story elements
This is material in development at the Career-learning Café
this version is based on Fewer Lists, More Stories at
www.hihohiho.com/underpinning/cafbiog.pdf
comments and suggestion welcome - bill@hihohiho.com
... making connections - finding the
cause-and-effect links between
factors and events
...of different approaches
...each with practical applications - e.g.
... making lists of elements - setting
down facts and impressions
... working with boundaries: -
separating facts into groups and
looking for significant factors
... using stories - assembling sequences
- with encounters, feelings, allegiances,
points-of-view and responses
...
item-by-item checklists and worksheets
... alphabetical directories of opportunity
... data-bases framed by interests
...
factor-by-factor interview structures
... open structure interviewing
... building-up mind maps
...
learner-led interviewing and counselling
... biographical story telling
in each story
1. encounter as career catalyst
2. allegiances made and let go
3.
feelings and tensions
4. awarenesses and intuitions
5. role expectations
6. roles and cultures
7. role conceptions
8
role expansion
9.
language and learning
10. language and entrapment
11. learning and discomfort
12. learning and intuition
13. luck and learning
14. resolving through explanation
15. inner life, thought and feelings
16. other stories and meta-narratives
17 purposes and facts
18. themes and needs
19. crucial questions - helpers’ and learners’
20. points of view and other people’s stories
e. the meanings
d. the events
c. the talk
b. the settings
a. the people
could we be using too many lists and not enough stories?
as part of a range