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His article, published in International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, shows examples of the ‘Life Certificate’ used in practice, as well as a six-stage map of narrative practice that can be used in conjunction with it, to help renegotiate people’s relationships with grief. This idea has sparked great interest!
From 1983 onwards, Dulwich Centre was known for holding free events on Friday afternoons. These ‘Friday Afternoons at Dulwich’ would begin at 4.30pm so that people dropped by on their way home after the working week. They always consisted of a good speaker sharing some aspect of their practice that was currently intriguing and challenging to them and this was then followed by discussion ...
Narrative therapy is sometimes known as involving ‘re-authoring’ or ‘re-storying’ conversations. As these descriptions suggest, stories are central to an understanding of narrative ways of working. The word ‘story’ has different associations and understandings for different people. For narrative therapists, stories consist of:
The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work 35 2008 No. 1 www.dulwichcentre.com.au Teaching Narrative Practice: Introduction By Cheryl White Cheryl White developed and co-ordinates the International Training Program: Narrative Approaches to Therapy and Community Workwhich is based at Dulwich Centre.
This paper reflects on integrating narrative therapy practices into an alcohol and other drugs context. It includes examples of these techniques with clients, highlighting externalising conversations, re-authoring conversations and the migration of identity concept. It also describes how therapeutic letter writing has been used in this context ...
One of the early defining characteristics of narrative therapy was the creative use of documentation or the written word. In this video presentation, David Newman describes the ways in which he is using living documents with young people in an inpatient ward. This paper illustrates how we can use four different categories of document.
4 Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions (viewed as if they are inherent or internal to individuals) are also externalised in narrative therapy conversations. We’ll describe more about this later on. It’s also important to note that externalising involves much more than ‘linguistic techniques’.
