Terminal illness, death and dying are universal human experiences, but discussing them can be challenging. This video demonstrates the use of a therapeutic conversation guide, ‘STEPS Together’, providing a structure to employ narrative practices to support people to develop…
This presentation describes Beck’s work as a counselor in an in-patient mental health crisis treatment program in Calgary, Canada. The goal of this project was to support nurturance and growth of narrative ideas and work in a setting that…
In this week’s Friday Afternoon Video, Beata Mukarusanga speaks about the use of gardening metaphors in work with adults and young people in Rwanda. As she discusses, many Rwandans have experiences of farming and gardening and readily took up…
In our Friday Afternoon Video this week, narrative practitioner Sophie Shuang Cao from China introduces the entanglement of individualism and collectivism in contemporary Chinese culture. Throughout, she shares two stories to present how these discourses influence the problems, and…
In this Friday Afternoon Video, Ian Maund traces the development of the Soundtrack of Your Life (SOYL) narrative therapy methodology. In doing so, a practice story that trials its application emerges. SOYL uses folk psychology to engage young people…
In this Friday Afternoon Video, Tarn Kaldor explores the effects of ‘the measurement’ on young people and the development of preferred identity school report cards. It shares stories of young people challenging the imposed definitions of their “performance” and “normality”…
In this Friday Afternoon Video, Serge Nyirinkwaya draws from narrative practices – re-authoring conversations, the absent but implicit and collective narrative practices – and from experiential learning models - as he tells his story of practice: a playful approach…
