Clare and Steve discuss working with story and how story shows up in coaching and supervision. Story is old thinking, often the story the client has told, and continues to tell, themselves. What we are seeking to do is create new thinking and mostly the story doesn't serve this well. Our podcasters explore how storytelling is fundamentally human, but how as supervisees we might become entangled in our client’s story, or entangle our own story with that of our client. They discuss how we can use the idea of story without seeking to widen our own understanding or be nosey about the client’s situation. For example, using story, books, writing, reading, listeners, characters as metaphor. Marrying story with time to create future stories; the Hero’s Journey.