Works by Michael
The incorporation of the lost relationship in the resolution of grief
What is "Say hullo again: The incorporation of the lost relationship in the resolution of grief"?
Events, linked in a sequence, through time, according to a plot
What is a story?
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA
Who is Lauren?
Naming, Effects, Evaluation, Justification
What is the Statement of Position map 1?
Bailey and Christina met here
What is the first-year internship? or Simmons College
White and Epston introduction to their therapy that is based on the assumption that people experience problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not sufficiently represent their lived experience.
What is "Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends"?
Stories are linked in a plot according to an individual’s set of meanings, as well as the meanings ascribed by the culture, family, work, and society that surround the individual
What is meaning making?
Boston College, Boston MA
Who is Rebecca, Anjali, and Madison?
Landscape of Action and Landscape of Identity
What is the Re-Authoring map?
The first book we ever read in our group supervision
Provides practical and accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice
What is "Maps of Narrative Therapy"?
A process of linguistic separation invites us to see problems as something we are in relationship with, as opposed to something we have inside of us
What is externalizing?
Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
Who is Henry?
Richly describing preferred accounts of identity, knowledges and skills of living that have been co-generated with significant memberships of people's lives
What is the Re-membering map?
You could say March 2021 or you could say August 2022
When did Mountain View Therapy begin?
Never before has the sense of being a failure to be an adequate person been so freely available to people, and never before has it been so willingly and routinely dispensed.
What is "Addressing Personal Failure"?
No ONE story is capable of containing all of the events that occur within our lives. In order to construct a “coherent” story of identity, we discard, ignore or dismiss contradictory information
What is multi-storied life?
Springfield College, Springfield, MA
Who is Abolee?
"known and familiar" to what is "possible to know"
The name "Mountain View Therapy" is based on a training by her
Who is Maggie Carey?
Priority given to the redevelopment and reinvigoration of a ‘sense of myself’ in working with people who have been subject to trauma
What is "Gazing Less Directly at Trauma: The 'Absent but Implicit' as an Alternative to a 'Sense of Myself' as Deficit"?
Strategic interventions that are never neutral in their effects, generate an experience, provide new understandings for the person being asked, and help people recognize exceptions, solutions, useful moments from their own history they might have otherwise disregarded
What are questions?
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Who is Deborah?
Intentions and Purposes, Values and Beliefs, Hopes and Dreams, Principles, Commitments
What is the Action to Identity map?
The answer to any predicament
Do Narrative Therapy?