Storying: Towards an Interpretive Framework

Abstract

To ask a young person about their future is not just to inquire about some isolated goals, but to seek directions into the world in which they live. Where there is a relationship of trust, a listener may be given a tour of a whole universe of meaning. In 1995, after three years of being around the town, I started to ask young people: ‘What do you want to do with your life?’. The young people responded with abundant and varied stories about past, present, future and me.