This paper deals with the self-growth and
education through storytelling from the perspective of narratology. According to
brain/mind sciences, story is a basic principle of mind. Most of our experience,
our knowledge, and our thinking is organized as stories. We interpret every
level of our experience by means of storytelling. Although cognitive science is
associated with mechanical technologies like robots and computer instruments
that seem unliterary, the central issues for cognitive science are in fact the
issues of the narrative mind. we organize information in story form. It is how
we understand the world around us, and communicate each other. The personality
formation and mental development are closely linked with narratives. Narratives
are useful to self-growth. From the perspective of narratology, there is a
concrete narrative level as text and three abstract narrative levels such as
story, narration, and textuality. This paper, therefore, shows how narratives
play a role for self-growth, and how the main components of the narrative levels
can be used effectively for that. The contents of this pater are follows: 1) The
Utility of Narratives for Self-Growth and Education in Terms of cognitive
Narratology. 2) Theory of Narrative Layers in Narratology. 3) Narrative's
Abstract Layers and Self-Growing through Storytelling. 4) two exemplary
narratives for self-growth through storytelling: self-growth through
storytelling in Arabian Nights, and self-growth through storytelling in focusing
discourse layer of narrative. The king Shahrayar in Arabian Nights can make an
alternative story with a self-growing power after listening to the tales
Scheherazade tells. it is a self-growth and character education for him through
strorytelling focusing on story layer. On the other hand, Annie in the Michael
Gabriel’s storytelling residency narrative has experienced a self-growth through
restorytelling her traumatic stories. it is her self-growth and character
education through strorytelling focusing on discourse layer of narrative. The
therapeutic application of the humanities and the storytelling means a reframing
clients' thoughts and feelings. In this sense, it is necessary for the
self-growing through storytelling that we reorganize -in accordance with needs
people are searching- the components of storytelling such as character, motive,
time, space and so on.

<Key Words>

Self-Growth(자기 성장), Education(교육), Storytelling(스토리텔링), Narratology(서사학),
Narrative Layers(서사 층위)