Re-Authoring the World: The Narrative Lens and Practices for Organisations, Communities and Individuals

The narrative reconfiguration tools—Turning Points, Pivots, Vectors of Change, and Nudges—

story as ‘light’, as ‘glue’ and as ‘web’ in its relationship to systems change. Saltmarshe reiterates story as a “direct route to our emotions” and that it creates cohesion within communities

If you want to take control of your life or work towards some kind of sustainable change in the world, you need to harness the power of story.

You can gain a sense of their narrative identities by listening for the following five elements (see Botella & Herrero, 2000): Events they include (or exclude) in their stories. Main themes around which they organize their stories. Characters they regard as significant (or nonsignificant). Voices they privilege or silence when telling their sto