AWESOME ALFIE Narrative means to awesome ends Clare Jolly. Plenary. 22.04.2016. ARU
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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