Story-Solution™ Coaching & Consulting
We are story-telling animals. In fact, we are not primarily rational beings who occasionally tell stories, but rather story-telling animals who occasionally reason. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and others are particularly important. They profoundly shape our identities, our patterns of attention, our interpretations, our sense of agency and our engagement.
And yet they often remain unexamined, humming along in our subconscious minds. Many of us are trapped in unhelpful self-stories. In stories of lack or defects, in self-blaming or world-blaming stories, in stories that cast us as stupid, ugly, bad, or else as helpless victims of uncontrollable external forces. Or else we may tell ourselves that we are so different that we are unable to connect and destined to stay alone.
Our toxic stories can keep us feeling stuck, hopeless, exhausted, and burnt-out, or perpetually wrestling with a harsh inner critic and a sense of never being good enough. Our toxic stories drain our energy from within and can turn managing our own minds into our hardest jobs.
In order to tell ourselves powerfully generative stories that allow us to thrive, we first of all need to understand the crucial role of storyfied sense making in our inner and outer lives and then look at the stories that are already there – both at a personal and at a collective cultural level.
Only when we have done this work can we author truly compelling and authentic new vision-stories for the future. The Story Solution™ framework works both for individuals and for organisations.
Ways of Working With Me
Private 1:1 Story-Solution coaching. Limited places.
For people who’ve already done the work but still feel stuck, exhausted, or at odds with themselves. I also offer burnout and executive coaching.
The Story Solution™ for Organisations
Narrative diagnostics, identity repair, and collective sense-making for sustainable performance.
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THE STORY SOLUTION™
How it works
Your unhelpful thoughts, negative core beliefs, harsh inner critics, low self-esteem and bad habits are merely symptoms — not the root causes of your challenges. The Story Solution addresses the deeper narratives that generate our symptoms. It is a 5-step process that helps you observe the story you are telling yourself about yourself, understand its origin, edit what’s unfair, interpret the facts of your life with greater wisdom and compassion, and author a narrative that allows you truly to thrive.
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Do you long to feel less self-critical and more self-trusting?
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Do you want to take decisions without rumination and internal paralysis?
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Do you dream of inner peace and a mind that supports rather than undermines you?
Combining powerful tools from narrative psychology, solution-oriented coaching, ACT, CBT, ancient wisdom and clinical hypnotherapy, The Story Solution helps you to:
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Identify the narrative root-causes of your challenges
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Understand and change the toxic stories that generate unhelpful core beliefs and negative self-talk
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Break old behavioural patterns
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Recover confidence and clarity
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Build a stronger, kinder, fairer and more empowering narrative about yourself
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Create a future aligned with your values and purpose
Self-story work is deep personal development, addressing the narrative root causes of recurring thoughts such as "I'm not good enough", "I'm always behind," "I'm an imposter just waiting to be unmasked," "I'm stupid," "I'm unloveable," "I will never achieve success because I lack x, y and z," "I have to be perfect," and "I am nothing without success."
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