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Narrative Therapy
Re Authoring Practices
Anne Murray
Educational Psychologist
Narrative Practice
Origins of Narrative Practice
• Developed by Michael White and David
Epston
• Influenced by Bruner, Vygotsky and
Foucault
• Founded the family therapy centre in
Auckland and Dulwich centre
• Six kinds of key conversations
Narrative Practice
Person is not the problem Self/Identity is constructed, culturally and
contextually
Self is relational
Problem is the problem Is external to person
Mis-represented, mis-taken identity
Exists within culturally specific discourses
Change process
Attention to unique outcomes
Attention to and development of alternative,
preferred identities
Standing up to cultural oppression: resistance to
problems and cultural dominant ideologies
Trust in one’s knowledge and experience
Principles
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• Post-Structural / Postmodern
• Awareness of power discourse
• Absence of “Truth”: World is Socially constructed
• Stories emerge from experience
• Dominant and marginalized stories need to be heard
• Identity is socially constructed through dialogue and
experience
• Need to examine different relationships with problems
• Importance of community
Assumptions
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Appreciative Enquiry
Processes
• Fosters positive relationships,
• Respectful of personal stories
• Build around what works rather than trying to fix what doesn’t
• Create new meanings by drawing on stories of concrete successes
• Create more of these successes
• Re-Authoring Processes
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1. Naming and Externalizing the Problem
2. Re-authoring Personal Stories-focus on unique outcomes /exceptions
3. Connecting with Past & Building Future Success- Re-Membering
4. Creating Communities of Concern
5. Reflecting teams: Outsider Witnessing
6. Projecting into the future (preferred future)–new possibilities
Key Elements of Narrative practice
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Re-Authoring Process
Problem saturated stories
Mutual influence
Unique outcomes
Preferred stories
Thicken preferred Stories
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Naming the problem
Talk about most recent experience of the problem occurring
• Tell me about the most recent time when trouble was with you? Tell me more about this idea that you are naughty?
• What are the effects or influence of the problem
• When this trouble gets hold of you what does it get you to do
• Evaluate these – What’s this like for you?
• Does it make things better?
• Justification – ‘what are your reasons for this not being alright ?‘ Why isn’t this ok for you?
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Externalise the problem
• Examples
– Sneaky poo
– Worry Dragon
– Little Miss naughty
– Angry Monster
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Re-Author the Alternate Story
• Unique outcomes, exceptions, sparkling moments or "where the problem fails"
• Examination of fit with one's values (attention to intentions, purpose, hopes, principles, commitments and wishes)
• Thickening descriptions (rich description vs. thin conclusion)
• Name alternative story
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• Outsider witnessing (reflecting
teams)
• Re-membering practices
• Leagues of support
• Letter writing/create texts
Creating Communities of Concern
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Outsider Witnessing
• Empathic response/ what connects, resonates with listener- what do you hear
• Hearing a preferred story not heard before
• Outside witnesses can benefit too
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Re- Membering
• Context – find person from past
• Contribution of this person
• Shaped sense of who they are
• Contribution of subject to this
person’s life
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Leagues of Support
• Building up audience for new
identity in any way possible
• Building team to help fight the
problem
• Connect to past supports
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Using Positive Texts
• Texts play a role in re-membering;
• Help thicken story of preferred
identity by providing evidence of
achievements
– Letters-Sticky Notes-Post Cards-
Documents
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Preferred Futures
• Preferred future
• Preferred identities
• Preferred stories
• Constructed from:
–Values-Intentions-Purpose-
Hopes-Commitments