ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intersection of pivotal moments and brain activity in narrative therapy. It explores the salient functions of the “social brain” in an attempt to identify and understand factors that may contribute to the occurrence and sustainability of “aha” experiences. The chapter focuses on the reciprocal functioning of the left and right hemispheres in the co-creation of pivotal moments, the hemispheres represent only the most recent neuronal evolution. Pivotal moments, “aha” experiences, are natural phenomena that occur in the present moments of everyday life and in therapeutic conversations. The possibility that neurobiology might help to explain, and even predict, the occurrence and sustainability of “aha” experiences in collaborative therapy. Implicit learnings that arise from pivotal moments during the transitional phase can be strung together to form alternative storylines, which can be contrasted with the oppressive dominant storyline that people bring to the therapeutic process.
