The Tree of Life is a Narrative Therapy practice which focus primarily on working with individuals and communities to recover the skills and knowledge of the people to face difficulties based on the conviction that people always do something to respond to these challenges. It is possible, therefore, to work with the resources of individuals, and the communities themselves, allowing people to tell their life stories and strengthening all the members, as the experience of making a contribution to others maintains and facilitate hope (Wingard & Lester, 2001)

In the Tree of Life Narrative Therapy practice the tree is used as a metaphor to tell stories about one’s life. Individuals are invited to think of a tree and its parts, and to imagine that each part of the tree represents something about their life.

The Roots: represents where participants come from.

The Ground: represents one’s present life.

The Trunk: represents participants skills and interests.

The Branches: represents one’s hopes, dreams, and wishes.

The Leaves: represents important people in participants life.

Storms: represents challenges, losses, lack of resources, and stressful events.

Also: anything which threatens one’s tree can also be included here.