<正>People create stories to make sense of their lives to themselves and others.In their self-narratives, people reflect on and transform their personal experience through the emergent meanings that they create and discover along the trajectory of the narrative.Narratives are situated and reflexive:they are tied to the perspectives and values of the selves who narrate their lives and they enact a form of reflexive or second-order consciousness that interacts with first-order consciousness of what is experienced and in this way the second level experiences the experiencing as a knowing self.Narratives are also characterised by their power to connect the heterogeneity of events experienced,activities participated in and meanings made into an overall sense of unity that gives a sense of wholeness and continuity to one’s life.