VISUAL REFLECTIONS: TAKING OUTSIDER WITNESSING BEYOND WORDS

The purpose of this article is to share an evolution of outsider witnessing practices that prioritizs the use of visual images as the primary means of witnessing. Visual reflection teamwork introduces drawing and contemplative pauses into this narrative therapy application. This article asks the question of whether visualizations (drawings, charts, mind webs, etc.) can provide adequate and helpful reflections for outsider witnessing. It documents how a graduate-level narrative therapy training course came to the idea of visual reflection teamwork and what happened when we tried it out. It offers step-by-step guidance in how to conduct a visual reflection team, and it provides an example, complete with images, of visual reflection teamwork.