Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories

The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanise change. Although our culture often reinforces stories of personal deficit, rather than resilience and resourcefulness, narrative therapy effectively helps clients reauthor their stories within a broader context, revealing deeper truths about their lives and identities. In this workshop, you’ll explore a range of practical tools for engaging your clients in this work, including how to help them creatively remember empowering storylines after they leave a session. You’ll discover how to help clients: 

• Re-evaluate, reimagine, and revise negative identity conclusions.  
• Remember critical conversations that can shift their view of themselves and their relationships 
• Engage with evocative Narrative Therapy questions that help contextualise their problems in a new, enlivening way 
• Practice therapeutic letter writing to help alter disempowering, limiting narratives