Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.
Tom Peters
We would like to share with you our experiences, findings and results from this project and our work with storytelling in adult education. Here you will find a growing collection of materials on the topic, which are freely available for you to use and adapt in the spirit of Open Educational Resources.
Methodological Framework
… serves as the basis for the StoryComp concept, which aims to provide self-directed training opportunities for adult educators in storytelling as a creative method for promoting competence acquisition among adult learners in basic education and civic education. It is both the scientific foundation of our approach and the starting point for the development of the online course as well as the workshop concept.
Here you can download the Methodological Framework as pdf: STORYCOMP_Methodological Framework
Collection of Stories


A small collection in the collection are our Christmas stories. Enjoy them!

Workshop Guidelines
… are a practice-oriented, modular and thus directly and flexibly applicable guide with the aim of motivating and guiding adult educators to train, deepen and improve their storytelling skills together with colleagues in workshops. Here available for download as pdf: StoryCom Workshop Guidelines
The first part introduces the approach, peer learning and gives examples for planning and implementing your own workshops. The second part contains thematically ordered ready-to-use activity sheets for direct implementation. For more go to Workshops.
Video Tutorials
… are intended to support the Workshop Guidelines. The tutorials will provide insights into how to develop and improve one’s own skills and abilities in storytelling together. Take a look!
Learning Scenarios
… provide examples of how storytelling can be used for a specific purpose in basic or civic education with adult learners. In this compilation, there are a total of 14 learning scenarios that are also included as a module in the StoryComp online course.
The Story of StoryComp
… is the final product of the narrative evaluation, written by the project partners. Or to put it another way: It is a look behind the scenes and right into the development process of StoryComp – written piece by piece during the project.
Here for download as pdf: Story of StoryComp
Interesting materials
- Stories as the key to the target group? Thoughts on the potential of storytelling in relation to learning motivation in adult education – EPALE article by Katrin Echtermeyer & Christian Soyk, available in several languages.
- Storytelling to improve adult education – EPALE article by Soha El Jammal & Jaap van Lakerveld, available in several languages.
- Storytelling as a method in basic education and civic education: Online Course for Adult Educators Available – EPALE article by Soha El Jammal & Katrin Echtermeyer , available in several languages.
- Storytelling as a method in basic education and civic education: A guideline on how to organize a storytelling workshop with adult educators – EPALE article by Soha El Jammal, available in several languages.
- Storytelling as a method: an online course for adult education. – Blog article by Dörte Stahl, a German expert and trainer for media education and digital competences in adult education on “Erwachsenenbildung & Digitales” (Adult Education & Digital)
- StoryComp YouTube Channel e.g. with told stories in different languages
