Peggy Sax As you read through the abundance of materials in Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts, can you help us ground the concepts here in your every day practice? – Is there a story that come to mind from your own work context that can help make these ideas come alive? – Can you briefly describe your work context? – How have you understood a key narrative concept in this particular context? – [...]
Before joining this Conversation Forum , please review the materials in Lesson Six: Creating Audiences, Linking Lives & Building Community. In this section we review how narrative practitioners often seek to incorporate audiences in efforts such as letter-writing campaigns, outsider witness practices, reflecting teamwork, Tree of Life gatherings, ‘reclaiming community, and other community rituals. In narrative practice, “documentation” is not an ugly word. Instead, we often create living documents through text, song, multi-media presentations, certificates [...]
I am delighted that Chris Beels agreed to respond to NPCI Study Group reflections and questions after reading his article, "Some Historical Conditions of Narrative Work" (in the Family Process 2009 special section on the legacy of Michael White). This conversation began September 10, 2009. Chris Beels: I'm happy to be a guest author. I think the best way for me to participate is by getting posts in the mail from Peggy rather [...]
Peggy Sax Before joining this Conversation Forum , please review the materials in Lesson Six: Creating Audiences, Linking Lives & Building Community. In this section we review how narrative practitioners often seek to incorporate audiences in efforts such as letter-writing campaigns, outsider witness practices, reflecting teamwork, Tree of Life gatherings, ‘reclaiming community, and other community rituals. In narrative practice, “documentation” is not an ugly word. Instead, we often create living documents through text, [...]
(reprinted from Inside Stories) Here's a Vicki Dickerson conducted in 1999 with Dr. Kaethe Weingarten about her work as a postmodern narrative family therapist. Dr. Weingarten is a clinical psychologist, peace psychologist, family therapist, as well as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). She has been up to a lot since our interview, and her most recent work focuses on "reasonable hope, [...]