Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Marie Arendt
Categories
Psychology

NARRATIVE PRACTICES AND EMOTIONS

Gerald Monk Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin

40+ Ways to Support the Emergence of Flourishing Identities

Contemporary challenges and discoveries call for an expansion of narrative therapy practices.

Narrative therapy has the potential to help clients understand their challenges as separate from their selves, shifting the focus to their inner strengths when managing a problem. Narrative Practices and Emotions provides a fresh perspective for new and experienced practitioners alike on how to combine classic narrative therapy with the latest scholarship on the mind-body connection. Authors Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin and Gerald Monk tap into cutting edge discoveries on mindfulness, interpersonal neurobiology, and positive psychology. Each chapter offers a wealth of clinical questions and embodied exercises, while "conversation maps" - which provide important guideposts to practitioners - are illustrated with engaging transcripts of therapeutic work. These compelling case studies elegantly demonstrate how skillful conversations can invigorate hope and support personal development. Readers will discover a wide variety of ways to assist clients of all ages in reengaging with a meaningful life and sustaining well-being.

Available products
Book Published 2024-03-05 by Norton Professional Books

Comments

Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin and Gerald Monk are both veterans of the 'first generation' of narrative therapy practitioners, theorists, and educators. As is often the case when you amalgamate two traditions of practice and theory, you are in for surprises. There are surprises aplenty in Narrative Practices and Emotions - and who better than these authors to have integrated these two seemingly disparate approaches?

Narrative Practices and Emotions provides a great wealth of knowledge and new ideas for narrative practitioners. Beaudoin and Monk write with a level of lucidity that underscores the vital role of emotions in narrative practices. Through a series of vignettes from clinical practice, the authors demonstrate how emotions expand clients' narratives. Attention to local knowledges and historically disregarded healing practices offers a breath of fresh air. Indeed, this is a very well-written book that weaves narrative therapy with interpersonal biology, mindfulness, and embodiment approaches. A must-read!

A significant contribution to a burgeoning body of literature. The authors weave together the diverse strands of the postmodern narrative worldview with the recent developments of interpersonal neurobiology. Beaudoin and Monk invite us to journey with them into new territories of possibility that crackle with innovation. By artfully intersecting narrative practices with generously particularized practices from interpersonal neurobiology and embodiment, they offer many fresh options for fostering the emergence of preferred and robust identities. This timely volume is a must-read.