ABSTRACT
The dialectic in True Storytelling is between micro and macro power addressed in ensemble leadership interventions. The specific ontology is process and relational in sociomateriality. Retrospective sense making wants a True Storytelling that is a copy of past reality. Scientific 'critical thinking' demands its 'true' storytelling be verified by experiment, fulfill logic, and be measurable. Pragmatic 'critical thinking' is a storytelling about praxis, how action based on some great idea makes a concrete difference in an 'actual life'. Enthymemes are frequent in organizational storytelling. Grounded Theory is little help because ontological context interpretation is needed for enthymeme storytelling. Soren Brier's work as a Peircian scholar who reaches out to combine insights from N. Luhmann contributes greatly to our understanding of True Storytelling. Arthur Frank's The Wounded Storyteller provides an embodiment approach to storytelling that few have applied to organization research. Embodied restorying process (ERP) is a move beyond the textual-metaphor of restorying used by M. White and D. Epston.
