I am storyteller, and as a consequence of this my thesis is in the form of a narrative. It tells the story of my learning and the emergence of an authentic sense of self as I have engaged with others in a creative and critical practice over a sustained period, focusing primarily on the last six years of my practice.

This narrative demonstrates how I have encouraged people to work creatively, critically and imaginatively in order to improve the way they relate and communicate in a multi-professional health care setting in order to improve both the quality of care provided and the well being of the system.

In telling the story of the unique development of my practice I will show how I have been influenced by the work of theatre practitioners such as Augusto Boal, educational theorists such as Paulo Friere and drawn on and incorporated ideas from complexity science. This original account of my emergent practice challenges the dominant management theories of life in organisations which focus on the reduction of uncertainty rather than as is explored in this thesis, developing the capacity to live creatively within uncertainty.