Geoff Mead is a storyteller, writer and consultant. He tells traditional stories, runs story-based workshops and teaches storytelling at venues in the UK and as far afield as Spain, Canada and Japan. He divides his time between his partner's house in the Cotswolds and Lyme Regis where he lives and writes in sight of the sea.

Coming Home To Story talks directly and engagingly about the way storytelling can profoundly affect someone's life from first tentative encounter to a glorious and joyful tool and metaphor for life and work. The author combines a straightforward talking from the heart with a rigorous examination of his own journey and storytelling as an art form. He gives a clear sense of how doubts, challenges, joy and adventure can be addressed and inhabited in a storied life.

• Prologue: Swimming in the Sea of Stories. Section 1: Being & Becoming a Storyteller. 1. Falling in Love with Story. 2. Joining the Company of Storytellers. 3. Master & Servant. 4. A Moment of Grace. Section 2: Healing Fictions. 5. In Bed with the Bear. 6. Stories all the Way Down. 7. Storied Lives. 8. Living Stories. 9. Telling the Untold Story. 10. Hermes in the Gorge. Section 3: Men & Storytelling. 11. We Band of Brothers. 12. Fathers & Sons. 13. Sons & Fathers. Section 4: Widening Circles. 14. Some Enchanted Evening. 15. Storytelling in Organisations. 16. Water on the Rock. Epilogue: Coming Home to Story.