The story telling approach to narrative career counselling has its theoretical foundation in the Systems Theory Framework (STF) of career development. The STF is a systems map of a wide, but not exhaustive, range of dynamic and recursively interacting influences on career development that is readily applied in research and practice. The story telling approach to narrative career counselling is a holistic, systems-based, narrative approach that takes an individual in context and culture perspective. As a systems based approach, story telling takes account of diversity, complexity, intersectionality, and the dynamic nature of career development. Story telling is presented as two separate words to denote the content and process of this narrative approach to career counselling. Systems thinking is essential to the story telling approach and systems maps may be used to facilitate systems thinking and story telling. Although not essential to the story telling approach, the STF can be personalized and individuals can draw their own map of influences which can then be used as a basis for story telling. The story telling approach is non-directive and career counsellors guide the story telling approach by using deep listening, counselling microskills, and story crafting questions; essentially, career counsellors enter the lifespace of clients and become an influence in their systems of influence. This presentation first overviews the theoretical foundation of the story telling approach to narrative career counselling, the STF, systems thinking and systems mapping, and subsequently describes the approach. The core practice dimensions of the story telling approach, connectedness, reflection, meaning making, learning and agency are outlined and examples of how they manifest in practice are provided as well as examples of story crafting questions. Future directions of the story telling approach are considered.