In this Friday Afternoon Video, Hailey Trudgeon details her experience using narrative practice to help children be a part of conversations about emergency preparedness within their community. It explores the importance of children’s voices in discussions about emergency preparedness…
In this Friday afternoon video, Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin briefly introduces some of the theoretical shifts, in the historically structuralist field of sciences, which now make possible some exchanges with narrative therapy. The evolution of these fields and their areas of…
In this week's Friday Afternoon Video, Erin Costello brings together collective stories of sexual assault survivors working with a sexual assault team. Through the use of narrative therapy principles, these stories make visible the ways in which ‘expertness’ can…
In this week's Friday Afternoon Video, Chilean feminist therapist Carla Galaz Souza begins with the recognition that even though much of our lives are spent dreaming, many people do not take their dreams seriously. Inviting dreams to the conversation…
Re-membering conversations, together with the written word, offer healing ways for Narrative Therapists to support people grieving the death of someone they love. In this Friday Afternoon video, Karen Mittet demonstrates the effective use of note taking during a…
In this presentation, Lisa Jones explains four ways of incorporating narrative approaches into palliative care social work. Along with their colleagues, Lisa adapted the 'psychosocial assessment' to include narrative questions, allowing for a different tenor of responses. Next came…
Jedda Wells is a proud Yuwaalaaray Woman who works and lives on Gundungurra and Tharawal lands. She is the owner of a Private Healing and Therapy Practice which supports people in contributing to their economy and community. This includes…
This Friday Afternoon Video explores how narrative approaches — externalising, unique-outcome, re-membering and re-authoring conversations — can be used for a domestic abuse hotline to assist clients in deconstructing their dominant stories and get in touch with their personal agency.…
In this new Friday Afternoon video, Daniela Schon describes how therapeutic letter writing and other narrative practices were implemented in a phone-based community counselling service in relation to work with regular and frequent callers. Helplines provide support for people…
This video offers insights into stories of self-identified women and girls who came to live in a shelter in Kathmandu, Nepal, to forge their own pathways after surviving trafficking, forced sex work and/or other forms of violence in their homes, communities and beyond.
This video explores the experience of combining two different therapeutic approaches, Narrative Therapy and Intention Peer Support. It aims to explore the huge value of the peer relationship. The peer relationship is when both or all parties in the relationship have had some similar or like experience.
Narrative Walks is a hope-based, depathologising outdoor program that was developed to engage with populations who may not be drawn to conventional methods of therapy. This structured day program encourages participants to explore 15 narrative therapy questions, and to engage in a number of other activities during a 20 kilometre walk through the bush.
This Friday Afternoon video by narrative therapist Kylie Dowse invites viewers to consider how narrative ways of working intertwine to prioritise the safety of women and children while respectfully engaging men.
