http://narrativecoaching.com/our-work/so-what-is-narrative-coaching/ Stories that matter. Coaching that works. Organizations that thrive. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:20:26 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://narrativecoaching.com/our-work/so-what-is-narrative-coaching/comment-page-1/#comment-79 David B. Drake Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:36 +0000 http://narrativecoaching.com/?p=183#comment-79 Thanks, Martin. I too see the connection with Yalom's work, drawing on his four-step frame for inquiry as a central piece in this work. Narrative coaching shares existentialism's focus on the central questions of life as it IS, a point of view that is modeled in this work through the attention to mindfulness. While would also place narrative coaching more at the Being end of your continuum, I find that in doing so it also is very generative in terms of new actions. It speaks to the dialectic between identity and behavior as accesses through people's stories as they are told in the moment and across their lifetime. Thanks for sharing. Thanks, Martin. I too see the connection with Yalom’s work, drawing on his four-step frame for inquiry as a central piece in this work. Narrative coaching shares existentialism’s focus on the central questions of life as it IS, a point of view that is modeled in this work through the attention to mindfulness. While would also place narrative coaching more at the Being end of your continuum, I find that in doing so it also is very generative in terms of new actions. It speaks to the dialectic between identity and behavior as accesses through people’s stories as they are told in the moment and across their lifetime. Thanks for sharing.

]]> http://narrativecoaching.com/our-work/so-what-is-narrative-coaching/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Martin Vogel Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:29:02 +0000 http://narrativecoaching.com/?p=183#comment-78 I like this, David - particularly the emphasis on the relational field and the idea of identities as situated in communities and embodied in discourse. I tend to see different approaches to coaching as being located on a continuum between being and doing. I'm increasingly at the being end; perhaps the narrative perspective takes us in that direction. Not for the first time I notice parallels with Yalom's approach to working with people firmly in the here and now. I like this, David – particularly the emphasis on the relational field and the idea of identities as situated in communities and embodied in discourse. I tend to see different approaches to coaching as being located on a continuum between being and doing. I’m increasingly at the being end; perhaps the narrative perspective takes us in that direction. Not for the first time I notice parallels with Yalom’s approach to working with people firmly in the here and now.

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