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

A number of people have expressed an interest in the psychology underlying the ManyStory Approach. I am not a psychologist, but do think...

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

One of the things I have noticed consistently in my work is the power of articulation. That is, something changes when we talk about...

One of the areas I want to think more about is archetypal stories. I suspect that there are many of these - that is stories that are...

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...

Working with the past is an interesting area for a coach or facilitator of change. One has to be careful, as it can lead into quite deep...

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

At the end of Chapter 5, I mention that I draw on many theoretical perspectives in my thinking about the ManyStory Approach. In this post...

In the book, I raise the question (at the end of Chapter 4): is it possible to be one’s own coach? I think the short answer is ‘yes,’ and...

In the book, I raise the question about ‘positive values’ (at the end of Chapter 3): what are these values, and how can we claim they are...

In Shifting Stories, I raise the question (at the end of Chapter 2): is there such a thing as objective reality or objective truth? The...

I was going to include a chapter on Leadership in the book, but realised I did not have enough material, or enough ideas, yet. So this...

The work on leadership by Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee (see The New Leaders) is interesting in the context of a ManyStory approach. Using...

Getting To Yes, the book on the Harvard approach to negotiating, has long been a favourite of mine. The four key ideas are to separate...

Transactional Analysis is a large and complex set of related ideas, developed initially by Eric Berne. One of the key ideas in...

Since writing Shifting Stories, I have become increasingly interested in Nancy Kline’s work on the Thinking Environment as described in...

I have long had an interest in NLP, and have gone to various NLP training events, read a number of books and so on. But increasingly,...