Help replot the story

The second position works with the storyteller rather than the organisation. The distinctive move is replotting rather than revising content: changing the facts inside a tragedy leaves a tragedy.

The book was developed from research on leadership and organisational change, not from coaching practice. That it describes what good coaches already do was not the original object of enquiry.

From Chapter Seven

The second position is what we can think of as the role of helping someone to tell their story - perhaps as coach or mentor: working with the storyteller rather than their organisation, helping them to identify the narrative they may be stuck inside and to find a way to retell that narrative.

Three sections, in the chapter's order:

1. Surfacing scripts
2. Rewrite the plot, not just the content
3. Practical tools for narrative coaching

Start here: Critical Narrative Review · Change Type Reflection

Lenses: Figure-Ground — the elenchus and the holding environment · Application

Cases: Enron and the unasked question · NHS transformation

Status: section headings are the chapter's own · framing is site-written · author review required