Clive Holmwood is a Dramatherapist with 25 years’ experience, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Therapeutic Arts at the University of Derby, where he lectures and researches in Dramatherapy and in the areas of play and Creative Arts Health and Wellbeing. He has written extensively on Dramatherapy, Play and Education, his most recent work being the co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy with Sue Jennings in 2021.Sue Jennings is Professor of Play, a lifetime award from the European Federation of Dramatherapy, and Distinguished Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has pioneered Dramatherapy and Neuro-Dramatic-Play for many years both in the UK and overseas and has written over 50 books on Group Work, Trauma and Play and Dramatherapy.Sharon Jacksties is a qualified Dramatherapist and psychiatric nurse with a career as a mental health practitioner in hospitals and social services settings. A professional storyteller for 30 years, her practice includes performance, applied and community storytelling. She is FEST's (Federation of European Storytelling Organisations) first ambassador to the UK, has a teaching practice here and abroad, and has written 3 collections of traditional stories published by The History Press.

"The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling illustrates the potential of stories to heal and transform, having helped humans for thousands of years to make meaning, endure difficulty and face the unknown. Stretching across countries and cultures, valued storytellers, therapists, artists and academics get together to document the power of stories. The book comprises of compelling accounts tracing stories’ development in history, their impact on human brain and emotionality and their diverse use in various clinical, health, educational and social contexts around the globe. It also addresses the challenges and the opportunities humankind is facing now, looking at how stories can support and shape our collective response to Covid 19." - Elena Boukouvala, Dramatherapist, Psychologist, Performance Activist, Founder of Play Perform Learn Grow (PPLG) Conference, Dramatherapy Faculty Epineio Institute (Greece), Faculty East Side Institute (USA) and PhD Sociology Researcher Open University (UK)."This guidebook is invaluable for therapeutic workers everywhere. Crammed with creative courage, it provides a treasure map to rugged byways of inspirational empathy and dynamic healing wisdom." - Nancy Mellon taught storytelling as a healing art worldwide for many years. Her books are translated into several languages. See www.healingstory.com. "This collection of international voices weave together anthropology, ethnography, personal and cultural histories, traditional stories, neuroscience and clinical theory and practice. They speak the language of story, creating a narrative of the therapeutic use of story from varied perspective, as if from a cast of favourite and new characters ranging from the academic to the clinician to the storyteller. The handbook is an invaluable resource for experienced therapists, students and anyone interested in the field." - Roulla Demetriou is a dramatherapist, supervisor and a Lecturer on the MA Dramatherapy at Anglia Ruskin University. Former editor of BADth’s Journal, Dramatherapy.

• ForewordPaul Animbom NgongIntroductionClive Holmwood Part 1 Covid 19 A storied Response Introduction to Part 11 Making a Story out of a Crisis: A Response to Covid-19: A Dramatic PerspectiveClive Holmwood2 The stories of Siddhartha and Captain Tom: lifetimes apart but connecting us together Drew Bird3 Doorways to the Deathlands – The Imaginal Seeing of StoryMary Smail4 Storytelling for Disability in Covid-19Aurora Piaggesi, Giulia Bini, Silvia Carpi, Barbara Parrini and Stefania Bargagna5 Don't let corona become our only storyArjen BarelPart 2 Stories & Therapeutic TextsIntroduction to Part 26 Through the Fairy Door ... to the Land of Stories: a journey through your imaginationSue Jennings7 Through the looking glass: six pitfalls in story-workAlida Gersie8 Structuring The Therapist’s Role: An Exploration Of Sophocles’ Play King Oedipus Marina Jenkyns9 Oral Storytelling is not dead: she's just gone to slip into something more comfortable...Steve Stickley10 Shakespeare unbarr’dRowan Mckenzie11 Healing through the MahabharataKavita Arora and Raghu Ananthanarayanan12 We're