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Georgiana Keable introduces us to a staggering wealth of world stories all about nature and our role as humans in it. These are traditional stories that have stood the test of time. They often speak of something universal or enduring about our experience and relationship with nature. Culturally diverse and all told with great energy and panache, the stories will engage young readers and encourage them to become natural storytellers.The book includes several storymaps to help the reader think visually about stories as well as other ways to remember the different stages that make up each tale. The author also reflects on the heart of each tale, what it’s about, and whether there is a way the reader can turn their own experience into a story. Each section has a practical activity that can be undertaken individually or as a group.The author’s message is clear: the resources needed for Natural Storytelling are abundantly around us – nature and our imagination.

Working with imaginative journeys and the mystery and magic of metaphor, the author has developed the art of therapeutic storytelling for children's challenging behaviour.

Learn how to tell stories for entertainment, teaching, coaching, healing or making meaning. It contains a wealth of stories, exercises, questions, tips and insights to guide your storytelling path, offering time-tested and trusted ways to improve your skills, overcome blocks and become a confident and inspirational storyteller.

Telling stories awakens wonder and creates special occasions with children, whether it is bedtime, around the fire or on rainy days. Encouraging you to spin golden tales, Nancy Mellon shows how you can become a confident storyteller and enrich your family with the power of story.

Each story in this collection begins with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation and, through the use of metaphor and an imaginative story journey, leads to a more desirable resolution. In this way, the stories also have the potential for nurturing positive values.The stories cover many kinds of universal behaviour. Following the alphabet from A to Z, the behaviour is identified in the story title e.g. anxious, bossy, cranky … greedy … jealous … lazy … swearing … uncooperative ... and more. The stories can be told directly, or adapted. They can be turned into home-made picture books and puppet shows, or used as springboards for the creation of new tales for particular behaviour challenges and situations.

In this step by step companion guide, Nancy Mellon explores the secrets of what makes a good story and how to become a confident storyteller from scratch. The healing power of stories is a strong antidote to today’s electronic screen world. Storytelling is an engaging, meaningful way of sharing our thoughts and feelings.   As a path of self-development, storytelling awakens   archetypal experiences, symbols and forces within for healing oneself and others

Over 90 healing stories for telling during difficult times, written and collated by acclaimed therapeutic storyteller Susan Perrow, including 30 contributions from different cultures and countries worldwide. The book covers issues of grief, bereavement, separation and loss. Chapters include: Loss of a Loved One; Loss of Place; Loss of Family Connection; Loss of a Pet; Loss of Health and Well-being; Other Kinds of Loss; Environmental Grief and Loss; Cycles of Life and Change; plus Patterns and Templates for Extension Activities (provided for some of the stories).The stories in this book are deeply tender, consoling gifts for children and adults who are wounded by overwhelming loss. They matter. A lot.  Alida Gersie Ph.D. author of Storymaking in Bereavement. Dragons Fight in the Meadow.Grief is inevitable for everyone. Experiencing some kind of bereavement is something that none of us can avoid. So why are we so afraid to talk about it? This hopeful and uplifting book helps children and families make meaning after loss. It offers a grief ‘toolkit’ for sharing stories about a subject so often shrouded in silence and discomfort. Jane Harris, The Good Grief Project

Here is a toolkit for families and teachers, jam-packed with stunning stories from our more-than-human nature.Here you will discover, (if you didn’t already know) that you are a storyteller. As you tell, your children will open their big beautiful eyes and stare at you in wonder. But they won’t see you; they will be looking through you to a world of magic and mountains connecting them with nature. The intention of this book is for you to grow into a living loving storymother or storyfather. How can we strengthen ourselves and our new ones, our innocent ones – for our future and theirs? Stories have always been here to guide us. The genuine fairytales restory our nature, confirm us as part of a breathing, living universe. This book is full of simple tools to open the gift of storytelling, stories of kinship to wolf cub, clean water and strawberries. Tales to reclaim our forests, our heritage of myth and wonder. Fairytales, Families and Forests encourages parents and teachers of young children to tell stories in their family or pre-school. There is a chapter for each year of the child’s life, including age specific stories, verses, games and how to use them, from birth up until age 7. Each year will include ideas for celebrating the seasons, for participation, for harnessing rhythm and rhyme, puppets and crafts. A generous number of stories and verses will be offered for each year in the child’s life as examples. References will be made to research on the effect on children of technology vs. storytelling. The ethical content of traditional tales, and the expression of different temperaments will be baked into the material.

This unique resource offers new ideas, stories, creative activities and methods for people working in conservation, outdoor learning, environmental education, youthwork, business training, sustainability, health, social and economic change. It shows how to encourage pro-environmental behaviour with diverse participants: from organisation consultants and employees, to families, youth and children. The stories and their exploration engage people with nature in profound ways. The book describes how this engagement enhances participants’ emotional literacy and resilience, builds community, raises awareness of inter-species communication and helps people to create a sustainable future together. Its innovative techniques establish connections between place and sustainability. Facilitators can adapt all of this to their own situation.

The tale of a family brought together through the power of storytelling. When Darinka and Adam unexpectedly meet Dorothy, at first by an old windmill, they embark on a roller coaster journey that transforms their family through the power of spontaneous storytelling. Dorothy’s seven storytelling secrets are the magical tools they need to connect deeply with each other in daily life - from playing to shopping, enjoying mealtimes and bedtimes, from tidying up to resolving conflict. There are fifteen simple, fun games to help you easily make up stories with your children. These games, tips and tricks will give you the confidence to tell spontaneous tales with your family and friends - any time, any season and anywhere.