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Re-authoring the World : the narrative lens and practices for organisations, communities and individuals / Chene Swart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swart, Chene, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narrative therapy.
- Psychotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Randburg, Republic of South Africa : Knowres Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Narrative Lens and Practices for Organisations, Communities and Individuals, invites readers to a transformational way of being in the world. It translates the Narrative Therapy approach and practices for people outside the therapeutic context that are interested in shifting the stories of their own lives as well as the communities and organisations that they work in. The book invites readers out of docility and complacency into active participation and accountability of the worlds that they are connected to.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction to the Narrative Approach
- Talking Narrative
- The Problem Story
- Challenging Our Complacencies
- The Possibility of the Narrative Lens
- Re-Authoring Our World
- Part I: Narrative Work as a Way of Being
- Chapter One: The Narratives of Self
- The World of Silent Servant
- The Fall
- Naming the Alternative Narrative
- Enriching the Alternative Narrative
- Saying Goodbye
- Part II: Invitations to Re-Humanise
- Chapter Two: Sanibonani to Human Beings
- Human Beings As Storying Beings
- Human Beings As Naming Beings
- Human Beings As Interpreting Beings
- Human Beings As Knowledgeable Beings
- Human Beings As Agents and Authors
- Chapter Three: Re-Authorise our World
- Taken-for-Granted-Beliefs and Ideas
- Whom We Authorise to Speak
- The Influence and Effects of the Taken-for-Granted
- How to Live the Life
- The Effects of the Alternative Way of Living
- Chapter Four: Re-Dream our World Through Alternative Narratives
- Invitations into the Alternative Narrative
- The Portal into Human Becoming
- From Isolation to Belonging As a Community Comes Alongside
- The Gifts of the Community
- What the Alternative Narrative Is Not
- Part III: How to Do the Work
- Chapter Five: Transformational Conversations
- Creating a Transformational Space
- Transformational Listening
- Transformational Questioning
- Transformational Documentation
- Chapter Six: A Walk-Through of the Narrative Process
- The Ground and Roots of the Work
- The Relationship That Carries the Work
- A Walk Through the Narrative Process
- Chapter Seven: Puting the Narrative Process to Work
- Calling Out the Stars in the Constellation
- Thin and Thick Descriptions of Our Stories
- Naming the Constellation of the Problem Story
- Exploring the Alternative Story
- Reflections.
- Chapter Eight: Re-Authoring the Communal Narrative
- Narrative Group or Communal Work
- Invitation
- The Narrative Process for Communities
- The Story of the Community
- Constructing the Community's Social History
- Part IV: Narrative Work in the Organisational World
- Chapter Nine: The Story of Scarcity and Abundance
- Shifting the Economics
- Implications for the Work and World of Business
- Chapter Ten: Narrative Coaching
- The Corporate Coaching World
- The Narrative Coaching Process
- The Application of the Narrative Ideas
- Stories of Work
- Ethical Implications of the Work
- The Coachee Is Not Alone
- An Example of Practice
- Chapter Eleven: Narrative Leadership
- The Industry of Leadership
- The World That the Leadership Story Is Living and Leaning into
- The Taken-for-Granted Ideas and Beliefs Informing Our Current Understanding of Leadership
- What the Narrative Leadership Lens Is Not
- Narrative Leadership As An Alternative
- Narrative Leadership in Action: The Journey into The Mystery ofGreat Love
- Chapter Twelve: Narrative Consulting
- Consulting With the Narrative Approach in South Africa
- The Work of a Narrative Consultant
- The Gift of the Narrative Work to Organisations
- Part V: The Transformational Nature of the Narrative Work
- Chapter Thirteen: Invitations to Transformation
- Invitations and Portals to Transformation
- Re-Authoring As a Doorway to Transformation
- The Manifestations of Transformation
- The Unending Transformation
- The Space in-between Narratives
- Communal Transformation
- Transformation of All That We Have Known
- Reading List for the Curious
- Websites
- Books
- Works Consulted
- Glossary
- About the Author
- The Voices of the Readers
- Index
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 4, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 923783019
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