Resume

David works in independent practice at Sydney Narrative Therapy as well as in Sydney at Uspace, a psychiatric unit for young people in St Vincent’s Hospital. He is a member of the Dulwich Centre faculty and an Honorary Clinical Fellow at Melbourne University’s School of Social Work.

Recent teaching assignments have included Rwanda, Brazil, Nepal, Turkey, Hong Kong, Palestine and he is a teacher on the Masters of Narrative Therapy and Community Work. David is the author of many papers about Narrative Therapy including ‘Rescuing the Said from the Saying of it: Living Documentation in Narrative Therapy’ and is working on a book with a draft title ‘Narrative Practice with young people and their families in a psychiatric setting’.

He is the author of “How we deal with 'way out thoughts': A living document of ways of talking with young people about suicidal thoughts” (2016, Dulwich Centre Publications), and co-author with Marnie Sather of “'Being More Than Just Your Final Act': Elevating the Multiple Storylines of Suicide with Narrative Practice” in the book Critical Suicidology (2015, UW Press), and of the resource “Holding our heads up: sharing stories not stigma when a loved one has suicided” (2016, Dulwich Centre Publications).