Narrative coaching builds on this by helping people identify simple Nudges they can regularly use to reinforce their new narrative using all four BEAM elements (Behavior, Environment, Aspiration, and Mindset). In a sense, we are helping people become their own “choice architects”

How would you express what is true for you now? Where would you find support for that?

FIGURE 10: FOUR ACTS OF NARRATIVE COACHING

Scaffolding prepares people so they make it across their threshold and start out with a solid footing on the other side. A lot of this takes the form of small steps to increase their awareness, focus, and resources as they cross.

Instead of faithfully recording the past, it keeps rewriting history. Recalling an event in a new context can lead to new information being inserted in the memory”

Focus on the characters’ experience in the story more than the content of the story.

Rites of passage involve movement through four phases, marked by the crossing of four distinct thresholds:

The aim, as with the work itself, is to help you become more astute in observing what is true right now before trying to change anything.

The aim is to build up their self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-efficacy so they can shift in the moment again and again.