What is Narrative Therapy?

Narrative therapy is a collaborative and non-pathologizing approach to counseling and community work that centers people as the experts of their own lives. Narrative therapy is based on the belief that people make meaning of their lives through stories. The stories people live by are not a mirror of a person’s life but are actually shaping of people’s lives and identities. Narrative therapy suggests that stories are not neutral, and are understood to be influenced by a broader context — particularly in the various dimensions of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and ability.

This workshop is for people who are new(er) to narrative therapy and interested in learning (or learning more) about its collaborative, respectful, and socially just ways of understanding people and problems. By refusing to locate problems inside of people, and by always seeing problems within the broader cultural context in which these problems were produced, narrative therapy stands against the individualizing and pathologizing of people’s suffering. The intention of this workshop is to offer participants a taste of the politics and ethics that guide narrative therapy practices, and an opportunity to consider how and in what ways these values and ethics fit and/or don’t fit with their own values, ethics, and preferred ways of being in this work.

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