Group narrative coaching training
This advanced, online course combines individual coaching, group masterclasses and personal supervision
Introducing the course
Our narrative coaching training is completed online and over a 6-month period. It is rich blend of theory and practice, with plenty of practical coaching ideas that can be applied immediately.
Who is it for?
The course is designed for experienced internal coaches. It is set up for groups of coaches that are working within organisations. The training consists of live, online sessions. It is accessible to experienced coaches based anywhere in the world. It is ideal for those coaches who are keen to develop their practice and who are fascinated by the power of story in culture, business and the lives of their clients.
Our training will provide internal coaches with an opportunity to build their capabilities in working with personal and organisational stories. Adding an additional, distinctive narrative strand and a fresh approach to their coaching offer.
We have selected a spread of fascinating ideas from the narrative world and synthesised them together in a highly accessible manner. They are explained and explored in a way they can be easily applied to coaching.
The course focuses on advanced coaching skills in three crucial areas:
- Narrative literacy, sense making and purpose
- Decision making, change and follow through
- Addressing clients’ most pressing personal and business needs
This training will enhance coaches’ abilities to integrate multiple perspectives and different time frames for clients; it will build their capability to connect the immediate and the personal with wider relational and organisational matters.
Course aims
Coaches will also gain:
- More confidence in working with clients’ stories – personally and professionally
- Increased understanding of how people’s identity and purpose are framed through the multi-layered narratives within their lives
- Added capability in working with inner narrative, including blocks, assumptions, and on-going habitual thinking or behaviour
- Greater awareness of the ways in which clients connect with their resourcefulness and resilience through their own story telling
- Deeper skills in eliciting clients’ values and drawing these out so that they are clearly defined
- More dexterity in helping clients identify the variety, depth or brevity of the narratives that are appropriate to their situation
- How biases and blind spots create narratives and how, through greater awareness, the stories can change
- Enhanced abilities in supporting clients to construct effective organisational and team narratives
- Valuable expertise to complement your existing coaching approaches – one that will set you apart from the many other coaches
What the course covers
The course explores the most important current theories around narrative and stories, and it will introduce you to the key thought leaders in the field.
These include the ideas of Dan McAdams, Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Susan Greenfield, Ruthellen Josselson, Michael Bamberg and several others. We will be integrating Martin Buber’s concept of I-Thou dialogue and incorporating insights from Gestalt Psychology.
THE STORY SO FAR…
As part of the course coaches will be given the book ‘The Story So Far’ – An Introduction to Transformational Narrative Coaching by Nick Isbister and Jude Elliman. Nick and Jude are also the course developers and run the on-line group training with their Associate Course Leaders regularly across the year. Their book covers the content of the training. It is a valuable resource to back-up the course, extending understanding by describing the training ideas in greater depth.
GROUP TRAINING FRAMEWORK
This training is for internal coaches
Group size – up to 10 delegates
- One group introductory session (90 minutes)
- Two individual coaching sessions (90-minute each)
- Three whole group two-hour masterclasses
- After the masterclasses, one individual coaching session (90 minutes)
- Three follow-on group supervision sessions (two-hours each) across the year – post training
Regular coaching group supervision for the internal coaches is considered to be good coaching practice. It is seen as an essential part of the course integration.
Meet our directors
‘It’s been a privilege to both be coached by the Listening Partnership as an executive in BT PLC, as well as to be trained by them later as a Transformational Narrative Coach. I’m still using these key leadership and coaching skills in my everyday professional life.’
Kwen Ip
Advancement HK/Asia
True Grit – The importance of getting your story straight
Failure hurts. When you fail, make mistakes, relationships become strained or you disappointingly lose, it can shatter your equilibrium. Inevitably it always involves having to pick yourself up and dust ourselves off. It can take plenty of resolve and resilience to start again.
“It’s been a privilege to both be coached by the Listening Partnership as an executive in BT PLC, as well as to be trained by them later as a Transformational Narrative Coach. I’m still using these key leadership and coaching skills in my everyday professional life.”
Kwen Ip
Advancement HK/Asia
“TNC has proven to be a powerful way of working with individuals who are navigating transition in their lives and careers. Nick and Jude have distilled a breadth of thinking on personal and professional transformations, providing the coach with a methodology, that generates new awareness and choice, and the basis for the client to create a new story.”
Anne Burghgraef
Clinical Director, Solace Surviving Exile & Persecution
About Narrative Fallacy – And how to stop it running your life
Humans adore stories. We also love the idea of cause and effect, and that's why we create narratives to explain and justify the way we are, the things we do and the way we feel.
True Grit – The importance of getting your story straight
Failure hurts. When you fail, make mistakes, relationships become strained or you disappointingly lose, it can shatter your equilibrium. Inevitably it always involves having to pick yourself up and dust ourselves off. It can take plenty of resolve and resilience to start again.
Story-driven businesses – How great companies are winning by mattering
You could pull out all the stops to compete, making every effort to become the best in every way, at every stage. Or you could win by mattering instead - mattering to your employees, mattering to the local and wider economy, mattering to your customers.
