Project: EL PODER DE LAS HISTORIAS – THE POWER OF STORIES 2020-1-ES01-KA227-ADU-095529

The human mind evolved with stories and is shaped by them. Good storytelling can motivate people to do incredible things and is a tremendous advantage in communication. Education and learning are no exception. The world of storytelling is a vast one. It covers the entire world and everything in it, and every century in which there is a record of storytelling having taken place. There is no known culture without some form of storytelling, and the craving to know “what comes next” has been felt by every human being, regardless of age, gender, culture, or century.
Stories also can be used for educational purposes. Storytelling provides other growth opportunities, as stories help listeners to see through another’s eyes and to share the protagonist’s feelings of anger, fear, or love—all from a safe place. Perhaps best of all, stories stretch the imagination. The teller takes the listener to distant places where remarkable things happen. And once stretched, an imagination stays stretched.

Within this project we aim to use the power of stories to ignite creativity in adults and develop their resilience skills and capacity to come up with innovative solutions for different challenges.

For this, 2 Intellectual Outputs will be developed:

IO1: Research and Collection of Stories

Each partner will make a research at local level (regional, national) and collect at least 15 stories that have meaning within the project objectives. The stories will be “tested” with groups of adults at local level – testing that they do have a meaning and they trigger feelings and behaviours.

IO2: Training Course Modules

The training course aim to capacitate adult educators to use storytelling in developing adults creativity, resilience and promote the social inclusion of vulnerable groups. There will be 6 modules for this training course.

Meet our partners

August Vermeylenfonds

Vermeylenfonds vzw, The August Vermeylenfonds is a cultural association that existed since 1946. In those days, Vermeylenfonds was founded by a group of freethinkers and humanists who wanted to preserve and keep alive the writings and ideas of August Vermeylen, former and humanists who wanted to preserve and keep alive the writings and ideas of August Vermeylen, former professor, university rector and important voice in the world of Flemish literature and culture. Flemish literature and culture. Since then, August Vermeylenfonds is a non-profit organisation based in Ghent, Belgium… Read more

CONTEMPORARY PLEVEN MEDIA FOUNDATION

Contemporary Pleven Media Foundation (CPMF) was founded in Pleven in 2014. Its team consists of journalism and humanitarian educated people and volunteers. CPMF is the successor of the regional daily newspaper “Posrednik”, published from 1991 to 2015, which now, as an online medium, continues the newspaper’s mission to be a driver of public processes…Read more

EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS

The European Institute for Local Development (EILD), was founded in 2009 as an independent non-governmental organization whose members are European citizens, entities and organizations devoted on supporting regional development activities and transnational collaboration. The General Committee consists of local development stakeholders and industry leaders from various sectors and European Member States: academics, NGOs, development agents, association managers, civil servants, and social economy companies, as well as European organizations for local development… Read more

Visit our web

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This is the e-book of our project, do not stop reading it

THREE STORIES ABOUT THREE CHANGED LIVES

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In this video we can see Dr. Neli Stefanova, a specialist psychiatrist from Bulgaria, who shared with us three stories, showing how sometimes seemingly small things can really transform people, give them back hope, desire and joy to live fully. She told us three real stories about how art, how a good example and how chance meetings can change three different lives. She started with a woman’s life, then a retired man and last her neighbour.

The purpose of the “Power of Stories” project is precisely the telling of stories to develop creativity, improve self-esteem and promote the social inclusion of vulnerable groups.

Thanks to Dr. Stefanova for sharing with us these three stories!

Transnational Project Meeting in Athens – 20th/21st October 2022

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The Power of Stories team has met again and worked on the last aspects of the IO2: Training modules for adult educators.

These months we have been working on the first part of the manual, the theoretical part. It is available on the project website.

The second part of the manual, the practical part, is divided into 2 sections. The first part will include 5 modules dealing with values, with the following structure:

  • Latest sociological and psychological findings (__VALUE__)
  • Adult education in the field of (__VALUE__)
  • Adults in vulnerable situations and (__VALUE__)

The second part will deal with the analysis of the stories that partners collected for IO1 and a set of practical activities to work with adults. Our aim is to set out in this manual how the stories can be used to work with adults to improve their skills/acquire the value.

We discussed deadlines to finish the manual (it will be available in all consortium languages and in English), worked on our dissemination and impact plan and had a final wrap-up session with feedback from participants.

Thanks again for being part of this team, we keep working!

Discover in this video some of the results of our investigation

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This research is part of our IO2: Training modules for adult educators - Using stories for adult creativity and empowerment.
  • Use of storytelling as traditions in Europe (oral traditions)
  • Stories to bring us closer. Stories to know the trajectory of immigrants
  • Intergenerational conversations, critical thinking and different perspectives getting values
  • How to change the mindsets of our community through storytelling

La Moebius as a catalyst for stories

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We would like to introduce you to La Moebius, a non-profit association created to offer activities aimed at young creators. They focus on Art and Education, with the aim of covering different family and youth needs in the Albaycín neighbourhood and in the city of Granada.

At Moebius they conceive transversal, creative, participative and community-based education as a basis. Through this project and its transversal nature, they aim to strengthen the capacities of the person towards an integral development, thus promoting a more critical, participative and committed citizenship, opening up intergenerational and community dialogue.

Moebius collaborates with numerous associations, organisations, entities and people who carry out activities related to the plastic arts, dance, theatre, singing and photography among others. And it is through these activities and these collaborations that the work of Moebius is made possible, and what concerns us here, the Erasmus+ project "The Power of Stories".

This organisation has provided us with the contact and participation in the events carried out by these professionals, dedicated precisely to this. They teach through a story, through artistic expression as a tool of that transversal thread that are the values that they try to transmit and thanks to them we see how through stories it is possible to transmit these values.