Journal of Narrative Family Therapy

The Journal of Narrative Family Therapy (JNFT) is a free online journal, dedicated to re-imagining the future of narrative family therapy practice in a unique collaborative, anti-journal format.

It is our hope that JNFT will serve as a spark that reignites the spirit of adventure, innovation and discovery that is so central to the commitments and concerns of narrative family therapy practice. As an anti-journal we seek the publication of innovative papers that attempt to capture practices and ideas that are ‘in their very making.’ We are not seeking papers that are ‘polished’ or that attempt to present ‘completed’ ideas. Rather, it is our hope that JNFT will serve as a co-laboratory of invention, where half-baked and novel ideas and practices will be shared with the broader narrative family therapy community in the midst of their very invention. With this purpose in mind, JNFT will not operate like a traditional journal where papers, and the practices and ideas within them, are already several years old before they are published. Instead, JNFT is committed to making the work of author/innovators available as quickly as possible and encourage the participatory engagement of other narrative family therapists who will engage directly with author/innovators to study, explore, try-out, and expand the ideas to the furthest extent possible.

David Epston & Tom Stone Carlson

With a spirit of adventure in mind, David Epston & Tom Stone Carlson announced the launching of Narrative Family Therapy (JNFT) – a new journal dedicated to reimagining the future of narrative family therapy practice.

It is our hope that JNFT will serve as a spark that reignites the spirit of adventure, innovations, and discovery that is so central to the commitments and concerns of narrative practice. In order to facilitate this, we have every intention that JNFT will operate more like an anti-journal through the publication of innovative papers that attempt to capture practices and ideas that inform them that are ‘in their very making.’ We are not seeking papers that are ‘polished’ or that attempt to present ‘completed’ ideas. Rather, it is our hope that JNFT will serve as a co-laboratory of invention, where half-baked and novel ideas and practices will be shared with the broader narrative family therapy community in the midst of their very invention.

As an anti-journal with a focus on innovation, JNFT does not accept the submission of completed papers. They welcome “half-baked ideas.”

Because we are committed to the continual innovation and expansion of narrative family therapy practices, we ask that author/innovators submit a proposal that outlines what they have been up to in their work (e.g., the particular practice that they are innovating), what they have discovered so far, and how their work might reimagine the future of narrative family therapy practice.