SEARCH


Center for NARRATIVE COACHING + DESIGN
Center for NARRATIVE COACHING + DESIGN
  • HOME
  • SERVICES
    • OVERVIEW
    • FOR PRACTITIONERS
    • FOR ORGANIZATIONS
    • FOR EVENTS
  • RETREATS
  • RESOURCES
    • BLOG
  • ABOUT
    • DR. DAVID DRAKE
    • WHAT IS NARRATIVE COACHING? >
      • The Narrative Coaching Experience
  • CONTACT

What do the people you coach
​most need from you now ?
 
​

Attend a Crossing Your Next Threshold retreat with David Drake in
​2018 ​to experience real change in real time for yourself.

Would you like to make more of a difference?


Do you hear yourself saying things like:
  • “I love my work, but it’s so demanding that I don’t have time to care for myself.”
  • “I feel a bit stuck and am looking for a way to breakthrough to what is next for me.”
  • “I wish there was a way to combine my diverse talents to make more of an impact.”

What if there was a better way . . .

​What if you stopped striving to consume what you might need later,
and allowed yourself to live and work more fully now?

What if you stopped trying so hard to be helpful, and instead saw yourself
as a witness to deeply human change processes that are already underway?

​ What a relief that would be . . .           ​

You could:
  • De-clutter your work and life
  • Get to the crux of issues sooner
  • Take the next important step for you

The retreat is based in the principles and practices of David's pioneering work in Narrative Coaching, and it focuses on your development.
•  What threshold stands between you and your dream?
•  What healing do you need to stand in your hope?
•  What do you need to free yourself from to flourish?


Interested?

Attend our new retreat and learn how
to create real change in real time
— starting with yourself!
Picture
Picture
Picture
The Crossing Your Next Threshold retreat is built on the pioneering work of Dr David Drake, the founder of Narrative Coaching. While his largest audience is coaches, many participants are creative types, health care workers, educators, entrepreneurs, and more.

Crossing Your Next Threshold is for you if you want to:
  • Release old narratives to free up energy for what you want now
  • Align your personal and professional life to work as whole person
  • Have powerful new experiences not collect more explanations
  • Tap your own wisdom and express it in creative new ways
  • Flourish as you work across multiple disciplines and professions 
This retreat is not about adding more tools to your overflowing ’toolkit’. Instead, it is an invitation to step off the treadmill long enough to feel your own rhythm again, care for yourself, and discover what is next for you in how you live and work.
"David lives, eats, and breathes narrative; it’s what he does and who he is. It is like he can see into people’s souls through their narratives and help them see all of who they truly are.  |  Donna Karlin
Picture
You will cultivate a deeper trust in yourself and in the process as you work on real issues in your life and work. You will be guided through a number of the advanced tools David has developed to accelerate sustainable breakthroughs.

For example, you will learn how to shift states and responses quickly so you can learn and leverage any moment in service of yourself and/or others.

Rather than an escape from life, this retreat is an immersion into life. It is a highly experiential process that culminates in a very powerful process that is often life-changing. The learning is deepened through the courageous community that forms as peers work closely with each other.

What is the change you've been preparing for?

The retreat is designed around the framework that underpins narrative coaching (on the left).
You will learn the essentials of this work, and ultimately it is an invitation to change your life. You will begin by exploring what is true for you now and leave with a commitment to what works as you move forward.

Learn with the master: David Drake

Picture
David B Drake
The Crossing Your Next Threshold retreat is a product of two decades of scholarship and practice by Dr. David Drake. He is the founder of Narrative Coaching and the author of Narrative Coaching: The Definitive Guide to Bringing New Stories to Life (2017). He has taught his work to over 15,000 people in twenty countries. 

A master coach, facilitator, and thought leader, David is a Fellow for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard. David has written over 50 publications and used this work in companies like CBA, Dropbox, Google, Logitech, Nike, PwC, and numerous government agencies.

