Uncovering Spiritual Narratives: Using Story in Pastoral Care and Ministry (Biblia.com)

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All cultures use story as a way to make sense of life experiences. Yet for many, particularly in the western world, only a single story line is seen as the “real truth.” Using narrative therapy as a caregiving approach can help individuals uncover multi-layered narratives that are far more complex and liberating. Coyle contends that not only are these more complex narratives more helpful in...

sense of how their lives have been touched by the expressions. Excessive praise, advice, or moralizing stories are not a part of the outsider witnesses’ responses. The expressions of stories take many forms through this process of telling, retelling of the telling, and retelling of the retelling. The thickened stories are shared by the teller as well as the witnesses. Scaffolding conversations were developed by White shortly before his death in 2008, using the work of Lev Vygotsky, a

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