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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?

Stories in policymaking
Stories in policy making Storytelling is hip and happening and its usefulness is slowly making its way into government policy-making, especially as a means of

Would you recognise the two main reasons for conflict?
Would you recognise the two main sources of conflict? We love conflict! In recent years, we learned that you can steer a conflict in a

Stage performances to connect: make taboos debatable
Stage performances to connect: make taboos debatable! It may already be known that, in addition to our social storytelling work, we also develop theatre performances
Arjen Barel
Director of the Storytelling Centre and Theatre Lab and Storytelling Coach.
deelt op deze pagina maandelijks zijn opgedane kennis.
Hij schreef eerder twee boeken:
‘The Power of Art Bouwstenen’
en
‘Storytelling en de Wereld’
en hij is bezig met zijn derde.
Hij geeft regelmatig lezingen over storytelling in de maatschappelijke sector.