ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the theme “the human soul is not meant to be understood.” However, the leader’s soul evolves through the poetics of everyday life. Using this as a theme, a metanoia experience is introduced to explain an individual’s transpersonal encounter. After the encounter, the person decides to change the way they feel and think. As the leader experiences an unpredictable event, a story begins to evolve where we begin to see significant behavioral changes in the person’s life. Thus, the story is considered to be an antenarrative because of the unpredictable outcome from the occurrence and the leader’s need to move away from the path they once predicted. This chapter will explain the experience of having a metanoia and why leaders go through this encounter. Using antenarrative theory, developed by Boje (2001), this encounter reveals a morphing process where a story begins to develop as the individual moves through this unexpected and spontaneous event.
