Soups&Stories Part 1, 2015 Social and dialogue based project in cooperation with Gitte Sætre, at Stiftelsen 3,14, october 2015 Soups and Stories, is a series of gatherings staged in public spaces. People from diverse groups are invited to share personal stories on pressing social issues. The project has lately developed towards public community dialogue events, sometimes with a personal story as the driving force. The Soups&Stories Project is a dialogue based art project introducing new forms of interaction and creating alternative forums for discussion about political topics, thereby gaining insights which differ from those of our media saturated society. Soups&Stories offers an approach and method to facilitate living with growing societal diversity, focusing on democracy, freedom of speech, tolerance and respect, - while eating soup together. We propose new forms of interaction and communication in today’s Europe: with its growing radicalization, where people in power actively use propaganda to create enemy images. Dialogue methods are inspired by David Bohm, Helge Svare and different tools in The Art of Participatory leadership tradition.