The Frameworks
Proprietary methodologies by Ebi Lewis for decoding Not Enough Syndrome® and building narrative intelligence that transforms individuals and organisations from the inside out.
The Foundation
Not Enough Syndrome®
The universal condition expressing through narratives of inadequacy.
It’s the repeating loop of thoughts, reactions, and behaviours expressing as self-doubt, overthinking, perfectionism, and feelings of inadequacy.
Not Enough Syndrome® manifests at the individual level (as archetypal patterns) and at the organisational level (as narrative architecture).
Not Enough Syndrome is not a flaw. It’s coded brilliance – a survival intelligence that helps us navigate life.
Individual Frameworks
Not Enough Archetypes®
The archetype is your coded pattern, brilliance at rest. It is the neutral, structural intelligence that shapes how you think, respond, and move through the world.
Each archetype runs on a triadic code: the neutral pattern, the shadow (survival brilliance in overdrive), and the gift (the anchoring expression that restores balance).
Not Enough Archetypes® reveal how coded brilliance manifests as recognisable patterns like The Perfectionist, The Overthinker, The People Pleaser.
Shadow
The shadow is your coded brilliance in survival mode. It is the same intelligence, instantly oriented toward protection, safety, and identity preservation.
It’s fast, adaptive, and strategic. When it runs for too long, it becomes exhausting.The shadow is not a flaw. It is brilliance doing its job under pressure.
Gift
The gift is your coded brilliance expressed without urgency. It’s the same intelligence, present with clarity, choice, and agency. This is not a better version of you. It is the same brilliance, no longer overact
Signal
A Signal marks the moment a pattern becomes active. It is the internal recognition that a familiar intelligence has come online. Signals do not require fixing or action. They indicate awareness.
Loop
A loop is brilliance held in a repeated survival pattern. It is what happens when intelligence continues performing a protective role long after the original condition has passed.
Loops persist through familiarity.
Story
A story is the meaning structure that sustains the loop. It is the narrative context that gives the intelligence its job. Stories are adaptive meaning structures.
Coded Stories Method®
Coded Stories Method® is a proprietary methodology for working with narrative patterns that shape behaviour, identity, and performance.
It engages directly with the intelligence beneath personal and organisational stories, rather than attempting to reframe or rewrite the stories themselves.
The method supports narrative liberation from Not Enough Syndrome® and the conditions that sustain it.
Unstoried®
The liberated state beyond the narrative loop.
Becoming Unstoried® means stepping out of constraining stories altogether, not rewriting them, but achieving narrative liberation.
You cannot be free from a story if you are still in it.
Unstoried® is both the outcome and the practice.
A way of living and leading, liberated from the confinement of stories that do not support you or your organisation.
Organisational Frameworks
Narrative Architecture®
Narrative Architecture® is the structural design of the stories we live, lead, and work from.
It describes how beliefs, experiences, emotions, and environments interlock to form the invisible framework shaping behaviour, communication, and culture.
Every person, team, and organisation operates within a narrative architecture.
It is the blueprint of meaning that determines how success, failure, belonging, and value are interpreted.
Narrative Architecture™ reflects the structure currently organising perception and response.
When that structure is dominated by Not Enough Syndrome® narratives, clarity narrows and confidence drains.
When decoded and realigned, it becomes the structure through which coded brilliance and authentic authority can move freely.
This is the foundation of transformation, changing not just what we think, but the architecture that thought lives in.
Narrative Intelligence™
Narrative Intelligence™ is the capacity to recognise and work with the stories that shape behaviour, identity, and culture.
It is the ability to sense when a story is active and to distinguish between the structure of the story and the intelligence beneath it.
Narrative Intelligence™ recognises that the story is not the person, team, or organisation.
The story is the structure. The intelligence beneath is what endures.
Where emotional intelligence focuses on managing emotional states, Narrative Intelligence™ reveals the narrative conditions creating those states.
It allows individuals, leaders, and organisations to detect hidden story patterns, cultural constraints, and inherited meaning structures that shape behaviour.
Narrative Intelligence™ operates across individuals, teams, and systems, revealing how stories organise themselves into narrative architecture.
The Philosophy
Coded Brilliance™
Coded Brilliance™ is the integrated intelligence within your archetype. It includes the neutral pattern, the shadow pattern, and the gift.
Each part reflects how you think, respond, protect yourself, and express your brilliance.
Brilliance is the whole pattern – shadow, neutral, and gift. It is all the intelligence within your archetype, expressed across different states depending on whether you’re inside a loop or outside it.
Brilliance is constant. Only its job changes. Brilliance never disappears. It only changes its intention in a given moment.
