Using Story in Coaching

Margaret Echols, Karen Gravenstine and Sandy Mobley

Chapter Chapter 7 in On Becoming a Leadership Coach, 2008, pp 53-59 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since ancient times, we humans have told stories to make meaning and sense of our lives. The Hindu Mahabharata Homer’s epics, the Greek tragedies, the Bible, Shakespeare, Aesop’s Fables, the Grimm Brothers’ Fairy tales, the “sacred bundle stories” of Native American Indians, and the country and western ballads of Nashville are all powerful and amazing stories that inspire wonder and awe. In these stories, facts are mostly irrelevant. What matters is the underlying message they mean to convey—the values, passions, concerns, hopes, and dreams of the ones who tell them.

Keywords: Emotional Intelligence; Fairy Tale; Narrative Medicine; Employee Manual; Greek Tragedy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230614314_7

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