going on a Bear Hunt: Neuro-dramatic Play, Multi-Sensory Informed, Storytelling Approaches to Working with Children Under Five. Clive Holmwood13 Myth – Drama- Narrative- PerformanceStelios Krasanakis14 Creativity and Power in Sicilian Spirit: The Stories of Giufa, The Wise and The Fool.Salvo PitruzzellaPart 3 Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Educational, Social and Community ContextsIntroduction to Part 315 The Use of Storytelling as a Pedagogic Tool in the English Language Classroom Sarah Telfer16 Callers and Hearers: Song, Orality, Orature and Aurality in African theatre performanceVincent Meyburgh, Ntombi Mkhasibe and Joce Engelbrecht17 Beyond the Happy Ever Afters: how stories in a local English theatre can impact on their audiencesRichard Vergette18 The Cypriot storySeniha Naşit Gürçağ19 A Personal Journey to The Clever Mountain GirlLenka Fisherová, Ilona Labuťová20 Changing the world through stories of change: the work of OpenStoryTellers 2004-2019Nicola Grove, Alice Parsley, Clemma Lewis and Robin Meader21 From Isolation to Integration and Advocacy: Healing and Empowerment through StorytellingLani Peterson22 Seeking a common ground: Storytelling and Social HealingInger Lise Oelrich23 'Janare’ and ‘caporabballi’: The magic and splendour of Irpinia through stories of witches, dance leaders and sacred pigs.Josephine F Discepolo Ahmadi24 Adapting Oral Tales for the Moral Transformation of the Developing Child and Youths: Adapting Yomandene and the Stubborn Son from Tale to PlayVictor Jong TakuPart 4 - Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Health and Therapy ContextsIntroduction to Part 425 The Body Politic: An account of a therapeutic storytelling practice with torture survivors and their familiesSharon Jacksties26 I believe in unicorns …Silviana Bonadei 27 Clay Stories, Crafting Spirit and SoulLynne Souter-Anderson28 'Metamyth Therapy through the Arts in Museums' ©: A Personal Journey Through StoryThalia Valeta29 Stories in crisis and Traumatic situationsMooli Lahad30 The Laying on of EarsMary Louise Chown31 Storytelling and Play - How storytelling and play can be used therapeutically with people with a learning disability.Jem Dick32 A trans-cultural perspective on life story therapy with adoptive foster and kinship families, using the "Theatre of Attachment" model Joan Moore33 Fostering Storytellers: Helping Foster Carers to build attachments and enhance emotional literacy through stories and oral storytelling.Steve Killick 34 The power of storytelling for people living with dementiaAlice Liddell Allen35 Exploring the dynamics of story in dementia research: storytelling constructs that support people with dementia to share their experiences of what it means to live with dementia Alison Ward36 Zen Stories To Inspire Imagination In A Client With Vascular DementiaRavindra RanasinhaPart 5 - Stories 37 An International Story AnthologySharon Jacksties 38 Everything That We Can Remember: How to create a safe environment through a poetic story - an Introduction to Forest of Lost MemoriesAlenka VidrihThe Forest Of Lost Memories ©Katja GorečanAfterwordAppendix

Clive Holmwood is a Dramatherapist with 25 years’ experience, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Therapeutic Arts at the University of Derby, where he lectures and researches in Dramatherapy and in the areas of play and Creative Arts Health and Wellbeing. He has written extensively on Dramatherapy, Play and Education, his most recent work being the co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy with Sue Jennings in 2021.Sue Jennings is Professor of Play, a lifetime award from the European Federation of Dramatherapy, and Distinguished Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has pioneered Dramatherapy and Neuro-Dramatic-Play for many years both in the UK and overseas and has written over 50 books on Group Work, Trauma and Play and Dramatherapy.Sharon Jacksties is a qualified Dramatherapist and psychiatric nurse with a career as a mental health practitioner in hospitals and social services settings. A professional storyteller for 30 years, her practice includes performance, applied and community storytelling. She is FEST's (Federation of European Storytelling Organisations) first ambassador to the UK, has a teaching practice here and abroad, and has written 3 collections of traditional stories published by The History Press.

