Useful conversations in the room - and thinking that continues after it.
The Narrative Turn workplace programmes combine facilitated conversation, coaching approaches and reflective practice to help people feel a stronger sense of belonging, lead through better conversations and create space to think at work.
Designed for teams, leaders and cohorts, programmes can be delivered online or in person - creating useful conversations in the room and thinking that continues after people leave it.
A workshop for employees and action learning sets for managers to peer coach each other with challenges on belonging.
When someone’s contribution starts to drift, the answer isn’t always performance management.
A change of manager. A restructure. A return from leave. A promotion that doesn’t feel quite as expected. Months of change. Or simply the gradual feeling that the organisation and the person have moved apart.
It can show up as disengagement, reduced confidence, underperformance or someone who seems to have stopped contributing in the way they once did.
People can lose their sense of place at work long before they leave.
The Belonging Map
The Six Conditions of Belonging
The Belonging Map is a practical framework and guided workbook built around six conditions that shape our experience of belonging at work.
Six lenses for reflection and conversation - not scores or a diagnostic test.
Together, the six conditions offer a way to explore what has shifted between a person and their workplace - and where there may be room to reconnect.
Through facilitated reflection and conversation, employees explore their relationship with their role, team and organisation.
Managers develop the skills to have better conversations around belonging, contribution and change - without immediately moving into fixing or performance mode.
For organisations experiencing change, restructuring, disengagement or shifts in employee experience.
Knowing about coaching isn’t the same as being able to coach when someone is sitting in front of you.
The Coaching Edge gives managers somewhere to practise.
Leaders work with real workplace conversations - learning when to ask rather than answer, when to stay with someone else’s thinking and when not to step in.
01Partnership
02Presence
03Potential
Three dimensions of a coaching mindset. Practised over time, not taught once and forgotten.
Live practice labs create space to experiment, notice habits, get feedback and try again - so coaching becomes something managers can use in the flow of work.
We offer the solution. Ask another question. Share what worked for us. Fill the silence. Step in when someone seems stuck.
Helpful?
Sometimes.
But sometimes our instinct to help gets in the way of someone else’s thinking.
Notice
Check
Choose
What gets in the way?
Hold That Thought is a practical workshop exploring what happens in the moment between intending to coach and actually doing it.
Participants notice their own conversational habits, experiment with different responses and practise staying with another person’s thinking - particularly when the temptation is to step in, solve, suggest or rescue.
This isn’t about learning the “right” coaching questions.
It’s about becoming more aware of what you do in a real conversation - and having more choice about what you do next.
Hold that thought. Be more coach.
A practical workshop for managers and leaders who want coaching to become part of everyday workplace conversations - not something they only remember on a training course.
Facilitating Action Learning Sets - peer coaching - to help your managers and leaders develop skills to enhance performance.
Clients: Clore Social, Social Impact Leaders programmes
Team Away Days & Refresh Values
Hire Nicky to help your staff connect more deeply, see things in a new light using creative and Narrative tools.
Clients' Words
“A huge big thank you for all your support, guidance, leadership, facilitation and care.
I have so enjoyed and benefitted from the the course, and how you have delivered it.
I have appreciated your feedback on my development plan and I have really valued and learnt from how you have lead, facilitated and held the group.
It has been a joy to be a part of it, and also incredibly enlightening, useful and insightful on so many levels.”
Social Impact Founder and Director
Speaking
Conferences, panels and roundtables
As a trainer and facilitator for many decades, I am an effective and engaging speaker. I have presented at practitioners’ conferences, academic conferences and NGO roundtables.
