Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and promote change. Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell our stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and ease our sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdoms from the field of narrative therapy, this book is designed to help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives. The book invites readers to take a new look at their own stories and to find significance in events often neglected, to find sparkling actions that are often discounted, and to find solutions to problems and predicaments in unexpected places. Readers are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like the externalizing problems - 'the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem' -and the concept of "re-membering" one's life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises demonstrate how these ideas have helped many people overcome intense hardship and will help readers make these techniques their own. The book also outlines practical strategies for reclaiming and celebrating one's experience in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging. Filled with relatable examples, useful exercises, and informative illustrations, Retelling the Stories of Our Lives leads readers on a path to reclaim their past and re-envision their future. 25 illustrations

Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience

Self-Help

Denborough, David

Personal Transformation

W.W.Norton&Company

Can narrative practices be used to respond to injustice and social suffering? Can they spark and sustain social action? In response to these questions, this book offers stories from Australia, Uganda, Zimambwe, Turkey, Kurdistan, Myanmar, Spain, and West Papua. Along the way, David Denborough brings new thinking tools to the field of narrative practice by drawing on the writings of feminist economists, narrative media scholars, social movement theorists and others. This book introduces new concepts such as 'unexpected solidarities' and expands on existing concepts such as 'enabling people to speak through us not just to us'. It also traces histories - of collective narrative practice in general and the Tree of Life narrative approach in particular - to assist practitioners in diverse contexts to continue to invent, diversify and democratise the field of narrative practice. David Denborough is a community worker, writer, songwriter and teacher at Dulwich Centre. He also coordinates the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work at the University of Melbourne.

Do you want to hear a story? Adventures in collective narrative practice

Dulwich Centre Publications

Political Dictionary: For the field of narrative practice

- Será que as práticas narrativas podem ser utilizadas para reagir à injustiça e ao sofrimento social?- Será que elas podem dar início e sustentar ações sociais?Como resposta a estas perguntas, esse livro oferece histórias da Austrália, Uganda, Zimbábue, Turquia, Curdistão, Myanmar, Espanha e Papua-Oeste.Ao longo do caminho, David Denborough traz novas ferramentas de pensamento para o campo da prática narrativa extraídas dos escritos de economistas feministas, estudiosos da mídia narrativa, teóricos dos movimentos sociais e outros.Esse livro introduz novos conceitos como 'solidariedades inesperadas' e expande aqueles já existentes tais como 'capacitar as pessoas a falar através de nós, e não somente para nós'.Ele também remonta às histórias - da prática narrativa coletiva de forma geral, e da Árvore da Vida de forma especí ca - para auxiliar aqueles que as utilizam a continuar inventando, diversi cando e democratizando o campo da prática narrativa.David Denborough é um assistente social, escritor, compositor e professor no Dulwich Centre. Ele também coordena o mestrado em Terapia Narrativa e Trabalho Comunitário na Universidade de Melbourne.

Você quer ouvir uma história?: Aventuras em práticas narrativas coletivas

In these personal and thoughtful interviews, influential family therapists from different parts of the world invite the reader into their worldview and the history that has shaped it. In some circumstances they also offer reflections and regrets about aspects of past practices, and they speak of what continues to inspire them.

Family Therapy: Exploring the field's past, present and possible futures

This anthology contains a diversity of accessible, engaging, practice-based papers by narrative practitioners around the world. Articles include theoretical considerations; working with individuals, groups, and communities; co-research; and an approach to community mental health. The collection is rounded out by a collection of practice notes by Michael White. If you are wanting to understand more about narrative therapy and the different ways in which people are exploring and experimenting with narrative ways of working, this book will inform, challenge, and inspire.

Introducing Narrative Therapy: A collection of practice-based writing

White, Cheryl

This book introduces a range of hopeful methodologies to respond to individuals, groups and communities who are experiencing hardship. These approaches are deliberately easy to engage with and can be used with children, young people and adults. The methodologies described include: Collective narrative documents, Enabling contributions through exchanging messages and convening definitional ceremonies, The Tree of Life: responding to vulnerable children, The Team of Life: giving young people a sporting chance, Checklists of social and psychological resistance, Collective narrative timelines, Maps of history, and Songs of sustenance. To illustrate these approaches, stories are shared from Australia, Southern Africa, Israel, Ireland, USA, Palestine, Rwanda and elsewhere. This book also breaks new ground in considering how responding to trauma also involves responding to social issues. How can our work contribute not only to ‘healing’ but also to ‘social movement’? As we work with the stories of people’s lives can we contribute to the remaking of folk culture? And is it possible to move beyond the dichotomy of individualism/collectivism? Collective narrative practices are now being engaged with in many different parts of the world. This book invites the reader to engage with these approaches in their own ways.

Collective Narrative Practice: Responding to individuals, groups, and communities who have experienced trauma

Was vermittelt Menschen in existenziellen Krisen Zuversicht und Zutrauen in sich und ihre Umwelt? Wie lassen sich Faden der eigenen Lebensgeschichte neu spinnen? Wie konnen neue Erzahlwirklichkeiten entstehen, die Hoffnung geben und starken? David Denborough hat im Geiste Michael Whites einen umfassenden, leicht verstandlichen Uberblick uber die theoretischen und praktischen Grundlagen der Narrativen Therapie verfasst. Anhand von zahlreichen Fallbeispielen und Ubungen veranschaulicht er, wie sich die Kernideen des narrativen Ansatzes in der Praxis umsetzen lassen. Denborough zeigt, wie Menschen mithilfe von Neuerzahlungen uber aufgedrangte Grenzen hinauswachsen konnen - Grenzen sowohl im Sinne des bisherigen Lebens als auch bedrohlicher ausserer Umstande. Das Buch beschaftigt sich mit dem Umgang mit traumatisierenden Ereignissen wie Missbrauch, Krieg, Vertreibung, Folter und geht auf hilfreiche Ansatze im Umgang mit Alter, Trauer, Tod und schwerwiegenden Erkrankungen ein, auch im Hinblick auf das eigene Leben. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Anerkennung von Kompetenz, selbst wenn sie aus Leid gewonnen ist. Anhand von konkreten Lebensbezugen vermittelt das Buch verstandlich, wie Menschen in belastenden Lebenssituationen Kraft schopfen und wie Fachkrafte sie dabei unterstutzen konnen.

Geschichten Des Lebens Neu Gestalten: Grundlagen Und Praxis Der Narrativen Therapie (German Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co

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