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?”
22 May 2026
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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.
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?
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?
Don’t let corona become our only story What impact can the corona crisis have on our mental health? Besides the relational tensions that can arise
Getting through the crisis with stories! In these absurd times it is important that we keep seeing each other. Physically we can’t, but we can
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.