ENTHINKING PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE
Transforming Your Story Filters & Unlocking Your Full Potential

Introduction: What is Enthinking?

Enthinking is the practice of stepping outside of automatic thought patterns, questioning assumptions, and engaging in deep reflection to uncover hidden biases, contradictions, and untapped possibilities. Unlike habitual storytelling or rehearsed narratives, enthinking invites individuals to pause, challenge their ‘story filters,’ and restory their perceptions. This process enhances awareness, adaptability, and creativity, enabling entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants to break free from "stuck stories" that limit potential.

Enthinking is not just about shifting mindset—it’s about transforming your internal storytelling system so that you can create aligned action and step into your full potential.

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PART 1: THE POWER OF ENTHINKING

Why Enthinking Matters for Practitioners

As a practitioner, you work with stories—your own, your clients’, your organizations’. But how many of these stories are unconsciously limiting progress? Enthinking allows you to:

✅ Identify Story Filters that distort perception and reinforce limitations
✅ Challenge outdated narrative patterns keeping you stuck
✅ Align conscious, unconscious, and higher self-awareness
✅ Activate a restorying process that creates transformation
✅ Increase emotional intelligence and intuitive decision-making

The Enthinking Framework: Moving Beyond Stuck Stories

To break free from unconscious limitations, you must move through the Seven B’s of Antenarrative Process:

  1. Beneath – Discovering hidden assumptions and limiting beliefs.
  2. Before – Identifying the pre-narrative origins of your “stuck stories.”
  3. Bets – Understanding the future trajectories shaped by these narratives.
  4. Being – Recognizing the present-moment impact of these patterns.
  5. Becoming – Seeing how your stories evolve and how to shift them.
  6. Between – Exploring the relational interplay between different storylines.
  7. Beyond – Expanding into a new, empowering story for yourself or your clients.

PART 2: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR COACHES & CONSULTANTS

How to Integrate Enthinking in Your Work

As a coach or consultant, your clients are constantly navigating hidden assumptions and unconscious biases. Your job is to help them become aware of their story filters and consciously restory their perspectives. Here’s how:

1. Start with Self-Assessment: What Story Are You Stuck In?

Before guiding others, assess your own stories. Reflect on these:

2. Facilitate Client Awareness with Powerful Questions

Instead of giving clients quick-fix solutions, guide them with enthinking-driven questions:

  1. What’s a personal story you keep telling yourself that limits your potential?
  2. What unconscious belief influences how you show up in your business?
  3. What assumptions do you make about success, money, or relationships?
  4. What past failures have shaped your current story filters?
  5. What if your struggle has a different meaning than you thought?

3. Practice Restorying: Turn ‘Stuck Stories’ into Empowering Narratives

The goal of enthinking is not just awareness but active transformation. Help clients:

PART 3: ENTHINKING FOR EXECUTIVES & LEADERS

How Leaders Can Use Enthinking to Drive Change

Executives and organizational leaders shape culture through the stories they tell. But outdated organizational narratives can block innovation and agility. Leaders can use enthinking to:

✅ Recognize corporate stuck stories (e.g., “We’ve always done it this way”)
✅ Encourage a culture of curiosity and self-awareness in leadership teams
✅ Identify biases in strategic decision-making
✅ Empower employees to contribute new narratives and solutions

Enthinking Questions for Organizations:

  1. What’s the dominant story in your company? Does it serve your future?
  2. What’s an unspoken truth about your organization that people avoid discussing?
  3. How do past failures shape the way your team makes decisions?
  4. What would be possible if your company’s story changed?

PART 4: OVERCOMING RESISTANCE & CHALLENGES

Common Blocks to Enthinking & How to Navigate Them

Resistance to change is natural. Here are the most common obstacles and how to move through them:

🚧 Fear of Change → Reframe transformation as an opportunity, not a threat.
🚧 Perfectionism → Encourage embracing process over outcome.
🚧 Cognitive Dissonance → Help clients sit with discomfort instead of avoiding it.
🚧 External Validation → Shift focus from approval-seeking to authentic self-alignment.

PART 5: NEXT STEPS & TAKING ACTION

Your Enthinking Action Plan

Now that you understand the power of enthinking, it’s time to implement it:

1️⃣ Identify one stuck story you’re ready to transform.
2️⃣ Use the Seven B’s Framework to analyze where it comes from.
3️⃣ Apply the restorying process to create a new, empowering narrative.
4️⃣ Commit to daily reflection & storytelling exercises to strengthen your new story.

Final Thought: The Future is Yours to Story

You are not bound by your past narratives. The power of Enthinking allows you to shift from unconscious limitation to intentional transformation. Whether you’re a coach, consultant, or executive, the ability to challenge, question, and restory will define your success.

🚀 Ready to dive deeper? Join the Restorying Masterclass with David Boje & Grace Ann Rosile for live coaching and transformation.
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