David founded the Moment Institute to deepen our understanding of how to foster real change in real time. It develops practitioners who can work in transformative ways with personal, organizational and social narratives. It is based in the belief that our stories are the source of our suffering and the opening for our liberation.

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
For me, this was a very personal experience, and it has created a strong and irreversible desire to change things in my life. This work will help me change the way I manage and coach my team—and do so with a deeper sense of purpose. 

- a  corporate leader

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

​What are the benefits of attending the retreat?

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
​“David has taught me to listen with my full attention. As a result, I notice what’s not being said and gently bring it to my client’s attention.  Each time it has resulted in a cathartic moment that took us in a whole new direction with more meaning and energy than ever before. It simply works.  His guidance has changed the way I work.

-past participant

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
One of the best -- possibly THE best workshop -- I have ever attended. David is bold and sincere.  He practices what he preaches. Gently and persistently, he focused us to stand in the moment so that new thoughts, stories and experiences could emerge.  It was life-changing.

- therapist and -author

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
By attending the Crossing Your Next Threshold retreat, you will:
  • Step into whatever is next for you in terms of your work or phase of life, feeling freer, nourished and transformed to move forward
  • Learn how to work more freely and fully in the moment with people while getting more lasting results
  • Expand the depth, reach and agility of your work using a unique combination of applied mindfulness and design thinking techniques
  • Prepare yourself to work in a very different future by learning how to bring more of your whole self to more integrative ways of working
  • Join a growing community of people like you who want to work as narrative change agents in ways that will sustain them and our planet

Our offer to you . . .

As a result of attending this retreat, you will:
  • Release old stories, cross important thresholds and make overdue choices
  • Share meals and build relationships with people on the same journey
  • Receive 60 days of structured support to sustain your breakthrough
  • Earn 12 ICF Core Competency CCEU’s
  • Get David to sign your book — Click here to order it: http://amzn.to/2ioo4MJ
  • Join the growing community as we launch in more cities in 2018.
Space is limited to 20 registrants per location.

We are keeping the groups small so you will get what you need to discover what is next for you.

Picture

COMING UP IN 2018

WASHINGTON DC
AMSTERDAM
SEATTLE
MIAMI
BOSTON
JUNE 8-10
SEPTEMBER 28-30
OCTOBER 12 - 14
NOVEMBER 2-4
NOVEMBER 9-11

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
This retreat was beyond my expectations. The safe and loving container David provides for transformation is unlike anything I've experienced. His ability to hold space for participants is AMAZING! The narrative process is enlightening and empowering. I gained clarity of purpose and a new, more meaningful, direction for my work!

-workshop facilitator

/
Company

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Sign up on our mailing list to get all the latest news!

In case you are still thinking. . .

True transformation only occurs when we invest the time in rites of passages such as this retreat. You deserve it . . . You'll be able to cross thresholds that you cannot do on our own and will find immediate support on the other side from a wonderful community.

If you back away from your threshold, it is all too easy to just drift along . . . months and even years pass by . . . the stories keep repeating themselves . . . and you're stuck on the same treadmill wondering what happened.   Instead, step toward your future and join us!

/

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
​This experience was transformative and inspiring in deeply, meaningful ways. The narrative coaching movement has huge potential for global impact at a time when the planet cries out for a new human story.

-community innovator

- a community innovator
/
Company

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5


Your life is meant to be lived, not hacked.

For Practitioners

Coaching & Mentoring
Retreats
FAQ

For Organizations

Consulting & Training
Our Clients
Free Consultation

About

Dr. David Drake
What is Narrative Coaching
​Resources
CNC Press

Connect

Newstory Subscription
​
Contact Us
Picture

Privacy | Copyright | Credits

Privacy Statement

Copyright & Use

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Credits

Site design & web marketing:
Picture
Website by Sandy Lurins
BACK TO TOP

Center for NARRATIVE COACHING + DESIGN