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May 17, 2015 Collab Salon: Queer Counseling

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!

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T10:52:03-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

June 21, 2015 Collab Salon: Teaching & Learning Narrative Therapy

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.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:31:34-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

July 2015 Collab Salon: Imagining new possibilities with young people and their families

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).

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:32:48-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

August 2015 Collab Salon: Reinventing Re-authoring Teaching’s future

Peggy Sax facilitated a conversation about Reinventing Re-authoring Teaching's future. For the past several months, a team of people have been working behind the scenes on a major renovation of our website, Youtube channel and online course offerings. Together we honored Michael White and David Epston's legacy, traced the evolution of this online learning community, and celebrated our new beginnings.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:33:41-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

September, 2015 Collab Salon: Stories that honor cultural integrity – marcela polanco

marcela polanco from Our Lady of the Lake University was our featured guest for the September Collab Salon. After overcoming some initial techno difficulties, we engaged in a discussion about a question Michael White raised in his work “How is it that people pull the materials of culture together to form an identity and a life, and of the processes by which these cultural knowledges and practices are reworked in people’s expressions of living?” (White, 2001). We focused on the complex ways in which culture shapes the oral traditions that support the fabrication of stories and the assembling of our lives in turn. Marcela's work emphasizes the importance of honoring the cultural integrity of stories by recognizing cultural difference between the person of the therapist and the consultant. She situated the discussion in a narrative therapy framework informed by traditions of her own cultural upbringing in Colombia, including the literary genre of magical realism; and her experiences with bilingualism as an immigrant in the U.S.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:37:18-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

October, 2015 Collab Salon: Exploring new possibilities for outsider witnessing

Over the years, The Collab developed a process for witnessing each other's discoveries and dilemmas. We called this discussion forum, 'I need a witness!" Now that Zoom makes it possible to meet in real-time, we'd like to think carefully together about how we might adapt intentional witnessing practices to bear witness to developments in Collab Salon members' work. Our intent is to co-create our own process for respectfully witnessing each other through this digital media. Prior to this Collab Salon, we asked members to review some of your own experiences with intentional witnessing, reflecting teamwork, and to send us your favorite outsider witness handouts with simple guidelines for reflection. After reviewing possibilities, Mike Giancola, Charley Lang and Will Sherwin created our first cyber- interview with outsider witnessing.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T09:08:34-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

November, 2015 Collab Salon: Case Studies: Writing, Mapping and Learning Practice

Case stories or teaching tales are widespread in every professional jurisdiction. They provide for something other than maps or manuals. They are primarily an oral literature that circulate in any profession from senior to junior, from peer to peer. They embody far more than the formalized and canonical 'rules and regulations' of manuals and the far more informal 'map' which proposes how you get from one place to another and what considerations you might have to keep in mind as you go. Case stories intend to do far more than either and perhaps can be best distinguished as providing the listener/reader with a sense of having been there.

Peggy Sax2024-03-24T22:20:36-04:00July 8th, 2016|0 Comments

December 2015 Collab Salon: Recuperating Michael White and recuriositizing narrative therapy

Our December Collab Salon discussion traced some of Michael White's contributions to our thinking through the gift of reviewing very rich workshop notes from 1991-2007 by Linda Moxley and Sarah Hughes.Linda Moxley graciously shared her meticulous notes from two of Michael White's workshops (1991; 2007), and then aided us in rescuing the said from the saying; together we evoked Michael's intentions, paying particular attention to themes, shifts in language and zig-zagging. Michael talked about conversations zigging back and forth in a number of ways: between action and identity questions; between remote past, possible future and present; between what is known and familiar and what is possible to know; between problem stories and stories that fit with intentions. Philosophy brought richness to Michael's ideas. We also applied the zigzagging metaphor around Michael's love of building on ideas from others and weaving these into his thinking and practices across time. Honoring Michael's legacy means not limiting our thinking, searching for many possibilities, and remembering "No correct route."

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:40:16-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

January 2016 Collab Salon: Re-imagining Narrative Practice: Where might narrative therapy go now?

In December, 2015, Linda Moxley opened a conversation about Recuperating Michael White and recuriositizing narrative therapy. Having graciously shared her meticulous notes from two of Michael White’s workshops (1991; 2007), Linda notes movingly 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. Now, our January Collab Salon continued this conversation with a focus on bringing Michael’s inspiration forward into the future. As featured presenters, Sarah Hughes and Linda Moxley began the conversation by sharing some of their own thoughts as to where Michael might have gone if he had the chance. Others then joined in to share their ideas about where narrative therapy might go now with a particular intrigue regarding narrative and the performative turn.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:41:06-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

February 21, 2016 Collab Salon: Exemplary Tales: Writing, Mapping and Learning Practice, Part 2

Narrative therapy has depended heavily on the exemplary tale (otherwise known as the ‘case story’) as one of its most characteristic means by which its practice is told. Michael White had a mastery of such a form, and now David Epston continues in this tradition. In November 2015, we were delighted to welcome David, Sasha Pilkington & Kay Ingamells (Auckland), and Travis Heath (Denver) for a special two hour session of the Collab Salon about using case studies as pedagogy (Collab members can review this Past Salon here). This time, David was accompanied by his colleague Tom Carlson (North Dakota, USA) to share what they are learning from using exemplary tales as a pedagogy with Tom’s students (Sarah and Anna) at North Dakota State University. Sasha Pilkington & Kay Ingamells also joined us. This was such a lively and thought provoking Collab Salon!

Peggy Sax2024-03-24T22:32:28-04:00July 8th, 2016|0 Comments

March 20, 2016 Collab Salon: Bridging Narrative Therapy and Psychiatry

What do narrative therapy and narrative psychiatry have in common? Our three co-presenters took turns sharing different experiences with bridging narratively-informed psychotherapy, psychiatric care and mental health treatment. The conversation focused on about common core principles and practices for therapeutic conversations that foster resilience, employ externalizing practices to develop culturally-contextualized understandings of problems that are separate from the person’s identity, and build on the family’s or individual’s values, cultural context and vision of well-being.

Peggy Sax2021-06-15T05:16:48-04:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

April 17, 2016 Collab Salon: Narrative Therapy in Wonderland – Book Launch!

It was a delight to join David Marsten, David Epston & Laurie Markham to learn more about their book, Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children's Imaginative know-how. Soon-to-be published by WW. Norton, this innovative book makes a significant contribution to recognizing and utilizing the power of children’s voices and imagination in narrative therapy. In this Collab Salon, we also focused on applications in working with adults.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:25:30-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

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