The antidote to alienation,

the cure for chaos,

and the medicine for misalignment

is story.

narrative

Narrative connects us to ourselves, to each other, and to our moment. It is the key to navigating complexity, and the domain where the development of self and tribe can happen.

story-based thinking

Learn Story-Based Thinking, the art of applying narrative intelligence to questions of identity, direction, opportunity, threat, and purpose. Build stronger teams, integrate past successes and setbacks, and accelerate toward a future that’s calling.

Once

A new project launches…
A new team is formed…
A new strategy is announced…

When aspiration compels us forward, how do we harness the power of our hopes to set the right course?

At moments of beginning, Story-based Thinking helps us clarify the essentials: who we are, where we are, where we’re going, and what is known and unknown about the journey ahead.

But

Deadlines missed…
Targets too distant…
Teammates lost…
Visions forgotten…

When tripped by challenge or shaken by loss, how do we see, name, and own our failures and fears, in order to integrate and overcome them?

At these inevitable moments of crisis, Story-based Thinking spotlights where the path was lost, what invisible forces inside ourselves invited disruption, and what factors outside ourselves broke the frame.

Until

Marshaling resources…
Activating networks…
Empowering teams…

When all seems lost, how do we find a better way? What makes a comeback possible? What is the architecture of turnaround? How can we redeem the struggles of the moment? 

At the hollow bottom of disappointment, Story-based Thinking helps us move from weakness to courage, to take decisions boldly, to build purposeful staircases from the floor of disorientation toward a new way of approaching the vision we first cast.

At Last

The milestone is crossed,
The product launched,
The target achieved,
The trophy in hand.

When we’ve reached the summit, where do we go? What have we learned? Who have we become? And how do we carry with us what we learned along the way?

At the high point of achievement, Story-based Thinking prompts us to look back at rivers crossed and deserts outlasted, to gather what our pasts have taught us — and to integrate this new knowledge into our future, better selves.

See Story-based Thinking in Action

The antidote to alienation, the cure for chaos, and the medicine for misalignment is story.

narrative

story-based thinking

Once

A new project launches… A new team is formed… A new strategy is announced…

When aspiration compels us forward, how do we harness the power of our hopes to set the right course?