One of the projects I have been working on recently, with my excellent colleague Jan Allon-Smith, has been resolving and long-standing,...

In Current Psychotherapies, Raymond Corsini recounts what he calls 'the most successful and elegant psychotherapy I have ever done.' It...

On my main blog (here) I have written about my recent experiments with the Visual Explorer images/cards which I bought recently. In...

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,...

Today, Professor Mark Reed publishes his latest book, The Productive Researcher. It's a good book: he has interviewed many successful...

Last Friday I ran a workshop on the ManyStory Approach to coaching, as outlined in Shifting Stories, for members of Cumbria Coaching...

It has been an eventful summer. After years of trouble-free driving, Mike, our son had two accidents in two days. In the first, he simply...

Yesterday we had our monthly meeting of the Cumbria Coaching Network. I had missed the previous meeting as I had been out of the country,...

Just over a week ago, I was out for a walk with Jane, my wife, Annie, my daughter, and James, my grandson. We needed to get back for a...

Last week, I was due to pick up my son, Michael, from Newcastle at the end of his University term (He is studying Graphic Design at...

I was reflecting on sales of Shifting Stories this week. The graph of relative sales position on Amazon looks like this: Combined with...

Some time ago, on my general blog, I told the story of a friend of mine, that illustrates another aspect of working with story. He had...

A while back, I started initial conversations as I began to do some work for a large organisation, and in my discussions with various...

I am somewhat ambivalent about how much one can learn from books. On the one hand, I have myself learned a great deal from books over the...

This is an exercise I use on my Stories for Change Workshop, to give people an experience of the ManyStory Approach in practice. It...

In this blog post, I want to broaden the focus from the exploration of stories in an organisational context, to consider their use in...

The application of a ManyStory Approach to learning and development is very fruitful, as I hope many of the chapters in the book (eg on...

In the book, the chapter on teams focuses on working with teams that already exist. In this post, we will consider newly formed teams....