This tool has to do with how the telling of stories expresses and transforms identity, connects people and conveys knowledge at the personal and community levels.
This is why storytelling works on different levels. When we think of whole cultures and societies, we see that they have their own stories that convey their values, important historical events and things they wish to achieve, such as freedom, or even political ideologies. At the level of community, stories carry shared trajectories about how the community emerged, what happened to it, dilemmas and difficulties as well as the ways in which people face these. As we will see, telling these stories to different audiences inside and outside the community is very important for bottom-up social development organisations. At the level of the individual, telling a story can have multiple functions of expression, reflection, healing, ‘getting things off your chest’, as it were. In this way, storytelling is an exercise in building voice, learning how to express this voice and at the same time, by telling, being able to imagine how stories can be rewritten
