Implicit Positive Values
A group of coaches who have been working together on the Shifting Stories ideas got in touch recently to ask me for clarification about...
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Andrew Scott
Apr 11, 2020
Re-writing my own story - again
As part of a Leadership Team Coaching programme that I am doing at present, we were asked to think of the best and the worst teams we...
Andrew Scott
Jan 6, 2020
Re-Storying Death
For Christmas, I was given With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an age of Denial. It is a fascinating book, written by...
Andrew Scott
Jul 15, 2019
Coaching an International Athlete
The title of this blog post, whilst accurate, is perhaps a bit overstated: the international athlete concerned is my youngest daughter...
Andrew Scott
Jul 3, 2019
Coaching into some new, more helpful, stories...
I had a very interesting coaching session with a client recently, who we’ll call Jane, as that’s not her name. She had found it very...
Andrew Scott
Feb 17, 2019
A Self-help Version...
Today I came across an interesting article on the TED site about a book and TED X talk by Dr John Sharp. Essentially, he is describing a...
Andrew Scott
Feb 3, 2019
A Classic Case...
There’s been an extraordinary news story in the US recently that seems to me to illustrate some of the ideas sitting behind the ManyStory...
Andrew Scott
Oct 26, 2018
Shifting a Conflict
One of the projects I have been working on recently, with my excellent colleague Jan Allon-Smith, has been resolving and long-standing,...
Andrew Scott
Oct 5, 2018
Juries and Stories (2)
Further to my last post on this, there is one story I want to explore a bit more; and that is Believe Women. My suspicion is that this...
Andrew Scott
Oct 2, 2018
Juries and Stories
Before the summer break, I was on Jury Service. It was a fascinating, if harrowing, experience, not least from the point of view of the...
Andrew Scott
Sep 20, 2018
Shifting Stories compared to the Thinking Partnership approach to coaching
I wrote this essay as part of the qualifying process to be a Thinking Partnership Coach, and thought that it might be of interest to...
Andrew Scott
Jun 14, 2018
The most elegant example of Shifting a Story...
In Current Psychotherapies, Raymond Corsini recounts what he calls 'the most successful and elegant psychotherapy I have ever done.' It...
Andrew Scott
Jun 10, 2018
Making the story visual
On my main blog (here) I have written about my recent experiments with the Visual Explorer images/cards which I bought recently. In...
Andrew Scott
Apr 16, 2018
Shifting Stories and the Thinking Environment
As part of my qualifying with Nancy Kline's organisation as a Time To Think Coach, I am writing an essay comparing Coaching in a Thinking...
Andrew Scott
Jan 27, 2018
Stories and sabotage...
The much-viewed and much-commented-on interview of Jordan Peterson by Cathy Newman (which can be seen here) is very interesting as an...
Andrew Scott
Dec 10, 2017
From Strategy to Leakage
I have been thinking further about the stories we tell in organisations. I blogged recently about my four box model, considering aspects...
Andrew Scott
Nov 23, 2017
Shifting Another Story: Towards Balance
One of my unhelpful stories about myself is that I am lazy. It is not a story without some foundation, as well. However, it is unhelpful,...
Andrew Scott
Nov 6, 2017
What is truth?
This question was famously posed by the cynical, political Pontius Pilate. In my previous post, I suggested drawing a distinction between...
Andrew Scott
Oct 28, 2017
A Four Box Model
I have long been a fan of four box models: whether the Eisenhower (urgency/importance) grid, the very useful conscious/competence model...
Andrew Scott
Oct 11, 2017
The Productive Researcher
Today, Professor Mark Reed publishes his latest book, The Productive Researcher. It's a good book: he has interviewed many successful...
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