This anthology contains a diversity of accessible, engaging, practice-based papers by narrative practitioners around the world. Articles include theoretical considerations; working with individuals, groups, and communities; co-research; and an approach to community mental health. The collection is rounded out by a collection of practice notes by Michael White.
If you are wanting to understand more about narrative therapy and the different ways in which people are exploring and experimenting with narrative ways of working, this book will inform, challenge, and inspire.
Somebody Somewhere is the second book in Donna Williams’ four-part autobiographical series. Donna takes up her story in 1994, in a world where most people don’t yet have email or Internet and the undiagnosed adults on the Autistic Spectrum born in the 1960s and earlier still don’t know that others with the condition exist, often believing they are the only ones in the entire world. After a life of abuse, domestic prostitution, homelessness and poverty, Donna Williams has made her way back to Australia and finally found the answer... More info
This is a book for women and men in middle age and approaching their future years with a big "Now what?" feeling. The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot finds that many people want life to mean more, and they begin to think beyond a retirement of leisure to re-engagement of activity. Between aged 50 to 75, our penultimate period we look to our origins, to the lessons we learned at home - about service, charity, justice; about collective responsibility and citizenship - and feel, often for the first time,... More info
Re-Authoring Lives is a collection of inspiring interviews and essays. It makes compelling reading for counsellors, therapists and anyone who is interested in the important questions about how people live their lives More info
