One’s own narrative

What

It is certainly not about the naive claim that once we understand another person's story, euphemistically called narrative, the potential for conflict is banished. Rather, it is about the ability to reflect on the urge to construct an individual success story. There are two reasons for this: Fear of harm and desire for gratification. Two very powerful drives. We have to succeed to be satisfied, which we take as a proof of being saved from harm. You may say that this sounds too simple, but once you relate the drives to the individual conditions, it becomes quite complex.

The ability to reflect on why we so urgently seek satisfaction is where the actual narrative begins. So the narrative is first of all directed at ourselves. A kind of narrative that allows us to find our own desires and fears in those of the other, that my narrative can become a thread woven into the texture of togetherness. On a political level; this is where democracy is grounded.

Why

As long as we do not reflect (a term that needs to be examined in its tension between intellect and immediacy), we are pressed under the obligation of infinite success, that is, the story of an intellectually and physically optimized existence that cannot actually be fulfilled.

Under pressure to tell an ongoing success story, we remain in a perverted relationship with ourselves that neither allows us to reflect who we really are nor to find a living relationship in togetherness. Democracy then becomes nothing more than a promise of optimization that hollows itself out and collapses.

To prevent this, we need a narrative about ourselves that includes everything that makes us a living and mortal being. Politics has the educational mission to promote precisely these narratives to the best of its ability.

How

Each narrative begins with an active engagement with the world around us and the ability to "design" our individual way of being out of the given coordinates. To do this, we need to define as clearly as possible what we want to achieve, why we want it, and how we plan to make it happen.

In order to be able to formulate one's own narrative in terms of what, why and how, we offer respective courses for children and courses for young adults that use different methods of Disegno to find, develop and act according to one's own narrative.

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