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Example: Little Red Riding Hood
In short, our working storytelling method is based on the simple narrative of the hero’s journey. It consists out of five elements that take the following order:
Situation A: Little Red Riding Hood is safe at home with her mother.
• The beginning (Situation A) • The call/trigger • The helpers and the help • The opponents and the setbacks • The arrival (Situation B)
The call: One day Little Red Riding Hood is asked to bring cookies to her ill grandmother by her mother, but is warned to stay on the path. The opponent: A beautiful forest flower next to the path and the big bad wolf. The helper: The Hunter with his gun/axe. Situation B: Little Red Riding Hood back at home, having learned to always obey her mother and stay on the path to stay out of danger. The key concept in the hero’s journey is transformation. Every (good) story is about change, internal and external. It is important, when creating a story, or telling a memorie, to look for change. This can be done by asking questions such as: what have I learned from the event in the memory? What insight have I gained and how has this affected me?
Imaginative telling When someone tells a story, they has to take care that he or she uses a lot of images. We always say: it
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