Collaboration & Accountability
Narrative practices respect people as the experts of their own lives. As such, our expertise is not in how we deliver ‘interventions’, but in how we provide a context, through a scaffolding of questions, that makes it possible for…
Topic 9: Outsider witness practice and definitional ceremony (due 25 November)
Welcome to Topic 7: Outsider witness practice and definitional ceremony. This reflection is due 25 November, 2022. ‘Outsider-witness practices: some answers to commonly asked questions’ compiled by Shona Russell and Maggie Carey Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions‘Azima ila…
Externalising conversations quiz
Okay, having watched this teaching and heard these stories, now’s the time to reflect upon what you’ve been learning! The following quiz has been designed to assist with this. Please select your answers and then proceed to marking. Don’t…
Chapter 7: Collective Narrative Practice: working with groups and communities
In this final chapter we provide you a few more examples of collective practice and community work. “As counsellors, therapists, psychosocial workers and community workers, stories of hardship find their way to us. In some ways, we are cultural…
Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies & enabling contribution (reflection due 7 June)
Welcome to Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies and enabling contribution. This reflection is due 7 June, 2024. Opening up the counselling room - the joining of stories as a political act by Renee Handsacker International Journal Of Narrative Therapy and…
6A. Responding to trauma/violence/abuse (reflection due 18 June)
Resources Survivors supporting survivors: Recalling the history of the Ibuka counselling team by Adelite Mukamana Intergenerational narrative practice in response to intergenerational trauma by Saviona Cramer with reflections from Rwandan practitioners Discovering children’s responses to trauma: a response-based narrative…
7. Gender in practice (reflection due 30 Sept)
Topic 7 resources: Setting the context: The personal is political and professional – Talking about feminism, culture and violence. A conversation between’ by Angel Yuen and Cheryl White Introduction to Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice'Commonly asked…
6A. Responding to trauma/violence/abuse (reflection due 10 June)
Resources Survivors supporting survivors: Recalling the history of the Ibuka counselling team by Adelite MukamanaIntergenerational narrative practice in response to intergenerational trauma by Saviona Cramer with reflections from Rwandan practitionersOur story of suffering and surviving’: Intergenerational double-story development with…
Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies & enabling contribution (reflection due 10 June)
Welcome to Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies and enabling contribution. This reflection is due 10 June, 2022. Information to go here. 'Opening up the counselling room - the joining of stories as a political act' by Renee Handsacker‘Outsider-witness practices: some…
Topic 9: Outsider witness practice and definitional ceremony (due 29 December)
Welcome to Topic 9: Outsider witness practice and definitional ceremony. Outsider-witness practices: some answers to commonly asked questions compiled by Shona Russell and Maggie Carey Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions Azima ila Hayati – An invitation in to…
Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies & enabling contribution (reflection due 9 June)
Welcome to Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies and enabling contribution. This reflection is due 9 June, 2023. Information to go here. 'Opening up the counselling room - the joining of stories as a political act' by Renee Handsacker ‘Outsider-witness practices:…
8. Working with couples (reflection due 14 Oct)
Topic 8 resources: 'Placing couple work in context', Jill Freedman & Gene Combs (2002) Narrative therapy with couples…and a whole lot more! A collection of papers, essays and exercises. Dulwich Centre Publications: Adelaide'Narrative couple therapy' Jill Freedman & Gene…
Topic 6: Feminisms, intersectionality and narrative practice (reflection due 5 July)
Welcome to Topic 6: Feminisms, intersectionality and narrative practice. Your reflection is due 5 July, 2024. Web resource: Feminisms, intersectionality and narrative practice. This online course initiated by Cheryl White with Zan Maeder, Tileah Drahm-Butler and Sekneh Hamoud-Beckett includes…
Beginning to use narrative practices
In this final chapter we take some time to reflect on your learning and the next steps you might take in your journey with narrative practices. Here we consider the process of beginning to engage with…
6B. Working with children/young people (reflection due 10 June)
Resources Narratives in the suitcase by Ncazelo Ncube-MlilioChildren, children’s culture, and therapy’ by Michael White (2000) Chapter 1 in Reflections on narrative practice.The Team of Life with young men from refugee backgrounds by David DenboroughListening for alternative stories Narrative…
6B. Working with children/young people (reflection due 18 June)
Resources Narratives in the suitcase by Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilio Children, children’s culture, and therapy’ by Michael White Listening for alternative stories Narrative practice with vulnerable children and young people in India The gift of giving: Empowering vulnerable children, families and…
Reflecting on the interview and a message to the survivors of abuse
Part three: Reflections In this third section of the course you will: Watch Chris and Jussey offering their reflections on what it was like for them to re-watch the recording of their conversation with Michael Watch a message that…
Chapter 8: Final Reflections
https://player.vimeo.com/video/517720604 Final reflection The final reflection is adapted from Alice Morgan’s article Beginning to Use a Narrative Approach in therapy. This reflection is a practice reflection so it will be most valuable if you’ve had a chance to…
Topic 4: Considerations of folk psychology (due 22 July)
Welcome to Topic 4: Considerations of folk psychology. The reflection is due 22nd July, 2022. ‘Folk psychology and narrative practice’ by Michael White in Narrative Practice and Exotic Lives, Chapter 6Diversifying and democratising narrative practice: Folk cultural methodologies & Tracing…
Topic 4: Considerations of folk psychology (due 8 September)
Welcome to Topic 4: Considerations of folk psychology. Folk psychology and narrative practice by Michael White in Narrative Practice and Exotic Lives, Chapter 6 Diversifying and democratising narrative practice: Folk cultural methodologies & Tracing the roots of the Tree of…
Topic 6: Feminisms, intersectionality and narrative practice (reflection due 7 July)
Welcome to Topic 6: Gender in practice, with the reflection due 7 July, 2023. Feminisms, intersectionality and narrative practice. This online course initiated by Cheryl White with Zan Maeder, Tileah Drahm-Butler and Sekneh Hamoud-Beckett includes six ‘chapters’ - Feminisms,…
Topic 6: Gender in practice (reflection due 8 July)
Welcome to Topic 6: Gender in practice, with the reflection due 8 July, 2022. Feminist challenge and women's liberation by Cheryl White from the book A Memory Book for the Field of Narrative PracticeCommonly asked questions about feminism and…
