Storytellers at A Room Full of Stories 2016 - Shona Russell, Peggy Sax & Maggie Carey

At The Room Full of Stories , Shona, Peggy & Maggie shared overview of the history of Narrative Therapy and located some of the areas of study that have informed this approach. Narrative ways of working have taken a different trajectory to many psychosocial approaches that have traditionally individualized people and internalized problems. The emphasis on the social construction of identity and attention to the politics of experience will be linked with the theoretical underpinnings that support the Narrative Approach. Shona, Peggy and Maggie also reflected on the ways in which working with the Ummeed team has contributed to their own work and how it continues to shape and inform their ways of working. They looked at the ways in which identity is seen as a co-construction in Narrative Therapy, rather than a fixed reality. Some of the current streams of research and enquiry in the wider fields of therapy such as links with neuroscience and the ‘performative’ element of stories were also be explored as ways of contributing to the ongoing vitalization of Narrative Therapy.