"The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling illustrates the potential of stories to heal and transform, having helped humans for thousands of years to make meaning, endure difficulty and face the unknown. Stretching across countries and cultures, valued storytellers, therapists, artists and academics get together to document the power of stories. The book comprises of compelling accounts tracing stories’ development in history, their impact on human brain and emotionality and their diverse use in various clinical, health, educational and social contexts around the globe. It also addresses the challenges and the opportunities humankind is facing now, looking at how stories can support and shape our collective response to Covid 19." - Elena Boukouvala, Dramatherapist, Psychologist, Performance Activist, Founder of Play Perform Learn Grow (PPLG) Conference, Dramatherapy Faculty Epineio Institute (Greece), Faculty East Side Institute (USA) and PhD Sociology Researcher Open University (UK)."This guidebook is invaluable for therapeutic workers everywhere. Crammed with creative courage, it provides a treasure map to rugged byways of inspirational empathy and dynamic healing wisdom." - Nancy Mellon taught storytelling as a healing art worldwide for many years. Her books are translated into several languages. See www.healingstory.com. "This collection of international voices weave together anthropology, ethnography, personal and cultural histories, traditional stories, neuroscience and clinical theory and practice. They speak the language of story, creating a narrative of the therapeutic use of story from varied perspective, as if from a cast of favourite and new characters ranging from the academic to the clinician to the storyteller. The handbook is an invaluable resource for experienced therapists, students and anyone interested in the field." - Roulla Demetriou is a dramatherapist, supervisor and a Lecturer on the MA Dramatherapy at Anglia Ruskin University. Former editor of BADth’s Journal, Dramatherapy.

• ForewordPaul Animbom NgongIntroductionClive Holmwood Part 1 Covid 19 A storied Response Introduction to Part 11 Making a Story out of a Crisis: A Response to Covid-19: A Dramatic PerspectiveClive Holmwood2 The stories of Siddhartha and Captain Tom: lifetimes apart but connecting us together Drew Bird3 Doorways to the Deathlands – The Imaginal Seeing of StoryMary Smail4 Storytelling for Disability in Covid-19Aurora Piaggesi, Giulia Bini, Silvia Carpi, Barbara Parrini and Stefania Bargagna5 Don't let corona become our only storyArjen BarelPart 2 Stories & Therapeutic TextsIntroduction to Part 26 Through the Fairy Door ... to the Land of Stories: a journey through your imaginationSue Jennings7 Through the looking glass: six pitfalls in story-workAlida Gersie8 Structuring The Therapist’s Role: An Exploration Of Sophocles’ Play King Oedipus Marina Jenkyns9 Oral Storytelling is not dead: she's just gone to slip into something more comfortable...Steve Stickley10 Shakespeare unbarr’dRowan Mckenzie11 Healing through the MahabharataKavita Arora and Raghu Ananthanarayanan12 We're going on a Bear Hunt: Neuro-dramatic Play, Multi-Sensory Informed, Storytelling Approaches to Working with Children Under Five. Clive Holmwood13 Myth – Drama- Narrative- PerformanceStelios Krasanakis14 Creativity and Power in Sicilian Spirit: The Stories of Giufa, The Wise and The Fool.Salvo PitruzzellaPart 3 Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Educational, Social and Community ContextsIntroduction to Part 315 The Use of Storytelling as a Pedagogic Tool in the English Language Classroom Sarah Telfer16 Callers and Hearers: Song, Orality, Orature and Aurality in African theatre performanceVincent Meyburgh, Ntombi Mkhasibe and Joce Engelbrecht17 Beyond the Happy Ever Afters: how stories in a local English theatre can impact on their audiencesRichard Vergette18 The Cypriot storySeniha Naşit Gürçağ19 A Personal Journey to The Clever Mountain GirlLenka Fisherová, Ilona Labuťová20 Changing the world through stories of change: the work of OpenStoryTellers 2004-2019Nicola Grove, Alice Parsley, Clemma Lewis and Robin Meader21 From Isolation to Integration and Advocacy: Healing and Empowerment through StorytellingLani Peterson22 Seeking a common ground: Storytelling and Social HealingInger Lise Oelrich23 'Janare’ and ‘caporabballi’: The magic and splendour of Irpinia through stories of witches, dance leaders and sacred pigs.Josephine F Discepolo Ahmadi24 Adapting Oral Tales for the Moral Transformation of the Developing Child and Youths: Adapting Yomandene and the Stubborn Son from Tale to PlayVictor Jong TakuPart 4 - Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Health and Therapy ContextsIntroduction to Part 425 The Body Politic: