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...

I had an interesting conversation recently with a woman (we'll call her Kate) who said 'I'm turning into my mother.' It is the kind of...

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...

I was chatting with someone who had been on one of the programmes I run, and has subsequently been reading Shifting Stories, on Monday...

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...

I have been thinking about the concept of useful fictions a lot, recently. The Shifting Stories approach springs from a desire to get...

This week I watched the extraordinary film, Notes on Blindness. It is the story of John Hull, an academic who lost his sight, and is...

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

It seems that one of the less endearing features of the times we live in, is the way in which people are quick to take offence (even to...

For those interested in how the ManyStory Approach that I outline in Shifting Stories may be applied to coaching, I have developed a...

I have recently attended a Daring Way workshop, based on the work of Brené Brown (about which I have blogged on my general purpose blog,...

You know that thing when you read a review or article and think: someone else has just written the book I've just written... I just had...

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...

I have blogged before (here) about some of the psychology underpinning the ManyStory approach. However, I have recently finished reading...

The book Shifting Stories was inspired by Liz Todd, of Newcastle University, who asked me about the relationship of my work to Narrative The

Now that the book has been launched for just over a month, I thought it time to share some of my favourite reviews. There are several on...

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