Narrative Therapy

Key Assumptions of the Narrative Approach

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1. We become who we are through relationship - through the meaning we make of our perceptions of and interactions with each other.

2. We organize our lives through stories.

3. We can make many different stories or meanings of any particular event.

4. There are many experiences in each of our lives that have not been “storied.” Each of those events could, if storied, lead to a different, often preferable, life narrative.

5. People are separate from problems. The person is not the problem, the problem is the problem.

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Cited from Jill and Gene Combs