Michael White's Narrative Therapy

Introduction I have come to understand Narrative Therapy as a way of being, a practice that involves an abundance of curiosity and respecting that insider knowledge we each possess about ourselves and our identity (Laura Beres, personal communication, January 10, 2017). Michael White described narrative therapy as something that should not be reduced to just a method, but instead is perhaps “an epistemology, a philosophy, a personal commitment, a politics, a practice, a life’” (Furlong, 2008, p. 404 as cited in Beres, 2014). This is something that I appreciate about this style of practice, as I think it can be incorporated into the way we start dialogues with clients and how we talk to ourselves and colleagues.
Joanna Bedggood (personal communication,