Shifting a Conflict
One of the projects I have been working on recently, with my excellent colleague Jan Allon-Smith, has been resolving and long-standing,...
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Andrew Scott
Jun 14, 2018
The most elegant example of Shifting a Story...
In Current Psychotherapies, Raymond Corsini recounts what he calls 'the most successful and elegant psychotherapy I have ever done.' It...
Andrew Scott
Jun 10, 2018
Making the story visual
On my main blog (here) I have written about my recent experiments with the Visual Explorer images/cards which I bought recently. In...
Andrew Scott
Nov 23, 2017
Shifting Another Story: Towards Balance
One of my unhelpful stories about myself is that I am lazy. It is not a story without some foundation, as well. However, it is unhelpful,...
Andrew Scott
Oct 11, 2017
The Productive Researcher
Today, Professor Mark Reed publishes his latest book, The Productive Researcher. It's a good book: he has interviewed many successful...
Andrew Scott
Sep 18, 2017
Learning from a Workshop
Last Friday I ran a workshop on the ManyStory Approach to coaching, as outlined in Shifting Stories, for members of Cumbria Coaching...
Andrew Scott
Sep 7, 2017
A bit of a Pollyanna?
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...
Andrew Scott
Jun 17, 2017
Feedback from Practitioners
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,...
Andrew Scott
Jun 10, 2017
Putting it all together...
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...
Andrew Scott
Apr 19, 2017
Milking it?
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...
Andrew Scott
Apr 1, 2017
Helpful Stories
I was reflecting on sales of Shifting Stories this week. The graph of relative sales position on Amazon looks like this: Combined with...
Andrew Scott
Mar 26, 2017
The Power of Endings
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...
Andrew Scott
Feb 26, 2017
Beware: Stories at Work!
A while back, I started initial conversations as I began to do some work for a large organisation, and in my discussions with various...
Andrew Scott
Dec 15, 2016
On Learning from Books
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...
Andrew Scott
Oct 27, 2016
Try it for Yourself
This is an exercise I use on my Stories for Change Workshop, to give people an experience of the ManyStory Approach in practice. It...
Andrew Scott
Oct 27, 2016
Wider Implications
In this blog post, I want to broaden the focus from the exploration of stories in an organisational context, to consider their use in...
Andrew Scott
Oct 27, 2016
Learning & development
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...
Andrew Scott
Oct 27, 2016
New Teams
In the book, the chapter on teams focuses on working with teams that already exist. In this post, we will consider newly formed teams....
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