The power of visual storytelling in a digital age
Michael and Jack Whitehall are an unlikely double-act - a father and son duo. In their talk-show, Backchat, and with their recent travel shows, Travels with my Father, they constantly, repeatedly miss each others’ point. Their humour is based on the fact that Michael aged 79 and Jack aged 29 live in the same world but also inhabit totally different worlds. Their assumptions, their beliefs, the things they value are at total variance with each other.
Introducing the course
Our narrative coaching training is completed online and over a 6-month period. It is rich blend of theory and practice, with plenty of practical coaching ideas that can be applied immediately.
Who is it for?
The course is designed for experienced internal coaches. It is set up for groups of coaches that are working within organisations. The training consists of live, online sessions. It is accessible to experienced coaches based anywhere in the world. It is ideal for those coaches who are keen to develop their practice and who are fascinated by the power of story in culture, business and the lives of their clients.
Our training will provide internal coaches with an opportunity to build their capabilities in working with personal and organisational stories. Adding an additional, distinctive narrative strand and a fresh approach to their coaching offer.
We have selected a spread of fascinating ideas from the narrative world and synthesised them together in a highly accessible manner. They are explained and explored in a way they can be easily applied to coaching.
The course focuses on advanced coaching skills in three crucial areas:
- Narrative literacy, sense making and purpose
- Decision making, change and follow through
- Addressing clients’ most pressing personal and business needs
This training will enhance coaches’ abilities to integrate multiple perspectives and different time frames for clients; it will build their capability to connect the immediate and the personal with wider relational and organisational matters.
Course aims
Coaches will also gain:
- More confidence in working with clients’ stories – personally and professionally
- Increased understanding of how people’s identity and purpose are framed through the multi-layered narratives within their lives
- Added capability in working with inner narrative, including blocks, assumptions, and on-going habitual thinking or behaviour
- Greater awareness of the ways in which clients connect with their resourcefulness and resilience through their own story telling
- Deeper skills in eliciting clients’ values and drawing these out so that they are clearly defined
- More dexterity in helping clients identify the variety, depth or brevity of the narratives that are appropriate to their situation
- How biases and blind spots create narratives and how, through greater awareness, the stories can change
- Enhanced abilities in supporting clients to construct effective organisational and team narratives
- Valuable expertise to complement your existing coaching approaches – one that will set you apart from the many other coaches
What the course covers
The course explores the most important current theories around narrative and stories, and it will introduce you to the key thought leaders in the field.
These include the ideas of Dan McAdams, Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Susan Greenfield, Ruthellen Josselson, Michael Bamberg and several others. We will be integrating Martin Buber’s concept of I-Thou dialogue and incorporating insights from Gestalt Psychology.
THE STORY SO FAR…
As part of the course coaches will be given the book ‘The Story So Far’ – An Introduction to Transformational Narrative Coaching by Nick Isbister and Jude Elliman. Nick and Jude are also the course developers and run the on-line group training with their Associate Course Leaders regularly across the year. Their book covers the content of the training. It is a valuable resource to back-up the course, extending understanding by describing the training ideas in greater depth.
GROUP TRAINING FRAMEWORK
This training is for internal coaches
Group size – up to 10 delegates
- One group introductory session (90 minutes)
- Two individual coaching sessions (90-minute each)
- Three whole group two-hour masterclasses
- After the masterclasses, one individual coaching session (90 minutes)
- Three follow-on group supervision sessions (two-hours each) across the year – post training
Regular coaching group supervision for the internal coaches is considered to be good coaching practice. It is seen as an essential part of the course integration.
Meet our directors
‘It’s been a privilege to both be coached by the Listening Partnership as an executive in BT PLC, as well as to be trained by them later as a Transformational Narrative Coach. I’m still using these key leadership and coaching skills in my everyday professional life.’
Kwen Ip
Advancement HK/Asia
True Grit – The importance of getting your story straight
Failure hurts. When you fail, make mistakes, relationships become strained or you disappointingly lose, it can shatter your equilibrium. Inevitably it always involves having to pick yourself up and dust ourselves off. It can take plenty of resolve and resilience to start again.
“It’s been a privilege to both be coached by the Listening Partnership as an executive in BT PLC, as well as to be trained by them later as a Transformational Narrative Coach. I’m still using these key leadership and coaching skills in my everyday professional life.”
Kwen Ip
Advancement HK/Asia
“TNC has proven to be a powerful way of working with individuals who are navigating transition in their lives and careers. Nick and Jude have distilled a breadth of thinking on personal and professional transformations, providing the coach with a methodology, that generates new awareness and choice, and the basis for the client to create a new story.”
Anne Burghgraef
Clinical Director, Solace Surviving Exile & Persecution
Meet our directors
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About Narrative Fallacy – And how to stop it running your life
Humans adore stories. We also love the idea of cause and effect, and that's why we create narratives to explain and justify the way we are, the things we do and the way we feel.
True Grit – The importance of getting your story straight
Failure hurts. When you fail, make mistakes, relationships become strained or you disappointingly lose, it can shatter your equilibrium. Inevitably it always involves having to pick yourself up and dust ourselves off. It can take plenty of resolve and resilience to start again.