An account of a therapeutic storytelling practice with torture survivors and their familiesSharon Jacksties26 I believe in unicorns …Silviana Bonadei 27 Clay Stories, Crafting Spirit and SoulLynne Souter-Anderson28 'Metamyth Therapy through the Arts in Museums' ©: A Personal Journey Through StoryThalia Valeta29 Stories in crisis and Traumatic situationsMooli Lahad30 The Laying on of EarsMary Louise Chown31 Storytelling and Play - How storytelling and play can be used therapeutically with people with a learning disability.Jem Dick32 A trans-cultural perspective on life story therapy with adoptive foster and kinship families, using the "Theatre of Attachment" model Joan Moore33 Fostering Storytellers: Helping Foster Carers to build attachments and enhance emotional literacy through stories and oral storytelling.Steve Killick 34 The power of storytelling for people living with dementiaAlice Liddell Allen35 Exploring the dynamics of story in dementia research: storytelling constructs that support people with dementia to share their experiences of what it means to live with dementia Alison Ward36 Zen Stories To Inspire Imagination In A Client With Vascular DementiaRavindra RanasinhaPart 5 - Stories 37 An International Story AnthologySharon Jacksties 38 Everything That We Can Remember: How to create a safe environment through a poetic story - an Introduction to Forest of Lost MemoriesAlenka VidrihThe Forest Of Lost Memories ©Katja GorečanAfterwordAppendix

Clive Holmwood is a Dramatherapist with 25 years’ experience, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Therapeutic Arts at the University of Derby, where he lectures and researches in Dramatherapy and in the areas of play and Creative Arts Health and Wellbeing. He has written extensively on Dramatherapy, Play and Education, his most recent work being the co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy with Sue Jennings in 2021.Sue Jennings is Professor of Play, a lifetime award from the European Federation of Dramatherapy, and Distinguished Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has pioneered Dramatherapy and Neuro-Dramatic-Play for many years both in the UK and overseas and has written over 50 books on Group Work, Trauma and Play and Dramatherapy.Sharon Jacksties is a qualified Dramatherapist and psychiatric nurse with a career as a mental health practitioner in hospitals and social services settings. A professional storyteller for 30 years, her practice includes performance, applied and community storytelling. She is FEST's (Federation of European Storytelling Organisations) first ambassador to the UK, has a teaching practice here and abroad, and has written 3 collections of traditional stories published by The History Press.

"The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling illustrates the potential of stories to heal and transform, having helped humans for thousands of years to make meaning, endure difficulty and face the unknown. Stretching across countries and cultures, valued storytellers, therapists, artists and academics get together to document the power of stories. The book comprises of compelling accounts tracing stories’ development in history, their impact on human brain and emotionality and their diverse use in various clinical, health, educational and social contexts around the globe. It also addresses the challenges and the opportunities humankind is facing now, looking at how stories can support and shape our collective response to Covid 19." - Elena Boukouvala, Dramatherapist, Psychologist, Performance Activist, Founder of Play Perform Learn Grow (PPLG) Conference, Dramatherapy Faculty Epineio Institute (Greece), Faculty East Side Institute (USA) and PhD Sociology Researcher Open University (UK)."This guidebook is invaluable for therapeutic workers everywhere. Crammed with creative courage, it provides a treasure map to rugged byways of inspirational empathy and dynamic healing wisdom." - Nancy Mellon taught storytelling as a healing art worldwide for many years. Her books are translated into several languages. See www.healingstory.com. "This collection of international voices weave together anthropology, ethnography, personal and cultural histories, traditional stories, neuroscience and clinical theory and practice. They speak the language of story, creating a narrative of the therapeutic use of story from varied perspective, as if from a cast of favourite and new characters ranging from the academic to the clinician to the storyteller. The handbook is an invaluable resource for experienced therapists, students and anyone interested in the field." - Roulla Demetriou is a dramatherapist, supervisor and a Lecturer on the MA Dramatherapy at Anglia Ruskin University. Former editor of BADth’s Journal, Dramatherapy.

