What a career coach can learn from a playwright: Expressive dialogues for identity development

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Abstract

Writing expressive dialogues can be used to assist individuals in developing their career identities — that is: stories that are needed to help people position themselves in relation to the current labour market. Writing expressive dialogues entails having written conversations with various parts of us — much like a playwright does with his characters — and making developmental gains in the process. In Dialogical Self Theory (DST) terms, it means talking to and with various I- positions on the page, perhaps forming coalitions, discovering counter positions, and innovating and integrating the self (Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010, pp. 228–234). And as the playwright Miller suggests in the above quote, the creation of identity is an interactive process between self and others.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAssessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations
Pages37-53
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9783319324821
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Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan. 2016

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