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It’s Andrew Rixon’s fault. Not “fault” in the sense of fault, but rather that Andrew was the catalyst. He started it.

By “it” I mean this collection of stories. We were talking by telephone, in the initial planning phase of a webinar on tools for change. Andrew said that we could put together a booklet of relevant stories.

Andrew is like that. He has good intuitions that seem to come from nowhere. They tend to be unexpected, and off on a bit of a tangent. You’d think they would have the potential to provoke a reaction of “Where on earth did that come from!”. And indeed, occasionally they do.

Mostly, though, the reaction they trigger is: “That’s a great idea”. And that’s what happened this time.

Of course, before the booklet and its catalysis by Andrew, there were the stories. I’ve been collecting them for some time. Before that was the motivation to collect the stories. And before that was the discovery of the virtues of story as intervention and story for diagnosis.

That’s where I’ll begin — the story of how I discovered story and its virtues.