Story Telling to Weave Scenarios with Unravelled Threads

Stories can help to re-imagine alternative ways of being and living. By telling, writing and reading a story, we can enter or create a new world and imagine how we can live differently. When we engage in stories as a teller, writer or listener, we can step aside from the taken for granted world and enter a new world where we can make our dreams and visions a reality. Through exploring the scenarios, we can explore the consequences for ourselves and how our relationships with others matter quite literally. In this chapter, I examine how such an exploration can indeed be encouraged—by referring to a number of examples.