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Conversations about gender, culture, violence & narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures Edited by Angel Yuen & Cheryl White This inspiring book consists of writings from women of many cultures about initiatives, projects and ways of working to respond to violence. This collection will be powerfully relevant to practitioners working with individuals, families and/or communities whose lives are affected by violence and abuse. It includes practice-based chapters describing narrative ways of working with those who have experienced violence and also creative ways of engaging with men and women who have enacted violence against others. "In this book, women from many different cultures convey very thoughtful approaches to the task of stepping away from a violent way of living. The therapy work is often precisely described in clear steps that are very accessible for others to use. There are also many detailed examples of types of authentication - documents, outsider witnesses and even international correspondence. Finally, the impact of broader discourses regarding gender roles, femininity and masculinity, as well as the role of racism, are all acknowledged. The chapters of this book will strengthen my resolve."  Norma Akamatsu (USA) "I really appreciate how the work of women of many cultures to address issues of violence has been documented in this book. Having access to these stories will encourage those of us who are trying to respond to these issues in our own communities. This book challenges us when it asks questions such as: * Has the professionalisation of our work closed off the possibilities for grass roots community action to address violence against women? * And if so, how can we turn this around? How can our work support local community initiatives? This collection inspires and challenges. It encourages us, the reader, to notice and support those who are already taking action to address violence. And it encourages us to take action ourselves."  Tamalieutu Kiwi Tamasese (Samoa/New Zealand) "I am left with new hope, new ideas on how community initiatives might help with stopping the escalating violence in homes and neighbourhoods. Such interventions may in the end be our best hope for preventing violence and its devastating consequences." Anita Franklin (UK)  Click here to read the preface Maps of Narrative Practice - by Michael White  In this long-awaited book, Michael White outlines the key maps of narrative practice - externalising, re-authoring, re-membering, definitional ceremonies, scafolding conversations and ways of highlighting unique outcomes. This easy-to-read and yet rigorous book contains moving transcripts of conversationsand detailed explanations of practice. This book pulls together and summarises the key therapuetic ideas and practices that have come to be known as narrative therapy. It is an ideal starting point for practitioners exploring narrative ideas but is also recommended for experiened narrative practitioners. This book is published by W.W. Norton.

Tree of Life: A narrative approach to working with vulnerable children. Presented by Ncazelo Ncube, Filmed in Arua, Uganda This is the first DVD produced by the Dulwich Centre Institute of Community Practice! Filmed in Arua, Uganda, it describes 'The Tree of Life Exercise' which is a creative and easy to use narrative approach to working with vulnerable children. This DVD will provide invaluable support and ideas for practitioners working with children. This approach enables children to speak about their lives in ways that make them stronger. It also provides a forum for children to speak collectively about difficulties they are facing and ways of responding to these. It was developed during a workshop at Masiye Camp in Zimbabwe in 2005 and since then has been put to use in many different countries and contexts. 'The Tree of Life Exercise' was published in the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work (2006 #1): 'The Tree of Life Project: Using narrative ideas in work with vulnerable children in South Africa'. This DVD was filmed in Arua, Uganda at the TPO Training Centre in November 2006. It is 70 minutes long.

A community of ideas: Behind the scenes by Cheryl White & David Denborough The last twenty years has seen the creation of a 'community of ideas' linked to narrative therapy and community work and we conceptualise our work at Dulwich Centre Publications as occurring within this 'community'. This book describes ways of linking practitioners through the written word; ways of hosting conferences as  community events; and ways of organising training programs that are congruent with narrative ideas. Most significantly it contains stories of adventures from 'behind the scenes'. Over years, we realise that we've been asked some questions about our work many times: I'd like to write up my work for publication but I don't know where to start, do you have any handy hints? I'm thinking of starting up a newsletter for those interested in narrative therapy in my own area. Do you have any suggestions? We're going to hold our first conference for local therapists. What considerations do you think through before your conferences in relation to bringing together diverse groups of people? We teach on a training course for therapists. Have you found ways of developing training programs that are congruent with narrative ideas? With all the people you meet and talk to in so many different places, you must have some great stories to tell. Have you ever thought of writing some of them down? This book is an attempt to answer these questions! This book will be relevant to anyone interested in narrative therapy ideas and especially to counsellors, therapists and community workers who wish to be linked with others in this work.

