Narrative Coaching: The Definitive Guide to Bringing New Stories to Life

REAL CHANGE IN REAL TIME—THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO WORKING WITH PEOPLE’S STORIES IN COACHING

This is a rare book; it is grounded in both a deep academic rigor and a deep personal understanding of how people change. It is a treasure chest of information and insights based in over twenty years of experience. It will enable you to get to the crux of people’s issues in less time and help them make significant shifts in the moment. This book is an indispensable resource for anyone who works with people’s stories and wants to develop themselves so they have more impact.

The tools and models are presented in simple and clear language. However, there is a depth here that offers a limitless guide for your learning. Narrative Coaching is timely because it works at the level of identities, addresses the collective narratives that shape our stories, and expands the roles and modalities we can use to bring about transformational change with individuals and teams.

What is new in this edition:

• It goes deeper into attachment theory and applied mindfulness
• It offers design thinking as a framework for adult development
• It shows how change is a naturally human and integrative process
• It offers more examples and cases, e.g., how to coach without goals

This book will both challenge you and inspire you to think in new ways about what is possible in your life and in your practice.

David B Drake, PhD, is founder and CEO of the Moment Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area. He pioneered the field of Narrative Coaching, and he has taught coaching skills to over 10,000 leaders, managers, and professionals in eighteen countries.

David has also contributed to narrative-based change and coaching initiatives in over seventy organizations. Clients include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Dropbox, Google, Logitech, Nike, PwC, Westpac, and the US and Australian federal governments.

He is the author of over fifty publications on narratives and coaching, and he is the editor of The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching (2008), and coeditor of the reference–level SAGE Handbook of Coaching (2016). He is a Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard.

He currently runs retreats to develop practitioners who can work across professions and extend the reach of what is possible through coaching through deepening their own development. He has also formed an alliance with WBECS, the world’s leading coaching platform and community, to launch his Narrative Coach program on a larger scale.

David splits his time between the Bay Area and Amsterdam, relishes his life as a father, and spends as much time in nature as possible.