By witnessing this heartfelt conversation, you’ll catch the contagious, creative spirit of narrative practice and the healing role of storytelling in therapy. David Epston revisits the early correspondence with Michael White, the cases that shaped their thinking, and the unexpected ways that ordinary client language became the source code of an entire approach.
Travis Heath and Tom Carlson — both long-time scholars and practitioners of narrative therapy — guide the dialogue toward what’s most useful for working clinicians today: the practice of “outsider witnessing,” the use of letters and documents in therapy, and how autoethnography offers a way for therapists to keep their own stories alongside their clients’ without conflating the two.
This session is suitable for therapists at any stage of training.
