Pre-Con with Dr David Drake: Creating Moments of Meeting- An Experiential Introduction to Narrative Coaching
About the Half-Day Pre-Conference Workshop: Wednesday 23rd November 2016 from 9-12 noon
We live and work in a time when the ability to connect this way and hear one another’s stories is more important than ever. This highly experiential session will show you how to get to the crux of issues more quickly. Your important conversations (coaching or otherwise) will become more spacious and more generative. As a result, you can bring forth more of the whole story and address more of what truly matters.
You will gain a basic understanding and experience of radical presence, attachment theory, relational meditation and zones of proximal development—four of the building blocks of narrative coaching. We will explore them using Daniel Stern’s “moments of meeting” as a frame for any conversation. This work has been used with thousands of people and dozens of organizations around the world to help shape culture and bring about change.
The key learning objectives are:
• Learning what people most need from conversations at work
• Understanding the essential elements for creating “moments of meeting” in any conversation
• Understanding the four phases of narrative coaching to make the most of these moments
• Experiencing three simple processes to deepen your capabilities to create these moments
This workshop is for: Practitioners who work in or with organizations to develop people
About Dr David Drake:
Dr David Drake is the Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching & Design. He is the founder of the field of narrative coaching and has taught this work in 15 countries. He is a regular presenter at WBECS and a Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School.
David is the author of Narrative Coaching: Bringing Our New Stories to Life (available at conference) and over forty publications on narratives and coaching. His next books are on narrative design and as co-editor of the first reference-level handbook on coaching (Sage).
David has worked with 70 organizations in designing and delivering innovative change, coaching and leadership programs. He has taught coaching skills to over 10,000 leaders, managers and professionals, primarily in support of change initiatives. Clients include CBA, Google, IAG, Logitech, Nike, PwC, Westpac, US and Australian federal governments.
David lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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