In Another Life
You’re more than your current job title.
You’re all the working lives you’ve ever lived.
Explore · Bring Forward · Reimagine
Across a working life, we gather far more than roles and responsibilities.
Places. People. Ways of thinking. Things we became unexpectedly good at. Work that absorbed us. Interests that kept resurfacing. Moments when we felt energised, purposeful, inventive or completely in flow.
Some of it travels easily into what we do now. Some gets left behind — or simply slips out of view.
In Another Life is a creative narrative workshop for looking again at that rich store of experience: making fresh connections across your working lives and noticing what you want to bring alive in your next working steps.
Not to go backwards. Not to invent a different you.
To see more of what you already have — and bring it alive.
The workshop experience
A different way into your working story
Who am I now, in this space?
It can be hard to answer when the current job title has become the dominant version of the story.
In Another Life approaches the question as an excavation. Not digging deep for the sake of it, but uncovering what is already there: experiences, capabilities, interests, energies and ways of being that may have become buried, disconnected or simply forgotten.
Through photographs, objects, conversation and short bursts of writing, participants move across the working lives they’ve lived rather than following a neat career chronology.
The aim is not to find one answer to who you are. It is to have more of yourself available for the work you do now and the working steps you take next.
Prompts
Prompts
Tap or click a card to turn it over.
Outcomes
What you leave with
A richer view of the experience you already carry.
A clearer sense of what gives you energy and meaning at work.
Strengths, interests and resources you may have stopped noticing.
Fresh connections across the different working lives you’ve lived.
More of yourself available in the work you do now.
A sense of what you want to bring alive in your next working steps.
Working together
What it’s like to work with me
Nicky, you are brilliant. You bring the best out of people - your gentle manner helps people to open up and share. Well-organised. Great visual aids.
Nicky was brilliant in leading the group. Very calm and clear about getting the group to interact with each other and give their input.
You are a fantastic facilitator and coach. Fantastic delivery, approach, time keeping, subject and keeping us together and focused.
Our team's coaching circle is a real door opener into deeper thinking, reflections and insights with practical applications to elevate my energy and impact. Guided by Nicky with amazing questions it is a great time investment in myself.
Facilitator
About Nicky
Nicky Torode is a coach, facilitator and writer whose work brings creative narrative into the world of work.
She uses photographs, objects, writing and conversation to help people see familiar stories from unexpected angles, make connections they might otherwise miss, and bring more of their experience, energy and imagination alive in the work they do.
Her approach is spacious but lively: less about producing the right answer and more about creating the conditions for something new to be seen.
The journal
In Another Life Journal — The Working Lives Edit
Make your working lives work for you.
Your working life holds more than your current job title can show.
The journal travels with you through the working lives you’ve lived — capturing the experiences, strengths, interests, moments of energy and unexpected connections that surface along the way.
Nothing needs to arrive as a finished insight. Follow what has energy. Notice what repeats. Re-see what an earlier experience might mean from where you stand now.
In Another Life Journal becomes a record of what you’ve unearthed — and what you want to bring alive in your next working steps.
Practical
Format
In person
90 minutes
Online
60 minutes
Group size
Around 15 participants
Suitable for
- leadership development
- emerging leader programmes
- team development
- career transition programmes
Community Workshops
Away from the workplace, In Another Life opens out into all the lives we’ve ever lived.
Using photographs, objects, conversation and short bursts of writing, community and creative groups explore the places, people, interests, identities and chapters that have shaped them — and the stories that still have energy now.
No writing experience is needed. There is no single story to uncover and no pressure to arrive at an answer.
