Martin Ellrodt

Stories are the way we experience the world and we organize our biography. We are a story that is being told in life, while life is going on. Story telling is responding to a very basic need for experiencing the world and trying to make an evaluation of what is being experienced. It helps, because you compare it to other stories you have experienced.

Storytelling should be promoted as an educational tool in all contexts, where it is about soft skills like leadership, human resources, communication skills, conflict resolving skills and mediating competences. In all fields where human communication is involved, storytelling should be promoted very decidedly as an educational tool.

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