• ForewordPaul Animbom NgongIntroductionClive Holmwood Part 1 Covid 19 A storied Response Introduction to Part 11 Making a Story out of a Crisis: A Response to Covid-19: A Dramatic PerspectiveClive Holmwood2 The stories of Siddhartha and Captain Tom: lifetimes apart but connecting us together Drew Bird3 Doorways to the Deathlands – The Imaginal Seeing of StoryMary Smail4 Storytelling for Disability in Covid-19Aurora Piaggesi, Giulia Bini, Silvia Carpi, Barbara Parrini and Stefania Bargagna5 Don't let corona become our only storyArjen BarelPart 2 Stories & Therapeutic TextsIntroduction to Part 26 Through the Fairy Door ... to the Land of Stories: a journey through your imaginationSue Jennings7 Through the looking glass: six pitfalls in story-workAlida Gersie8 Structuring The Therapist’s Role: An Exploration Of Sophocles’ Play King Oedipus Marina Jenkyns9 Oral Storytelling is not dead: she's just gone to slip into something more comfortable...Steve Stickley10 Shakespeare unbarr’dRowan Mckenzie11 Healing through the MahabharataKavita Arora and Raghu Ananthanarayanan12 We're going on a Bear Hunt: Neuro-dramatic Play, Multi-Sensory Informed, Storytelling Approaches to Working with Children Under Five. Clive Holmwood13 Myth – Drama- Narrative- PerformanceStelios Krasanakis14 Creativity and Power in Sicilian Spirit: The Stories of Giufa, The Wise and The Fool.Salvo PitruzzellaPart 3 Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Educational, Social and Community ContextsIntroduction to Part 315 The Use of Storytelling as a Pedagogic Tool in the English Language Classroom Sarah Telfer16 Callers and Hearers: Song, Orality, Orature and Aurality in African theatre performanceVincent Meyburgh, Ntombi Mkhasibe and Joce Engelbrecht17 Beyond the Happy Ever Afters: how stories in a local English theatre can impact on their audiencesRichard Vergette18 The Cypriot storySeniha Naşit Gürçağ19 A Personal Journey to The Clever Mountain GirlLenka Fisherová, Ilona Labuťová20 Changing the world through stories of change: the work of OpenStoryTellers 2004-2019Nicola Grove, Alice Parsley, Clemma Lewis and Robin Meader21 From Isolation to Integration and Advocacy: Healing and Empowerment through StorytellingLani Peterson22 Seeking a common ground: Storytelling and Social HealingInger Lise Oelrich23 'Janare’ and ‘caporabballi’: The magic and splendour of Irpinia through stories of witches, dance leaders and sacred pigs.Josephine F Discepolo Ahmadi24 Adapting Oral Tales for the Moral Transformation of the Developing Child and Youths: Adapting Yomandene and the Stubborn Son from Tale to PlayVictor Jong TakuPart 4 - Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Health and Therapy ContextsIntroduction to Part 425 The Body Politic: An account of a therapeutic storytelling practice with torture survivors and their familiesSharon Jacksties26 I believe in unicorns …Silviana Bonadei 27 Clay Stories, Crafting Spirit and SoulLynne Souter-Anderson28 'Metamyth Therapy through the Arts in Museums' ©: A Personal Journey Through StoryThalia Valeta29 Stories in crisis and Traumatic situationsMooli Lahad30 The Laying on of EarsMary Louise Chown31 Storytelling and Play - How storytelling and play can be used therapeutically with people with a learning disability.Jem Dick32 A trans-cultural perspective on life story therapy with adoptive foster and kinship families, using the "Theatre of Attachment" model Joan Moore33 Fostering Storytellers: Helping Foster Carers to build attachments and enhance emotional literacy through stories and oral storytelling.Steve Killick 34 The power of storytelling for people living with dementiaAlice Liddell Allen35 Exploring the dynamics of story in dementia research: storytelling constructs that support people with dementia to share their experiences of what it means to live with dementia Alison Ward36 Zen Stories To Inspire Imagination In A Client With Vascular DementiaRavindra RanasinhaPart 5 - Stories 37 An International Story AnthologySharon Jacksties 38 Everything That We Can Remember: How to create a safe environment through a poetic story - an Introduction to Forest of Lost MemoriesAlenka VidrihThe Forest Of Lost Memories ©Katja GorečanAfterwordAppendix