Stories of Transformation project was based on two pillars: conflict transformation and storytelling as its tool. The initiative started by observing how youth work is very often involved in conflict handling: youngsters seeking support for their inner or interpersonal conflicts, disagreements and organizational impasses for which youth-workers themselves might lack competences and tools… Realizing that many organizations in our networks were sharing this perception and identifying similar needs, we felt called to share our expertise through the creation of this project. WHAT WE WORKED WITH Conflict Transformation We see conflicts as a natural part of interactions: a sign that diversity, change, growth are present and asking for space. Often we are poorly educated on how to use them in our favour, so that our relationships and opportunities can grow. We connect them instead to uncomfortable emotions, which brings us to fear and avoid them or act aggressively. We worked with inner and interpersonal conflicts. We aimed at acknowledging the energy that lies in them, in the emotions and needs that they involve, and use it constructively, to take next steps and find agreements that work for all. Storytelling Stories are ancient carriers of wisdom: they are used in every culture to teach without preaching, to open perspectives without forcing, to create connections without pressure, to suggest possible evolutions instead of unilateral solutions. As such, they are a precious tool for conflict transformation: they are a playful, empathetic, non threatening way to face conflicts involving all the senses, and bringing a holistic view and different perspectives. They even connect rational and emotional areas of our brains, helping to harmonize these aspects that often contribute to disconnection in conflicts. OBJECTIVES The youth-workers and trainers that participated in SOT: -discovered the approach of storytelling and how to use it in conflict transformation; -gained ways to communicate in conflicts in order to create connection, mutual understanding and effective agreements; -developped competences to handle conflicts, to be used with -and transferred to- their target groups; -acquired different methods to work using storytelling as a tool in youth-work, conflict management and intercultural contexts. So we aimed at: -equipping 30 youth workers with specific competences (knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors) to address conflict situations with or within their organizations and target groups using storytelling; -offering each youth worker the chance to develop personal skills in line with their own personality, to be able to concretely apply conflict transformation methods in their youth-work and organization; -spreading these methods in all partner organizations and on a bigger scale, through implementation workshops organized by participants; -evaluating the project and its impact through questionnaires.