“The idea of re-authoring invites the person to be the authority on his or her life, through ‘authoring’ or telling alternative narratives of who they are and what they stand for. By encouraging the person to consider both the landscape of action (what they have done) and the landscape of identity (what do these actions suggest about who the client is as a person), the conversation ‘thickens’ the new story that he person is able to tell about himself or herself.”
Rolf Sundet and John McLeod in Cooper, M. And Dryden, W. (2016). The Handbook of Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy edited by Cooper and Dryden