Tree of Life: an approach to working with vulnerable children, young people and adults

This narrative therapy approach enables people to talk about their lives in ways that do not re-traumatise them, but instead, strengthens their connection with their history, culture, and the significant people in their lives. It involves encouraging people to draw their own Tree of Life, where they get to talk about of their roots (where they come from), their skills and knowledge, their hopes and dreams, and the special people in their lives. Participants then join their trees into a ‘forest of life’.