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Capacity Building

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Narrative-based Action Learning

Our distinctive methodology develops collective capacity to address complex challenges through structured narrative engagement. Rather than seeking premature consensus, we create "scenario narratives" that capture telling situations within complex challenges, bringing diverse perspectives into productive tension. This process reveals dimensions no single viewpoint could illuminate and uncovers possibilities prefiguratively present in the situation. Originally developed with local governments, it now transforms community development, organizational change, and cross-sector collaboration by making complexity manageable without oversimplification.
Read the full text here or contact us to explore how this approach might address your organization's challenges.
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Narrative Coaching

Narrative Coaching helps committed individuals craft meaningful leadership practice through the stories they tell about themselves and their circumstances. Through a distinctive one-on-one relationship characterized by deep narrative attentiveness, we help leaders recognize and reconstruct the narratives shaping their experience and action. This intimate dialogue creates space where personal narratives – often invisible to their authors – become available for reflection and reconfiguration. The result is leadership practice that aligns personal values with public action, creating resilience and sustainable engagement.
Read the full text or contact us to discuss beginning a coaching engagement.

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Publications

  • The Democracy School Story [PDF]
  • 100 Iterations of Collapse, Algorithmic Images of Resistance [PDF]
  • Emergence of the Cube Problem: An Art-Based Research Inquiry [PDF]
  • The Cubic Order: Technological Control, Environmental Collapse, and Resistance [PDF]
  • The Concept and Methodology of Narrative Prefiguration [PDF]
  • The Practice of Possibility [PDF]
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  • Commentary & Debate
    • Annotations
    • re:frame & dis:kursiv
    • Substack
  • Cultural Interventions
    • Forest Ecologies
    • Silent Lectures
    • Project Archive
  • Capacity Building
    • Practising Possibility
    • Experiential Learning
    • Narrative Coaching
  • The School
    • About us >
      • The School
      • Our History
      • Contact
    • Corporate Services >
      • Knowledge Base
      • Consultancy Services
      • Evaluations
    • Publishing >
      • Unruhe Media
      • LHA Media