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How To Use Metaphor Stories For Powerful Change
October 30th, 2009 by admin
If you like to help people, there is a particularly powerful method of communication called metaphor stories. These are stories that on the surface appear to be simple stories.
But below the surface, their structure models the problem that the person listening to the story is having. And by paying attention to the story, they can learn, on an unconscious level, how to solve this problem.
These go deeper than Aesop’s Fables. Those are stories that have a clear moral. The moral of the story is slow and steady wins the race, etc. Metaphor stories don’t really have a clear moral, just a beginning, conflict, and conflict resolution.
Because they communicate on a subconscious level, many times the listener will solve their own problem, and not even realize it. They may be deathly afraid of elevators, for example. Then one day they’ll find themselves relaxing in an elevator and say “whoa, how’d that happen?”