Bedtime Stories for Tired Therapists Edited by Leela Anderson This collection of moving accounts of therapists' personal journeys reflects on the questions, ‘Why do we work in this profession and given the emotional demands, why do we stay? How does the work challenge and change ways of seeing the world?’ "The ‘culture of psychotherapy’ has encouraged a detachment, an immunity, a looking down from a professional position of ‘expert knowledge.’ The contributors to Bedtime Stories for Tired Therapists counter this by revealing and honouring their personal experiences of this work. Such candour is unusual to be written up but will be a relief to the rest of us who talk to ourselves and our trusted friends and colleagues about similar matters. My thanks to the authors of this unique book." David Epston, Family Therapy Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.

Beyond the Prison: Gathering dreams of freedom Edited by David Denborough  This book is a heartfelt invitation to look beyond our taken-for-granted notions of crime, punishment and imprisonment. Beyond the Prison is a passionate expose of the politics of imprisonment, as well as an inspiring account of alternatives. Addressing issues of class, gender and race, and exploring the beliefs and ways of being which permeate the prison system, David draws primarily on his work with men in a maximum security prison, as well as conversations with a range of people in Australia, New Zealand, and North America.

"Catching Up" with David Epston: A Collection of Narrative Practice-based Papers published between 1991 & 1996 Ever wanted to catch up with David Epston over a cup of tea or coffee and talk through the most significant aspects of his work over the last six or so years? If so, this thoughtful collection of practice-based papers is for you! Written in an engaging and entertaining style, the papers in this book trace the influences in David’s recent work and explore in detail his therapeutic consultations. Specific sections address internalising / externalising conversations, celebrating specialness, letter writing and his approach with so-called anorexia/bulimia.

Experience, Contradiction, Narrative & Imagination  by David Epston and Michael White This volume is a collection of papers that were published by David Epston and Michael White between 1989 and 1991. The purpose in making these papers available in one source book is so that they can be read together. They cover a range of subjects including: personal reminiscence; particular therapeutic practices; practical approaches to various problems; theoretical, political and philosophical considerations; structures and issues pertaining to training and supervision; processes of questioning in the co-authorship of preferred stories. One of the aspects of the work reported in this collection that is of central importance to Michael and David is the spirit of adventure. These papers will introduce readers to this spirit and, as well, encourage readers to embark on further adventures of their own.

Extending Narrative Therapy Edited by Cheryl White & David Denborough   This book contains papers that have been published by Dulwich Centre Publications in the last few years, all of which take the practices of narrative therapy into new territories. These papers extend on possibilities in relation to externalising conversations, group work, and community work. Other sections include 'In our own voice', in which authors write of the ways they have re-authored aspects of their own experience; 'Talking about sexual abuse'; and 'New ways of introducing narrative therapy'. This book has been put together for practitioners who wish to keep in touch with the latest ways in which people are extending narrative ideas. Contents

Family therapy: exploring the field's past, present and possible futures  Edited by David Denborough   In these personal and thoughtful interviews, influential family therapists from different parts of the world invite the reader into their worldview and the history that has shaped it. In some circumstances they also offer reflections and regrets about aspects of past practices, and they speak of what continues to inspire them. This is a friendly and personal book which enables readers to engage with the history and diversity of ideas of the field of family therapy and also to get to know, in some small way, those whose stories are contained in these pages.  View the contents and read the introduction and an interview from this book!

