Learning from the Michael White archive
A unique narrative practice workshop
Date: 9 & 10 May 2026 (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (12 hours)
Venue: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Room Y301)
Fee: Regular $1,800
Discount $1500 (HKMFTA Member/ PolyU Student/
HKMFTA One-year NT Course Graduate)
In this unique workshop, participants will have opportunities to rigorously reflect upon and learn from carefully selected video recordings from the Michael White archives of Dulwich Centre. This workshop builds on the research of Kelsi Semeschuk an Adelaide based narrative therapist who completed her PhD on ‘The Michael White Archive: New learnings from White’s therapeutic practice in the realms of abuse and trauma’.
The following themes and concepts will be engaged with through Michael White’s tapes:
- Therapeutic Posture
- The maps of narrative practice
- Practices of deconstruction
- Operations of modern power
- Ethics and politics of narrative practice
As active participants, you will become outsider witnesses to these tapes. You will have opportunities to discuss how concepts in these tapes resonate with your knowledge, practice skills and values, and how they can extend and shape your future work. There will also be opportunities to practice some concepts, ask many questions, and consider how you can adapt narrative practices in culturally sensitive ways in order to benefit the people and communities who consult you.
Your facilitator of this workshop will be Carolyn Markey who is a senior Dulwich Centre faculty member who teaches nationally and internationally and was trained by Michael White in the 1990s. Carolyn currently works as a narrative therapist in Adelaide, South Australia.
Regular reflections will be offered by Angela Tsun on-Kee who was one of the examiners of Kelsi’s thesis and attended many trainings with Michael White. Kelsi Semeschuk and David Denborough have collaborated with Carolyn to prepare for this workshop.
This workshop is suitable for narrative therapists and community workers who are already familiar with and putting narrative therapy concepts into practice in their work.