ABSTRACT
The project described in this chapter was hosted by a community organisation in French-speaking Canada that assists women in conflict with the law1. As the title suggests, the project was designed for women in transition to give a shape and history to their progress. Methods revolved around creating and performing personal stories, and included creative expressive processes from dramatherapy as well as a number of ideas and practices from narrative therapy. Several ideas about stories and their use in therapy informed the project’s methodology. Among these, an idea shared by dramatherapists and narrative therapists alike: that our lives and identities can be represented in different ways and from varying perspectives; that life stories are, indeed, creations and, as such, they can be created or constructed differently. This multi-storied perspective carried through the entire project. Its broad aim was to instill in the participants a sense of agency in the shaping of their lives (Epston and White 1992; White 1995).