Invitations to Responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent & abusive by Alan Jenkins   This influential and compassionate book explores ways of working with adult men and young men who are violent and abusive. It gives practical examples of how they can be invited to discover more sensitive, respectful and personally rewarding ways of relating to others.  Contents

Just Therapy - A journey by Charles Waldegrave, Kiwi Tamasese, Flora Tuhaka & Warihi Campbell This book brings together in one volume the work  of the Just Therapy Team which has, over the last two decades, inspired and challenged therapists and community workers in many different countries and contexts. Their introduction of the term 'Just Therapy' and their determination to bring issues of gender, culture and socioeconomic justice into therapeutic considerations have had powerful implications. So too, has their example of taking the personal stories of those who consult them as therapists into broader political and policy arenas. The Just Therapy Team's committed, dignified and caring cultural partnerships have signalled alternative ways of conceptualising working relationships. Their descriptions of therapy as a sacred encounter, their honouring of Indigenous traditions of spirituality, and the ways in which they always seek culturally appropriate healing ways have changed forever our understandings of the responsibilities of therapists and healers.  This book describes their work in detail. We hope it will act as a resource both for those familiar with the work of the Just Therapy Team and those seeking an introduction to their exciting and challenging ideas.

Narrative Practice and Exotic Lives: Resurrecting diversity in everyday life by Michael White Seeking ways of working with couples that dissolve conflict? Looking for therapeutic options to address the sense of personal failure that is so commonly experienced by those who seek counselling? Hoping to undertake journeys in your work to fascinating and unexpected destinations? Wanting to understand how considerations of history and culture shape the therapeutic endeavour? Determined to assist people to free themselves from negative conclusions they have formed about their identities and relationships? In this book, amusing and powerfully moving transcripts of therapeutic conversations sit alongside wide-ranging explorations and explanations of narrative practice. The papers in this book describe an approach to therapeutic enquiry that contributes to people finding themselves interested in novel understandings of the events of their lives, curious about aspects of their lives that have been forsaken, fascinated with neglected territories of their identities, and, at times, awed by their own responses to the predicaments of their existence. It is an approach which enables the identification of ‘extraordinary worlds’ and assists in the resurrection of diversity in everyday life.  More

Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions Compiled by Shona Russell & Maggie Carey How do you know what to externalise? How do you begin a re-authoring conversation? Why is it important for there to be witnesses to preferred stories and what are definitional ceremonies? When are you likely to engage in a re-membering conversation? What is poststructuralism and how is it relevant to the therapy world? What is the fit between feminism and some of the practices of narrative therapy? This book offers answers to these questions and many, many others! It also provides detailed examples of therapeutic conversations shaped by the narrative practices of externalising, re-membering, outsider witnessing and re-authoring. This book has been created from responses from therapists from Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, England, Canada, South Africa, Mexico and Austria, and therefore provides glimpses of therapeutic practice in many different parts of the world. If you are trying to engage with narrative practices in your therapy or community work then this easy-to-read and yet thorough and rigorous book has been created with you in mind. We recommend this book as the perfect companion to 'What is Narrative therapy: An easy-to-read introduction' by Alice Morgan.  More

Narrative Therapy with children and their families By Michael White and Alice Morgan   This long-awaited book brings together two popular authors – Michael White and Alice Morgan. Here they share stories from their counselling practice with children and their families and provide explanations of the thinking that shapes these conversations. Detailed explanations are provided of externalising practices, scaffolding conversations, ways of inviting significant others to act as an audience to consultations with children, and considerations relating to the position of the therapist.  Moving and amusing stories of work with children and their families are also included and the following questions are considered:  When there is conflict between parents and children, how can therapists create a context for collaboration? How can counsellors respond to children who have experienced significant trauma? When a therapy session with a child is going nowhere, what might be helpful to reflect upon? How can narrative practices shape child protection inquiries? If your work involves conversations with children, this easy-to-read and rigorous book, will prove to be a treasured companion.

