Our hopes are to share with you how we used narrative informed approaches to support clients, colleagues, and ourselves in an older adult day hospital. Using narrative practices here resulted in innovative approaches to team formulation and group level interventions being developed and piloted. An unexpected consequence was the benefits for the staff in re-connecting them with their values. Working together in these ways helped colleagues to remember ‘what the job is about’ which was sustaining in the context of the modern day NHS. Also, these practices re-connected us with our own values and opened up new possibilities for our own future practice.