular positivist psychological explanations of personhood and instead - speaks to the possibility of alternative identity conclusions and unique outcomes.
Live Session: Example of externalizing questions (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen Madigan demonstrates a few basic narrative therapy interview that features externalizing questions questions and - the scaffolding of landscapes of action, landscapes of identity, relative influence unique outcomes and reauthoring conversations.
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.
