There is a paradox about this ocean of information we are floating in nowadays: on the one hand, story-telling becomes more and more popular in the business world, on the other, less and less children are able to tell stories.  It’s even not about inventing new stories. Simply telling the story from a film they recently saw or a book they recently read seems impossible.

It’s as if story-telling has become an elite branch of modern advertising, yet we seem to be losing it as the most ancient and basic art of communication. For me, story-telling has a symbiotic relationship with reading – the text becomes richer and more alive when you share it with someone else.

It would be great to open a club for practising story-telling – where people, old and young, come to tell stories, to remind each other of  well-known legends and  to invent their own tales. If you know a good story, please, don’t hesitate to share it orally with someone, especially with a child! I strongly believe that, as ambitious as it sounds, every shared story contributes to the development of this delicate art that makes us human.