Inspiration

Balanced Stories focuses on guiding individuals, teams and organizations in discovering and utilizing their own stories. The premise is that stories not only give meaning to experiences, but can also provide direction and strength in personal and professional development.Let’s us insprire you with some stories of our own.

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Dealing with Setbacks

... with the Narrative Approach! Meaning: let your archetypes work with you, instead of against you. If you are doing well, your work and/or your life often runs smoothly. But in difficult times, when you experience all kinds of setbacks, without knowing or realizing it the shadowside of your archetypes…
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The Mountain is Calling

The Archetypal Mountain is living in all of us. It invites you to stand firm, to persevere and reach the top. But it also invites you to turn inward and mine your inner treasures, those diamonds that have been created under pressure. When you are connected to your inner Mountain, you are on the road…
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Bad Apples are of Gold

"It is always the same people who are anchored in changes within the organization.... Maybe it's time to remove these bad apples from the team...". The manager opposite me demonstratively places his elbows on the table and folds his hands under him. He looks straight at me. Searching for a confirmation…
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Let’s feed AI through Love and Trust…

…and not through Fear and Distrust… We’re standing at a crossroad in the history of human beings. For the first time, the technology is ready. Ready not just to make us faster, richer, or smarter. But ready to support us to become one. That technology is called AI and it is conquering the world…
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Ode to your Inner Child

About the archetype that is closest to you, but that you also ignore most often... How nice it would be if we all connected a little more with our Inner Child. Because in it lies the pure essence of who we deeply Are. Unfortunately, people don't always Act and Behave accordingly. Just look at the…
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Fog…. the most underrated part of Nature

If someone says, "It's a bit foggy in my life," this doesn't mean much good. He or she doesn't know exactly which way to go or what to do next. This person searches for directions, not knowing where to go next. Aimlessness, uncertainty, confusion... these are all words that belong to this archetypal…
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Yes! We are in chaos…

About masculinity and femininity There is a lot of chaos in the world right now. Entire continents are out of balance. Countries, governments, local authorities, families.... You can't open a news site, newspaper or social media without hearing about wars, quarrels and excesses. We seem all in chaos.....…
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Sense (of) Your Inner Storm

  When you say: “It is storming inside me.” You have a lot on your mind and probably you have feelings of not being in control, impatience, anxiety or even anger. How to deal with this? In this blog I show you how to deal with it in an archetypal way. Because what you actually say in this…
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How to Connect to your Inner Wisdom?

We all have a lot of inner wisdom we most of the time ignore or neglect. Inner wisdom that creates the possibility to make different more sustainable decisions both for ourselves and for the community around us. For me working with archetypes is a way to connect to my inner wisdom. There are all kinds…
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Crossing the Threshold

And meet your inner guardian archetype December is a month in which we are standing on a threshold. The threshold of the ‘old’ year passed and the new year coming. Some of us are busy ending things at work, just before the Christmas holidays. Some of us take their time to reflect on what happened…
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Treasures on the thresholds of life….

Insights you can get while standing on the thresholds of your life... In fictional stories thresholds are often a sign that a magical moment is coming, a turning point in the journey the hero is taking. I am sure you can also mention several turning points in your life. Moments when you stood on a crossroad…
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Be aware of your Family Stories!!

How stories do their jobs to unite or divide families and still teach us the most important life lessons. When you are with your family talking about whatever, the news or auntie C, are you knowingly aware of the most common family stories that influence what you say or think? Or when something…
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An European Story

How Bulgaria gave me a great gift Last Sunday I returned home after ten days in Bulgaria… When I left for this beautiful European country for the joint staff training of the European Project 'Sentyr', I had in mind to post every day something. But when I was there somehow I couldn’t…. Too much…
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Let your Shadow Side Work For you

How to use your less useful qualities positively. To be quite frankly I have a very annoying characteristic: My inner Saboteur is constantly active. Both in my day-to-day life as a mom, wife and friend, but also in my work as a self-employed Narrative Coach and Narrative Consultant. All day long,…
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Doing business in Disruptive times

How archetypes (can) support you in your entrepreneurship A lot of entrepreneurs all over the world are having hard times. Appointments with (potential) customers have been cancelled, orders have been withdrawn. The Corona pandemic is a fact for quite some time now and although in some countries…
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