Hi, I am Aneta, I am polish, I studied political sciences, I work in the field of international cooperation for peace and I am a storyteller.

I tell stories and tales from different cultures and languages. I use various symbols to touch different topics. But no matter where we come from, we all reach the same conclusion in the end. We realize that we are all humans and we are here for the same reason: to be happy, to love, to cultivate the land, to live well, to have fun and to dream.

When my daughter was very young she asked me not to read her stories but to tell them to her instead. I was scared at the beginning, but I found it very easy to invent stories for her. Then I learnt that this was a great tool for integration between children, youths and adults. And this is how I became a storyteller.

Now I tell stories in libraries, museums, schools, kindergartens and theatres . To big audiences, in small events, for children, grownups and elders.

Hi, I’m Carin from E-motive program. I’ve been told you work with storytelling in the field of education. Would you like to visit us in Holland to talk about taking your project to an international level? we think that you in Poland can learn from the global South.

Wow… of course!

We choose Mexico because there is a rich living oral tradition. The role of shaman storyteller that cures with stories still exists insome Mexican communities, they do a lot of sex education for gender equality, and tell stories to preserve the languages that are about to die.

I tell stories to make them more accesible to people through simple and fun techniques

Why do we tell stories? What do we want to achieve by telling them?

We will invite storytellers from Poland and Mexico to participate and create multiple exchanges in both countries.

Daniel focuses on storytelling tradition combined with clown techniques, music and play, creating a powerful combination of serious issues with playful techniques.

Marconio from DF specializes in stories for sustainable development and preservation of languages that are about to extinguish.

Janet's stories, told with the pure beauty of words and metaphors, take listeners to the world of imagination, traditional wisdom and individual reflection.

Gala from Puebla is dedicated to promoting reading: telling stories and working with parents, teachers and children in order to inspire them to read more books.

A group of 15 professional storytellers from across Poland came every month to the workshops. There were also teachers willing to learn storytelling as a working tool with children, and children from 3 to 12 who came with their school or their parents.

While some people just complain, others just keep building and fighting to achieve things.

Wow, the cooperation is working beyond the limits of language and money.

We learnt how to create spaces for storytelling in communities, how to cooperate with the institutions, how to bring storytelling into the education programs and how to use stories as a tool to face tough issues.

E-motive is very rich in terms of ideas and is very open to innovative solutions. It will help you think globally and find solutions where you didn’t expect to find them.

The E-motive programs are something completely unique, but there is clear evidence that they really work in terms of impact. Help us take cooperation to the next level.