In the Nineties, some new therapeutical approaches arise in Europe and the USA as a result of the context of the poststructuralist epistemology.

Coherent and lined up with this trend, Michael White, from Australia, and David Epston, from New Zeeland, organize a peculiar form of approach that puts emphasis on the stories that people tell about themselves and their difficulties.

Centered in the relation between stories, knowledge and power, they develop concrete therapeutical practices capable of transforming tales of failure into narratives of hope.

The Narrative Therapy focus on people’s personal story and is about finding ways through which people, organizations and/or communities can change their relationship with any problem or difficulty that they may be dealing with.

In this way, their problems no longer define who they are. Breaking the identification with the problem allows people, organizations or communities to make themselves capable to move towards a different and broader sense of identity and possibilities.

The narrative approach allows people, organizations or communities to leave a dominant history of life descriptions, with all the negative impediments that follow them, to try lives with many new stories and possibilities.

It is a collaborative, respectful and non-blaming approach supported by ethics and transparency that always places people as expert in their own lives.

It separates people from their problems, in the absolute belief of that:

• Every human being is bigger than any problem;
• People always possess skills, competencies, beliefs, values and commitment that will assist them in changing their relationship with the difficulty with which they are dealing with.