AWESOME ALFIENarrative means to awesome ends

Clare Jolly. Plenary. 22.04.2016. ARU

Once upon A TimeA philosophy of therapy was born

Alfie and His Family  

Storytime For narrative therapists, stories consist of: Events linked in sequence Across time According to a plot Alfie had experienced several incidents of

“naughty behaviour” during the last year, forming the plot of Alfie as a bad boy

Alfie and the family now held this dominant story line as his identity and any variations from it are missed

Narrative in a Nanosecond Narrative Therapy uses questions to: Generate experience Separate people from problems Identify preferred directions

Fishing for clues…. My job was to help the family to find and

value the unique outcomes that could form the beginnings of a new story

….And Finding Fishing The one good thing the family talked

about was fishing. Alfie described fishing as “Awesome.”

For narrative therapists, stories consist of:Eventslinked in sequenceAcross timeAccording to a plotAlfie had experienced several incidents of “naughty behaviour” during the last year, forming the plot of Alfie as a bad boyAlfie and the family now held this dominant story line as his identity and any variations from it are missedAlfie experienced several incidents of “Awesome” behaviour during the last year, forming a hidden plot of Alfie as a good –or Awesome!-boy.

Telling a New StoryFinding and thickening alternative story lines

Michael White’s MapsLANDSCAPE OF ACTION LANDSCAPE OF IDENTITY

Personal Appeal I love to write I love exceptions

Personal ReflexivityGRAPH WITH PLOT POINTS SONG WITH SUBJUGATED

TUNES (STORIES) graph https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rj30_lTdTY

Relational Reflexivity

OMG!

And they all lived...

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