Narrative coachingnarrative

Narrative coaching rests on the idea that a person constructs their own life as a story. It comes from the narrative therapy of Michael White and David Epston and uses the distinction 'the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem'. A client can be captive to the dominant story they tell about themselves; the coach proposes bringing this story out and rereading it together. When the same events are told from another frame, the person sees a different hero. When the story changes, the identity one owns changes too.