Transforming Narrative Waters

Summary

A 2021 map of a UK practice still finding its vocabulary. From three months’ reading and twelve interviews, Ruth Taylor reports agreement that deep narratives “sit beneath other more specific narratives” and “permeate and are reinforced by nearly everything around us”. The first of her five barriers asks “who is getting resourced to do this work”.

Rationale

Getting Deep cites this report for widening what counts as narrative practice. It speaks of durably shifting deep narratives; we’ve since grown wary of ‘shift’, and of ‘narrative’ too.