by Elisa Pearmain. “We are looking for a storyteller,” the acting principal informed me on the phone. “The school is going through a big transition. We are a thirty-year-old alternative public school that has just lost its only principal of 29 years to retirement. We are also being forced to move to a new building […]
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by Lorraine Calbow. Teaching for over 20 years, I’ve learned to trust in the power of story. I have observed first hand that metaphor invokes and is indeed the language of the soul. Story, an elongated metaphor, allows indirect learning to occur because each person gets to decide what is relevant and meaningful. Indirect learning
by Mary K. Clark Where does the power lie in a story? Does the story have the power? What or who has the power when it comes to story? I will confess, I believe story has no power, people do. Many disagree with me and I’ve been known to be wrong! In any case, everyone
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Told by Joyce Geary Click to listen joycegeary I heard parts of the “Lady Who Wore Red” all my life. My mother and three of her brothers wrote their “memoirs” each focusing on different life events written in different styles. After reading the four memoirs, I asked if they all lived in the same family!
Business2Community.com, August 21, 2013 Summary: Relying on numbers at the expense of human judgment and experience, no matter how reassuringly extensive the latter, can lead to poor decision making that has far-reaching consequences (see our recent post on the limitations of “big data”). This was underlined by the Berwick Report on patient safety in the
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By Gaye Sutton ©1998. Moana Huaana was gorgeous, and when we were in Year Eight, at the old Porirua School on the edge of the mudflats where the City now stands, gorgeous was beginning to matter in a new way. Moana had a dark cloud of wavy hair, flashing eyes, and skin like Manuka honey.
by Allison Cox ©1997. A few years ago, I traveled with my two teenage daughters to Montana where we had once lived. We were so busy visiting old friends that it wasn’t till we were on our way out of town to go back home that we finally drove over to see our old house
By Gail Rosen © 2013. It had been a year since my father died. It was a rough year. He’d been sick for a long, long time and I found myself grieving not only his death, but all the years in which our relationship was limited and shaped by his illness. I found myself talking
Twin Cities Daily Planet (Minneapolis, MN) , August 15, 2013 Summary: This fall, there will be a series of informal storytelling sessions happening in Seward based around themes such as cooking, gardening, and identity. The sessions, organized by the Seward Neighborhood Group and the Twin Cities Media Alliance in partnership with Common Bond and Spokes
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by Mary K. Clark How can journey metaphors be used to assist child refuges? Zimbabwean psychologist and narrative therapist, Ncazelo Nucbe-Mlilo shares the Narratives in the suitcase project. Story, play and creativity are used to help children connect with their stories and dreams for the future. The project also helps others see and understand a
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