1. Experiencing the use of Michael White’s Scaffolding Questions: The Four E’s
Sally Bowen
SYSTEMIC Practitioner
Trainee Family Therapist
DAFT Conference 17 November 2016

2. Introduction
I am a Systemic Practitioner and Trainee Family Therapist currently undertaking my final qualifying year at University of Derby (MSc Independent Scholarship).
I have been working as a Specialist Mental Health Nurse in CAMHS for 15 years.
I am a founder member of the North Staffordshire Family Therapy Team which was set up in 2003.

3. My hope for this presentation:
Share the impact of the effects of experiential learning with my clinical supervisor and live training team as a family therapy trainee.
Technique and Theoretical links
Video Clip
Invitation for questions, comments, reflections

4. Michael White’s Scaffolding Questions:
Building a “scaffold” to support change
“on top of the scaffold”
Positive sense/story of self
Unique outcomes
Problem solving skills
Exceptions to problems
Options
“Under the scaffold”
Stuckness
Problem saturated
Negative sense or story of self

5. Building a “scaffold” to support change
Explore, why/how come, Explain
Evaluate actual or potential affects
Maps effects in various domains
Specific Experience/
Exception

6. The Four E’s Explanation (Justification) Evaluation (+ Or – or 0)
Effect (Relationships)
Experience (Exceptions)
Gary Robinson (2010)

7. The Four E’s Explanation: Why?, How come?
Evaluation: Is this positive, negative or no difference
Effects: helping the person notice the effects, on anyone connected with the person (family, self, peers, colleagues), contexts (home, work, social), current and future (hopes, dreams, aspirations, future)
Experience (exceptions): time/event when different, other time/event when different, tracking/mapping what, when how

8. Video Clip:
I would like to share with you parts of a video recording from a experiential learning with my clinical training team supervisor, witnessed by my training team colleagues

9. Practice, Practice, Practice
“scaffolding questions is acquired through practice, more practice and then … more practice!” Michael White (2002)

10. The impact then and over time
At the time I experienced this conversation as a very powerful one.
I felt connected to my abilities, to the positive achievements and change I’d started to make.
It connected me to my family of origin and the important messages and values I hold dear.
I continue to think and reflect about this conversation (it has stayed with me)

11. Thank you for listening
The End
Thank you for listening

12. Thank you
With thanks to Gary Robinson, my training team colleagues and Michael White Reference: Derby ‘Training Team: Systemic Influences and Ideas’