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On July 19 @ 5pm New York Time), Laurie Markham & David Marsten shared reflections on imagining new possibilities with young people and their families. Drawing from their own work as well as their current book project with David Epston, their presentation ignited lively conversation. We had lots of requests for the slides and recording (see below). . THANK YOU! Now, we can hardly wait for Laurie and David to come back in 2016 for Re-authoring Teaching's first official Book Launch: Narrative Therapy in Wonderland with David Marsten, David Epston and Laurie Markham!

Beginning with a brief overview of the course Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts, Re-Authoring Teaching is setting up a Youtube channel. The archived materials below describe our first collective Youtube Project, which we are currently calling Why Narrative therapy?. We offer four questions to guide your responses, and instructions for making/sending recordings to Peggy or Charley. Together we can "create a collaboratory!" Please check out  the "Why Narrative Therapy?" Playlist on our new Youtube channel. Or have a look at our recent blog post that lists the first videos in this project.

As featured guest for our May Collab Salon, Charley Lang presented on the topic of Queer Counseling & Narrative Practice. Beginning with three definitions of "queer," he posed questions about how binaries are helpful and not helpful in our lives. Charley brought us through polarities, as expressed through a recent "pulp fiction" art project. Thank you, Charley for this presentation, and for being our Collab Salon co-host. Your keen intelligence, teaching skills and generosity of spirit are so appreciated by all. We look forward to more opportunities to learn from and with you!

Thank you Maggie Carey for joining us for our April Collab session! Maggie presented on the ‘absent but implicit’ as a response to what has been problematic, and scaffolding this as an action. She also shared some thoughts about possible links between the ‘absent but implicit’ pathway and what is happening in the brain when we ask the questions that we do in using this pathway. Our plan was to show a couple of videos from Maggie's upcoming courses on Rich Story Development; however, we experienced a bit of techno/bandwidth difficulty. I will post the links to these videos below.

We had a wonderful Collab session with SuEllen Hamkins around her narrative approach to working with people who are living with serious and relentless problems or mental health challenges. Thank you to everyone who participated, and especially to SuEllen in offering us such a skillful, clear and energizing presentation.

It was a thrill- a dream come true- to bring together people from around the world to exchange with Larry Zucker- and each other- about Larry's work with couples - Escaping blaming frames of reference and engaging a different approach to conversation. A big extra thank you to everyone who helped us officially launch The Collab Salon, and especially to Larry for your generosity and skill in bringing your ideas to us in this new format.

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We'd like to share some favorite tributes to Michael that begin with remembrances by members of the Power to Our Journeys Group.   Read more

In honor of the 10th anniversary of Michael's death, we wish to evoke Michael's presence through images, videos, words, poems, art, performance and reflections.   Please fill out our contribution form here  and we will do our best to post them here.

In the December 2015 Collab Salon, Linda Moxley opened a conversation about Recuperating Michael White and re-curiositizing narrative therapy. Sharing her meticulous notes from two of Michael White’s workshops (1991; 2007), Linda evoked Michael’s voice,  rescued the said from the saying, and captured some of his intentions and innovative thinking. She guided us to particularly pay attention to themes, shifts in language and zig-zagging. The January Collab Salon continued this conversation with a focus on bringing Michael’s inspiration forward into the future. These recordings and notes are visible to Collab Salon Members.