Sublime

“Self-expansive activation,”

Rather than the therapist having the job of assessing and diagnosing the client so as to arrive at the correct advice or prescription, the client and therapist work jointly on the client’s future.

Narrative coaching is a semi-structured process in which you can use people’s own stories to help them move through transitions and bring about desired changes.

offers the structure of a self-observation practice

action and learning—combine to create change.

The use of self:

Any changes a person makes in coaching are more likely to have a lasting and meaningful impact when their broader patterns, identity strategies, and socially constructed narratives are addressed (Mattingly, 1998). Ultimately, it is about asking this marvelous question from Lisa Marshall: “What story is worth your life?”

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

Search: create openings through neural dissonance widen window of tolerance (and strengthen secure base) 3. Shift: seek alignment through neural resonance integrate learning (and enrich working model) 4. Sustain: reinforce new narrative through feedback build confidence in new action (and increase security)