The alternative story is possible when a realisation is co-constructed that reality is fluid, that it can be challenged and changed, and transformed and lived into.

Abundance resides where impossibilities become possibilities.

the end of all these conversations, the common themes describing the kinds of relationships employees have with the coachee, as well as the gifts, competencies and skills, are all shared with the coachee.

Coachees are sometimes unable to remember why they are doing work in the way they are doing it. The following questions can be asked to assist coachees by providing rich descriptions of their preferred stories (counter-stories) of work that tap into their gifts, skills, values, beliefs, dreams and visions. You can begin the exploration by asking th

The task of the listener is to treat these insider knowledges as something worth giving attention to, asking about and listening to. As a result it challenges the idea that only certain people know, can talk and therefore have power in the speaking.

What people think is “true” and “their reality” we call a constructed narrative. A constructed narrative consists of a series of incidents which we have interpreted to say: “This is my story!” It seems true to the person who often refers to their story as “this is the way it is”. In this understanding of the way things are, it is inevitable that as

So, this chapter is an invitation to rethink the role of leadership in which one of the goals and challenges is to co-construct and co-produce an alternative narrative that challenges the taken-for-granted ideas and stories we are currently engaging with.

our participation in our stories and in the world really matters. As we re-write the narratives we once held to be the truth – and the only truth – about our lives, we shift the future of our own lives and the communities we form part of.

Narrative coaching creates a space for individuals to reconnect the rich knowledges, values, passions and hopes in their relationship to the story of work and work-communities, in which they become the authors and co-authors in writing the story of the companies they represent.