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Mona Keijzer knows better than anyone how to summarise the complex issues facing the Netherlands in a few simple soundbites. But behind those appealing and straightforward messages lies exactly the same strategy that ‘manosphere’ influencers use to win over their audience.
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.
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?
In this article, Arjen Barel reflects on the concept of the ‘single story’; the reduction of an identity to a single narrative.
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 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.
Arjen Barel
Director of the Storytelling Centre and Theatre Lab and Storytelling Coach
… shares his knowledge on this page.
He previously wrote, amongst others, the book:
‘Storytelling and the World’
and just finished working on:
‘Stand stronger with your own story’
He regularly lectures on storytelling in the social sector.
