The ethical principles of narrative work
· Everyone has a story
·
Every
story makes sense in its context
·
No one
has the full story
·
We
hold the narrative rights to tell our own story over someone else
telling it for us
·
We are
part of one another’s stories. You are part of my story and I am
part of yours. We live story-entwined lives.
·
No one
is ever in one story
·
No one
story can ever capture or do justice to the fullness of life as
lived
·
No
story is innocent. Stories have effects for which we are accountable
as tellers and audience
·
Any
story that ‘stories-over’ or ‘stories-out’ the people the story is
most likely to effect, is narratively speaking, unethical. The voice
of the person most effected, whose interests are most at stake,
needs to be in the story of the decision.
·
We
have to claim and win narrative authority over our lives from those
who assume they know our story or who have the power to impose it on
us.
The narrative ethical position is always, “I must be able to tell
the story in front the people most likely to be effected by it.”
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