Narrative Coaching courses for groups
As an internal coach, you play a pivotal role in navigating complexity, uncertainty and transformation within your organisation. Group Narrative Coaching training is designed specifically for you, whether coaching is your full-time role or something you do alongside your primary responsibilities. This programme equips you with the tools to facilitate meaningful leadership and cultural shifts through the power of storytelling.
Course structure: a collaborative learning experience
Over six months, you will engage in a structured programme that blends group learning, individual coaching and supervision. This ensures that you can immediately integrate narrative coaching into your organisation. The course includes:
- One group introductory session to set the foundation for learning (90 minutes)
- Two individual coaching sessions to deepen your personal development (90 minutes each)
- Three group masterclasses to explore key narrative coaching themes (2 hours each)
- One individual coaching session to apply your learning, post-masterclass (90 minutes)
- Three follow-on group supervision sessions across the year to refine your practice through peer insights (2 hours each)
- A copy of The Story So Far – An Introduction to Transformational Narrative Coaching by Nick Isbister and Jude Elliman
- A comprehensive digital course guidebook, providing key models and coaching frameworks
What you will learn
This programme offers a rich, structured learning experience that balances theory and practice. You will develop expertise in:
- Narrative literacy, sense-making, and purpose
- understanding how personal and organisational narratives shape leadership, culture, and decision-making
- exploring how you can help leaders make sense of complexity through storytelling
- identifying and shifting the underlying narratives that drive behaviour and organisational culture
- Working with inner narratives
- recognising how biases and assumptions shape personal and professional stories
- learning techniques to reframe unhelpful narratives and foster new perspectives
- aligning values with leadership actions
- Systemic and leadership narratives
- working with organisational narratives to drive cultural transformation
- developing leaders' ability to craft and communicate compelling narratives
- using systemic approaches to coaching within large and complex environments
- Decision-making, navigating change, and follow-through
- supporting individuals through significant transitions and decision-making moments
- navigating uncertainty with a structured narrative coaching approach
- applying new thinking and greater psychological flexibility to challenges and change
Is this course right for you?
This course is designed for experienced coaches who are working within their own organisational context. You are interested in exploring the power of narrative in leadership development and organisational change. The course will provide you with new coaching tools and techniques, and you will experience the impact of the Transformational Narrative Coaching process for yourself.
How to get started
This six-month programme runs throughout the year with fixed start dates. Delivered online, it ensures accessibility for internal coaches worldwide. If you are interested in making this course available to the internal coaches in your organisation, contact us to discuss the opportunity in more detail.
Who it's for
✔ Experienced internal leadership coaches who work with leaders and teams
✔ Professionals coaching individuals inside their organisation while performing another primary role
✔ HR and L&OD specialists with roles that involve coaching
“In the fast-growing world of executive coaching, it is rare to find a truly robust, credible and deep approach that is both refreshing and practical. Transformational Narrative Coaching is one such approach.”
Tim Richardson
Director and Executive Coach, Waverley Learning
Meet Our Team
- Executive Coach and Business Consultant
- Executive Coach and Supervisor
- Executive Coach And Leadership Development Facilitator
- Executive Coach And Board Advisor
- Executive Coach And Leadership Strategist