I cheer for Morocco
How narratives of dominance have a very strong influence on our society, and how you’re starting to see this more and more clearly, for example in the Morocco v Netherlands match.
Which story will you choose?
People often have a choice as to which story they associate with an event or a memory. We can decide what value and what meaning we attach to it. Which story do you choose?
More isn’t always better; insights into the single story
In this article, Arjen Barel reflects on the concept of the ‘single story’; the reduction of an identity to a single narrative.
The difference
It’s a question that comes up in almost every training session or presentation: “What is the real difference between applied storytelling and therapy?”
The naked truth: Bullshit part 2
The plain truth can be woven into a narrative to make it more appealing and easier for audiences to accept, but the narrative must never obscure the truth.
Bullshit
When slick marketing types use the term storytelling only as a means to sell stuff you don’t need with bullshit stories, where is the authenticity?
The moral of the story
There’s nothing worse than ending a story with ‘the moral of this story is…’. After all, it should speak for itself. But what if there is no sense of morality left at all?
COBU – working with self-managed volunteer groups
COBU – working with self-managed volunteer groups COBU is the abbreviation for ‘COmmunity BUilding through self-managed volunteer groups’. In Dutch; building communities through self-managed volunteer groups. It is a European project in which the Storytelling Centre is working with partners in Spain, France and Hungary. In this project, we train people to develop their own […]
Creativity for Innovation
There is no beginning without an end, and after the start there is always a finish.
There are not enough proverbs to emphasise how the Creativity for Innovation project flew by. Or yes, just one more: time flies when you’re having fun (and in this case: when you are learning a lot, with some great people around!)
Getting men out of social isolation with storytelling
Many projects focus on women, but in our society there are also men in a vulnerable position. They often came here in their early years to work, lost that work in one way or another and ended up in a downward spiral. They have a loss of self-esteem, feel that they are not taken seriously and feel shame. They become a single story. We have started a project within Golden Men to let these men discover their own story and to show them that they are not just this single story, but that their personality consists of so much more.