Cover -- Contents -- Introduction to the Narrative Approach -- Talking Narrative -- The Problem Story -- Challenging Our Complacencies -- The Possibility of the Narrative Lens -- Re-Authoring Our World -- Part I: Narrative Work as a Way of Being -- Chapter One: The Narratives of Self -- The World of Silent Servant -- The Fall -- Naming the Alternative Narrative -- Enriching the Alternative Narrative -- Saying Goodbye -- Part II: Invitations to Re-Humanise -- Chapter Two: Sanibonani to Human Beings -- Human Beings As Storying Beings -- Human Beings As Naming Beings -- Human Beings As Interpreting Beings -- Human Beings As Knowledgeable Beings -- Human Beings As Agents and Authors -- Chapter Three: Re-Authorise our World -- Taken-for-Granted-Beliefs and Ideas -- Whom We Authorise to Speak -- The Influence and Effects of the Taken-for-Granted -- How to Live the Life -- The Effects of the Alternative Way of Living -- Chapter Four: Re-Dream our World Through Alternative Narratives -- Invitations into the Alternative Narrative -- The Portal into Human Becoming -- From Isolation to Belonging As a Community Comes Alongside -- The Gifts of the Community -- What the Alternative Narrative Is Not -- Part III: How to Do the Work -- Chapter Five: Transformational Conversations -- Creating a Transformational Space -- Transformational Listening -- Transformational Questioning -- Transformational Documentation -- Chapter Six: A Walk-Through of the Narrative Process -- The Ground and Roots of the Work -- The Relationship That Carries the Work -- A Walk Through the Narrative Process -- Chapter Seven: Puting the Narrative Process to Work -- Calling Out the Stars in the Constellation -- Thin and Thick Descriptions of Our Stories -- Naming the Constellation of the Problem Story -- Exploring the Alternative Story -- Reflections.

Chapter Eight: Re-Authoring the Communal Narrative -- Narrative Group or Communal Work -- Invitation -- The Narrative Process for Communities -- The Story of the Community -- Constructing the Community's Social History -- Part IV: Narrative Work in the Organisational World -- Chapter Nine: The Story of Scarcity and Abundance -- Shifting the Economics -- Implications for the Work and World of Business -- Chapter Ten: Narrative Coaching -- The Corporate Coaching World -- The Narrative Coaching Process -- The Application of the Narrative Ideas -- Stories of Work -- Ethical Implications of the Work -- The Coachee Is Not Alone -- An Example of Practice -- Chapter Eleven: Narrative Leadership -- The Industry of Leadership -- The World That the Leadership Story Is Living and Leaning into -- The Taken-for-Granted Ideas and Beliefs Informing Our Current Understanding of Leadership -- What the Narrative Leadership Lens Is Not -- Narrative Leadership As An Alternative -- Narrative Leadership in Action: The Journey into The Mystery ofGreat Love -- Chapter Twelve: Narrative Consulting -- Consulting With the Narrative Approach in South Africa -- The Work of a Narrative Consultant -- The Gift of the Narrative Work to Organisations -- Part V: The Transformational Nature of the Narrative Work -- Chapter Thirteen: Invitations to Transformation -- Invitations and Portals to Transformation -- Re-Authoring As a Doorway to Transformation -- The Manifestations of Transformation -- The Unending Transformation -- The Space in-between Narratives -- Communal Transformation -- Transformation of All That We Have Known -- Reading List for the Curious -- Websites -- Books -- Works Consulted -- Glossary -- About the Author -- The Voices of the Readers -- Index -- Back cover.