This is important because people with a clear vision of themselves in a future state tend to have more accessible cues that are relevant to this future state and to selectively process information and opportunities that are useful in attaining it.

People need to name the truth before they can change it.

What are you longing for? What experiences do you need to allow yourself to have?

Using the Pause and Pivot techniques I had taught him, he used the occasion to notice the tension in his body as he started to respond along the old storyline and then shifted gears to act in new ways that were healthier for him and his team.

FIGURE 7: MOVING FROM OLD EXPLANATIONS TO NEW EXPRESSIONS

Implications for Your Practice Trust that the resolution is already present. Let your questions emerge from the silence and what you hear. Ask questions to generate experiences not pursue or provide explanations. Stay in the story and the present moment even when asking about the past or future. Position yourself relative to and in support of the

Working toward distant goals often leads people to act as if they can just jump the chasm between where they are now and their goal without acknowledging their current reality (inner or outer), doing the essential developmental work, or investing in what it takes to sustain the results. This seldom works because people often go into it with the

Narrative coaching is a mindful, experiential, and integrative approach that helps people make real change in real time using their own stories.

Austin and Vancouver (1996) succinctly describe goals as “internal representations of desired states or outcomes”