Enough.

In my work as a teacher, I have the great privilege of meeting with people who make huge personal commitments to be the most skillful and respectful helpers possible. They invest preciously scarce time and money to honor their desire to develop their professiona...

For this month's blog post, I am sharing the welcome I gave at NTI's fall workshop on Friday, October 13th, titled "Re-membering Michael White: Saying Hullo Again."

Thank you for coming to our 8th annual fall workshop! We have three distinguished guests joining us this...

Whatever leadership identity I may occupy at the Narrative Therapy Initiative has me experiencing a responsibility to respond to the white supremacist-fueled events in Charlottesville. I also want to speak out personally. 

I was abused as a boy, physically. When my fath...

Happy 4th of July: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness, and the right to behave like a White Male A**hole. I am a...

I had the privilege to vacation in Italy earlier this month. In addition to the opportunity to indulge myself, I was struck by the ever-present history of the “greatest story ever told.” The stories in the Bible were represented, exploited, and worshiped everywhere I t...

Anger gets a bad wrap. Violence gets to mask itself whenever anger is named as a problem. I’ve been told I have an anger problem since I was 11 years old. I no longer believe anger is a problem. I do believe violence is a problem. As I write this, news of a chemical bo...

Maintaining the narrative perspective that problems have to do with people's relationships with stories is not always easy. I am finding it particularly challenging with the new Trump administration. I find myself pulled to storying these people as evil, bad, and sick....