Narrative Process

JourneyCircles™ Voicing is an exploration of telling the stories that are ready to be told.

Narrative Process using image, symbol and visual storytelling is a valuable and powerful tool for understanding root stories, stuck stories and unconscious beliefs, while accessing new information to support and experience restorative healing.

Narrative Coaching offers a specific approach to guiding process and tracking awareness and experience. This offers a client space to unfold their experience, as the coach assists a client in discovering the lanugage of symbol, metaphor and meaning - this becomes one's living language.

By combining elements of visual narrative, a story told primarily through art-based medium, experiential process mirrors and amplifies lived experience.

Using narrative and depth coaching techniques, the coach invites the client to deepen their own field of experience. This will happen within art-making, using story as a catalyst. It takes the shape personal myth, as experience is claimed.

Using tools of narrative process one will explore and re-story their stories, finding expanded perspective for self and other. Engaging narrative creates a specific way and mode of communication and expression. One will create and voice new meaning, exposing possibility that can clarify what has been previously perceived as shadow, shame, absolute or impossible.

There are parts of self, personal narratives and secret stories that are waiting to tell their tales. Many narratives need a safe space to begin to surface and unfurl.

Variations of Story Starters

In this story...

  • I am....
  • she is...
  • he is...
  • it is...
  • they are...

Unfolding the Story

In this space or place.

  • I notice...
  • I see...
  • I hear...
  • I remember...
  • I recognize...
  • I heal...
  • I feel...

Pattern Play

Move card images around to find new elements emerging, within the overarching narrative...how does the story change.

Notice how images are feeling and communicating with you and with one another....

Notice how proximity, distance, connection and overlapping images will change the story...

Ask Powerful Questions

Who are you?

What is your name?

Why have you come forth?

How am I connected to you?

What do you have to tell me that I don’t know yet?

Where is your place of healing?

What is the feeling you carry with you?