Narrative means to Awesome ends - Awesome Alfie
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a composite case study of narrative work with a family on the Troubled Families programme
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- 1. Narrative means to awesome ends Clare Jolly. Plenary. 22.04.2016. ARU
- 2. A philosophy of therapy was born
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- 4. For narrative therapists, stories consist of: Events linked in sequence Across time According to a plot Alfie had experienced several incidents of “naughty behaviour” during the last year, forming the plot of Alfie as a bad boy Alfie and the family now held this dominant story line as his identity and any variations from it are missed
- 5. Narrative Therapy uses questions to: Generate experience Separate people from problems Identify preferred directions
- 6. My job was to help the family to find and value the unique outcomes that could form the beginnings of a new story
- 7. The one good thing the family talked about was fishing. Alfie described fishing as “Awesome.”
- 8. For narrative therapists, stories consist of: Events linked in sequence Across time According to a plot Alfie had experienced several incidents of “naughty behaviour” during the last year, forming the plot of Alfie as a bad boy Alfie and the family now held this dominant story line as his identity and any variations from it are missed Alfie experienced several incidents of “Awesome” behaviour during the last year, forming a hidden plot of Alfie as a good –or Awesome!-boy. Finding and thickening alternative story lines
- 9. LANDSCAPE OF ACTION LANDSCAPE OF IDENTITY
- 10. I love to write I love exceptions
- 11. GRAPH WITH PLOT POINTS SONG WITH SUBJUGATED TUNES (STORIES) graph https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=OPf0YbX qDm0 https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=1rj30_lTd TY
- 12. OMG!
Editor's Notes
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0 Music version one to play as people enter or for first few seconds if already there. Then -Intro to narrative – from sheet
- Narrative therapy – see facilitator sheet-
- See Genog sheet too. Referral came from a locality team who had worked intermittently with the family offering parenting support. School had asked them to see if “something could be done about Alfie.” Genogram. Aggression in school and home. I invited the family to tell me stories about themselves and about the problem – I was listening for strengths and resources
- We make meaning of our lives through stories. In NT, these consist of
- Telling the story of the problem through q’s to deconstruct it-I asked who does it affect and how (and later how do they affect the problem, which is one reason why it is good to externalize-distance.)
- To do this I explored areas that we might re-author –such as mum’s image of herself as a poor parent, such as dad’s story of bad luck, and settled on Alfie’s story of being “trouble,” being fixed as bad. Once we had spent time on this exa
- Possible narratives to thicken included Ally’s good mum story. Re fishing, I’ve heard you talk a bout the difficulties in school, and sometimes at home, I noticed that you all spoke very differently when you mentioned the fishing trips. Invited them to say more about alfies behaviour when fishing, and their (others) behaviour and effects
- Finding out more about the fishing trips and then broadening…..Thickening the new storyAlso asked about other times when “good” eg bedtimes, and school work award. As the events in the story grow, it seems less likely that they are flukes and more possible that a different story With its new plot, comprising new events sequenced in time, to evolve.
- . I asked Alfie about how he managed to behave so well when fishing. What did he do. What did he tell himself. (skills and actions). These helped hims ee his ability to control his behaviour as significant. And helped thicken the story further. Then re identity. When I asked Alfie what it said about him that he had won the award at school –he said “I am Awesome!!” (in some circumstances we might seek to externalize the strength of awesomeness) but this was such a powerful statement I felt it was important to leave it alone.
- I love to write and so narrative therapy’s use of therapeutic documents such as letters particularly interested me. I now often send letters to clients summarizing their progress, and I plan to do this with this family. I had not thought of . Simirlarly, I love Solution focused work, which focuse on exceptions – the unique outcomes of narrative therapy, which would not be expected from the story of the problem. For CAs family relationships with when they all went fishing, and their behaviour, was an exception, or unique outcome that didn’t emerge when we were focused on the problem.
- Not just about thinking about my background compared to theirs etc. E.g.But I hate graphs. And maps (ref convo) Another way to understand it is eg through music –tunes that are not the obvious ones within a given piece of music. Music version two. E.G. ahttp://radio.com/2015/03/11/8-artists-that-could-sue-uptown-funk- Also, coming from a background of individuals, a personal reflexivity task is to remind myself that I also need to do:
- E.G. Checking in how the interaction with the client is going recognizes that meaning is co-created in therapy - is a by-product of the relationship - “us,” not of “you” or “me.” This is what John Burnham (2005) refers to as relational reflexivity. So, could inquire, Is this the kind of conversation you were hoping we would have? Is there another way we could or should be doing this? Are there questions I should be asking you but I’m not? acknowledges that we only have “power with” and not “power over.
- What Alfie and his family had done in telling their new story –was –they had re-authored -it