Narrative therapy with couples... and a whole lot more: a collection of papers, essays and exercises by Jill Freedman and Gene Combs  In this thoughtful and practice-based collection, popular authors and teachers Jill Freedman and Gene Combs introduce the reader to the complexities and possibilities of narrative therapy with couples. Five separate papers offer thorough explorations of theory and practice. Detailed examples of therapeutic work with heterosexual couples are provided. This book also includes a number of delightful chapters about narrative work with children, as well as a range of essays and exercises. For those working therapeutically with couples, families and/or children, this book is bound to become a trusted resource to turn to again and again when in need of reflection, clarification or new ideas. Contents

The Personal is the Professional: Therapists reflect on their families, lives and work  Collected by Jane Hales and Cheryl White.   This book is a celebration of relationships and stories. Over the thirteen years of working together with Dulwich Centre Publications, Jane and Cheryl have been witness to the richness of the stories of many therapists who have visited the Dulwich Centre. It has been this sharing of stories that has given life and inspiration to the publications. Within this book, therapists share the personal stories that inform the work they do. Their writings encourage us to think about what it is in our lives that leads us to creativity in therapy. They invite us to consider the relationship between our own lives and the lives of people with whom we work.

Queer counselling & narrative practice  Edited by David Denborough  The writings in this book represent a small part of a broader transformation that is occurring within the health professions. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- and bi-gendered experience is disrupting the very assumptions upon which these professions are built. The boundaries of nuclear family life are dissolving and the taken-for-granted is being replaced with the unexpected. The papers in this book describe some of the dilemmas, challenges and joys that this is making possible. Contents

Re-Authoring Lives: Interviews and Essays by Michael White    This book is a collection of inspiring interviews and essays. You will especially appreciate this book if you are: looking for hope and new visions in your work with people who are considered to have chronic problems; interested in literature and would like to find ways to express this in your work; developing ideas for consulting with people who have survived abuse; conscious of issues of power and want to make your practice more accountable to the people who seek your help; interested in recent developments in social theory and their implications for practice; and/or wanting to work collaboratively with others in the generation of new possibilities for their lives. View the contents and read a chapter from this book.

Responding to Violence: a collection of papers relating to child sexual abuse and violence in intimate relationships This book contains thoughtful practice-based written by therapists and community workers about ways of responding to violence. The papers in the first section of the book focus on ways of working with those who have experienced child sexual abuse, while the papers in the second section focus on violence in intimate relationships. The third section describes ways of working with men and young men who have enacted violence. Complex issues are considered such as the question of forgiveness; ways of acknowledging and responding to women's outrage; the experience of men who have been subjected to child sexual abuse; and matters of culture and sexuality. This book offers practical and hopeful ideas for therapists  and community workers who are responding to people's experiences of violence.

Trauma: Narrative responses to traumatic experience Edited by David Denborough In recent years, the field of ‘trauma work’ has grown exponentially and the increased interest in these matters offers many possibilities. This wide-ranging, thoughtful and practice-based book provides clear explanations about how to use narrative ideas to respond to adults, couples and/or children who have endured traumatic experience. Key themes include:   ways of ensuring that children (and adults) are not re-traumatised during counselling; ‘double listening’ – to listen not only to the story of trauma but also to the story of how the person has responded to the experiences they have endured;  new approaches to ‘trauma de-briefing’; ways to unearth and acknowledge the values, skills and knowledge of those who have experienced multiple traumas;     creative methods for responding to workers’ experience; and ideas for taking care not to replicate forms of psychological colonization when understandings about trauma work are ‘exported’ across cultures. Stories of inspiring work from Australia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel and South Africa are also included. We hope these stories will spark conversations in your own context and lead to continuing creativity in your work. If you are responding to people who have experienced trauma, or if you have endured traumatic experience yourself, this book may prove to be a loyal, trustworthy and indispensable companion. The papers included here have been previously published in the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work

Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger by Barbara Wingard & Jane Lester   In this graceful, strong and thoughtful book, Barbara Wingard and Jane Lester relate stories of their lives and work as two Indigenous Australian women. These stories offer hopeful and practical ideas in relation to a wide range of issues facing Indigenous Australian families. As the new millennium dawns, Australians are endeavouring to come to terms with their past and create new possibilities for partnerships in the future. This book offers stories that will inspire and sustain.

