A Compendium of Short Stories that Inspire, Coach, Teach and Motivate Spurring Personal Growth

By Rajesh Seshadri

Metaphorical thinking is fundamental to cognition, communication and our ‘narrative mind’. This makes it a valuable tool for helping friends, family, colleagues and clients gain new perspectives on their lives. Using a metaphor is a helpful way of talking about emotional and relational experience.

The mind has the capacity to understand new ideas by relating them to concepts it is familiar with. Using metaphor has been a tradition in all the major schools of therapy and is a particularly helpful way of talking about emotional and relational experience.

I often rely on stories in coaching, training, workshops and therapy and have found it immensely invaluable. This is due to the fact that the “listener” does not respond to the story as an “opinion” or “advice” from me. Neither does the image he has of me as a person / individual filter the content or create a barrier in the way his mind would digest and assimilate the narrative.

So often, I can feel the energy shift in the room as people take in the impact of what a simple poignant story can express. No amount of lectures, power points or vision and mission statements can so pithily and impressively convey what a story can.

Whether you acknowledge it or not, each little story in this book will leave an imprint on your mind, as it has done on mine. I can honestly and gratefully attribute several learnings in my life span to stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rajesh Seshadri
• Release date: Aug 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311709974

Rajesh Seshadri

In addition to being a seasoned corporate professional who has risen from the grassroots to C-suite levels in a career spanning almost three decades, Rajesh Seshadri continues to don multiple hats – that of an author, leadership coach, life coach, mentor and trainer. He has been and is a CXO and a director on the board of several multinational organizations. He is a Fellow Member of the ICAI – FCMA in addition to having a dual PGD in Finance & Human Resource Management. His enthusiasm to help people unearth and unleash their potential, grow and develop led him to learn various psychological tools including clinical hypnotherapy, Advanced NLP, Gestalt and Silva Ultra. He is a certified Leadership Coach and certified Life Coach and a member of various bodies and associations, including the APA, AAH, ISTD, AIMA and BMA. He is also the founder/creator of Nirmiti Nidra, evolved after a period of intermittent practice and experimentation with various techniques to help every human being access his subconscious mind and reach the meditative or hypnotic state effortlessly. Nirmiti Nidra is unparalleled in its approach, simplicity and effectiveness, has been imparted to over a thousand people through workshops. The program is often conducted free for schools and institutions. The author has often relied on stories in coaching, training, and therapy and has found it immensely invaluable, even to the extent of using metaphor in corporate meetings and discussions. This is primarily due to the fact that the ‘listener’ does not respond to the story as an ‘opinion’ or ‘advice’. A staunch believer in life-long learning, he lives with his spouse and son in Mumbai.