TELLING CHANGES - FROM NARRATIVE FAMILY-THERAPY TO ORGANIZATIONAL-CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

Explores how developments in the ground-breaking field of narrative fa mily therapy might be applied to organizational change efforts. After an introductory discussion of some of narrative therapy's key orientat ions and practices (e.g. postmodern nations of language and power, inf luence mapping, problem externalization, unique outcomes, audiencing), an extended example is given There a narrative approach was used to e ffect change in a health-care organization. The case is used to genera te a series of research questions and directions.