Sublime

more than one text could coexist in a close relationship on the page.

There is a presumption in thinking that we entirely invent our stories. Rather it could be said that the stories come through us, assemble themselves out of the elements of our lives and imagination. We receive and shape them. We cannot be said to originate them. All true storytellers are modest.

we display these characteristics and influences in different proportions depending on who and what we are.

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.

Each reading, however, would foreground different episodes or moments in episodes as particularly pleasurable or significant (rules of notice) and would ascribe alternative meanings to them (rules of significance); each would make its own predictions about likely plot developments (rules of configuration) and its own judgements about what would con

As we write stories, we write the world—and in this way storytelling can be considered a critical act of design.