Narrative Guidance

From story to direction.

  • Explore your story. Align with what’s next.
    Narrative Guidance offers individuals a reflective space to explore the personal stories, emotional patterns, and belief systems that shape how they make sense of change. Grounded in psychology, mindfulness and somatic experiencing, this work supports greater clarity and direction, helping people design a future that feels intentional, meaningful, and rooted in self-authorship.

  • Surface culture. Shape collective direction.
    Narrative Guidance helps organizations uncover the cultural narratives, values, and assumptions that influence how people lead, collaborate, and make decisions. By integrating narrative awareness with futures studies, it enables teams to build shared vision, align strategy with purpose, and navigate uncertainty with coherence and long-term integrity.

Life, work, and relationships don’t have to follow someone else’s script.

Higher Narrative draws from sociology, social psychology, mindfulness, somatic practices, business insights, systems thinking, and engineering to support meaningful and lasting change. This multidisciplinary foundation creates space for clarity, alignment, and deeper integration between present choices and future direction.

Whether you’re navigating personal growth or leading a team through complexity, the process begins where you are and evolves with intention.

FAQs

  • Narrative Guidance is not therapy, it’s a mentoring process that blends storytelling, somatics, and body-mind awareness to help you reconnect with your internal guidance system. While therapy often focuses on healing from the past, this work centers around realignment, meaning-making, and conscious creation in the present. It’s experiential, integrative, and designed for those ready to engage with their story in a more embodied, empowered way.

  • Absolutely. This work complements traditional talk therapy by involving the body, energetic systems, and conscious life design. If you're already in therapy, this process can deepen your self-understanding and support integration at a somatic and narrative level. Think of it as a bridge between insight and embodiment.

  • Narrative Guidance for organizations is adapted to your context, whether you're addressing team dynamics, cultural shifts, leadership alignment, or values integration. It blends individual reflection with group dialogue to surface the hidden narratives shaping your work.


  • Increased clarity around team culture, more aligned leadership decisions, improved communication, and a shared language for navigating change with purpose and integrity.

  • It's a hybrid approach, rooted in mentoring and reflective guidance. Unlike traditional coaching or workshops, this work focuses on deeper awareness and meaning-making, supporting both mindset and behavioral change.

  • Yes. Every engagement is customized based on your organizational context, whether you're a creative studio, startup, nonprofit, or leadership circle navigating change.

  • I’m Aslı, a narrative guide and founder of Higher Narrative. With a background in engineering and sociology, I’m also trained in mindfulness, yoga, and somatic practices.

    My approach brings together the tools that have supported me (and people I work with) in navigating change, finding clarity and creating from deeper alignment.