What is Narrative Therapy? An Easy-to-Read Introduction By Alice Morgan   This is a very popular easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy with accessible language, a concise structure and a wide range of practical  examples. This book covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation,  re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is trying to apply narrative ideas in your own work context, this book has been written with you in mind. Read the first two chapters of this book

Working with the stories of women’s lives…  Collected by Dulwich Centre Publications, this book is overflowing with writings from a diversity of women about their own lives and the women with whom they work. Chapters include: ways of understanding gender relations; talking about birthing stories; making sense of illness narratives and eating issues;  overcoming the effects of sexual abuse; women’s experiences of immigration; the interface of gender and culture; dilemmas facing women’s collectives; the stories of lesbian lives; working with older women…and many, many more! Read a chapter from this book

OTHER DULWICH CENTRE PUBLICATIONS  Reflecting teams special edition of Gecko: a journal of deconstruction and narrative ideas in therapeutic practice  Mosaic: An alternative resource for working with young people around drug use, by Penni Moss and Paul Butterworth

OTHER BOOKS ON NARRATIVE THERAPY: Dulwich Centre Publications also stocks the following narrative therapy titles:

Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends by David Epston & Michael White (Published by W.W.Norton) The original, groundbreaking text was the first book to describe what has come to be known as narrative therapy. Rich with examples and  thoughtful descriptions of the thinking that informs narrative practice this book is an important resource for those developing their narrative practice. Whether you are new to the ideas or an experienced practitioner this text is one you will want to have on your bookshelf to refer to time and again. Narrative Therapy: The social construction of preferred realities by Jill Freedman and Gene Combs (Published by W.W.Norton) This comprehensive and accessible introduction to narrative skills is a how-to-do-it book that provides a detailed account of the authors'  creative explorations. They demonstrate practical ways to understand and learn the skills whilst staying true to the political, philosophical and ethical considerations that provide the context for this work. This is one of the most popular books about narrative therapy. Narrative Therapy in Practice: The archaeology of hope Edited by Gerald Monk, John Winslade, Kathie Crocket and David Epston (Published by Jossey-Bass) A readable and lucid book, this collection of papers is a testimony to the spirit of a community of therapists who support each other in their therapeutic explorations. It provides important ideas for addressing alcohol use, male sexual abuse, school counselling, narrative psychiatry and more!  A chorus of voices: Weaving life's narratives in therapy and training Edited by Elmarie Kotzé (Published by Ethics Alive) Consisting of a collection of papers from New Zealand practitioners, chapters include stories of work about questioning heterosexual discourses in Christianity and counselling; adoption; depression and anxiety; anxiety; spiritual talk; women's identities; school fears; violence and abuse; and more!   Playful Approaches to Serious Problems by J Freeman, D Epston & D Lobovits (Published by W.W.Norton) "This delightful and refreshing book significantly fills a gap in the literature on working with children and their families. The authors present a broad range of spirited ideas about practice. The text is engaging and constitutes an invitation to therapists to step beyond the boundaries of the known in their work with children" - Michael White.  Narrative Mediation: A new approach to conflict resolution by John Winslade and Gerald Monk (Published by Jossey-Bass) This groundbreaking book introduces an innovative approach to conflict resolution that is a departure from the traditional problem-solving, interest-based model. Bringing together ideas from social constructionism and narrative therapy, and focusing on stories of mutuality, respect and consideration, the authors show how this can lead to new possibilities in peaceful co-existence.