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Dustin:
Myself. (Stated with some assurance)
David:
Great! Great! Say you started playing for yourself and against
asthma, what would you do differently than you are doing now?
What skills would you use and how would you rely on yourself more?
Dustin:
Try to build up my lungs. (Now speaking with a measure of sincere
interest and playful engagement.)
David:
What if asthma told you to listen to it? Would you still listen to your
own advice?
Dustin:
Yah.
David:
So your advice is to strengthen your lungs and strengthen yourself?
Dustin:
Yah.
David:
What about strengthening your mind? Do you think that would help?
Dustin:
Yah.
David:
(writing) Strengthen my mind! That could be mental karate, eh? Do
you like these ideas or do they seem a bit silly to you?
Dustin:
No, I like them & I want to do more for myself and not rely on my
mum and dad so much.
David:
This could be very hard, you know. You have very capable parents.
Good parents, right? Don't you think you've got great parents?
Dustin:
Yah! (Very enthusiastically)
David:
Say you started to rely on yourself more, you might have to rely on
some good ideas, and maybe you have been depending on your
parents' good ideas?
Dustin:
Yah.
What Is a Good Question—and What Does It Do? A Forty-Year Reflection on Inquiry in Narrative Therapy
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, August 2026 Release, p. 9-45.
www.journalcnt.com
