Rewrite Your Story: Courageous Life Scripts
Rewriting personal narratives
This workshop is designed to help you reshape the stories you tell yourself. Work through creative exercises to uncover your current internal narratives shaped by long-held beliefs. Explore early memories, reflect on their current impact, and gently update…
Cognitive Reframing
Communication Skills Practice
Journalling & Reflection
Narrative Practice
Story Sharing
Storytelling
Workshop
Description
This workshop is designed to help you reshape the stories you tell yourself. Work through creative exercises to uncover your current internal narratives shaped by long-held beliefs. Explore early memories, reflect on their current impact, and gently update the story to open doors to personal growth and resilience. Using techniques grounded in positive psychology research, this session encourages deep introspection paired with actionable strategies for lasting change. Join us for a unique blend of self-reflection and interactive dialogue to craft a more empowering personal narrative. Step into a future where the story you tell yourself is a source of strength and joy.
Dive into the experience:
- Welcome & Introductions: Create a safe space with an overview of session goals and personal intention-setting.
- Topic Framing: Discover how “words create worlds” for shaping who we think we are, and how we can shift unhelpful narratives into updated, useful inner messages.
- Interactive Writing Exercise: Reflect on a belief you hold about yourself and the ‘origin story’ of this belief. Reflect on how this belief is or isn’t serving you now, and practice gently reframing an unhelpful belief.
- Commitment to Action: Conclude with a reflection on key insights and commit to one reframing of an unhelpful narrative into a bold new story.
- Optional breakout groups and peer sharing, depending on session length. Engage in meaningful discussions in small groups to explore personal insights and strategies.
Benefits
- Enhanced Self-Awareness: Identify and understand personal life scripts. Recognize the difference between helpful and unhelpful narratives.
- Empowerment to Change: Learn techniques to gently alter limiting beliefs, transforming past limitations into opportunities for growth.
- Resilience Building: Develop tools to approach future challenges with courage by nourishing inner strength and adaptability.
- Boosted Confidence: Develop a sense of inner alignment by rewriting personal stories to reflect more updated personal beliefs.
Hosted by Caitlin McDonald
About the Host
My coaching helps people to find courage in the complicated: in a time of increasing volatility, we all need tools for surviving and thriving. Using a series of research-validated core competencies, coaching helps us become more of the selves that we want to be, more of the time. I am an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a trained Mental Health First Aider, which helps me point people in the right direction at the times they need it most. As a cancer survivor, I know deep in my bones how a catastrophe can transform into an opportunity to explore personal growth, uncovering hidden reserves of resilience and inner strength. I'm based in the vibrant neighbourhood of Leith in Edinburgh, whose crest featuring a ship of hope over the motto 'Persevere' has been a source of solace and solidarity for people living here since the 12th century. With a background as a technology strategist of 10+ years’ experience working with high-performing individuals and teams at globally recognised Fortune 250+ companies, national governments and intergovernmental organisations, I understand the pressures and complexities that leaders are facing in an increasingly fast-paced and fractious world. Through guided activities I offer individuals and teams the opportunity to top up resilience reserves and nourish inner courage. This empowers clients to find strength within themselves to approach every challenge with fortitude and joy. I am also an award-winning researcher for futures research and for creative industries innovation, and an artist whose work has been featured in several international art exhibitions.
Travel Locations
Willing to travel anywhere in the UK provided client reimburses travel expenses – agreed on a per-session basis at time of booking. Willing to travel anywhere in the world for longer programmes/retreats provided client reimburses travel expenses.
Certifications & Credentials
ICF ACC profile: https://www.coachingfederation.org.uk/find-coach/coach-detail/923 Oxygen indemnity insurance (certificate available on request.)
Focus Areas
Development/Coaching
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Languages
English
Corporate Experience
Moderate
Session Types Offered
Interactive (eg. improv, group-art, yoga etc.)
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
Microphone and projector for sessions exceeding 25 people; pens or coloured markers and paper for participants.
Past Clients
Wiley, The Outsiders (Outdoor Office Day), Yorkshire Festival of Story
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