Storytelling For a Greener World

Alida Gersie

Sujets

• Environment
• Education

Informations

• Publié par: Hawthorn Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781907359767
• Langue: English

Extrait

“At the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh a growing belief in the power of storytelling to communicate on environmental matters has led to us scouring the world for sources of inspiration. This book has come along as an answer to our prayers and makes us feel part of something big and profoundly important to life.”
Ian Edwards, Head of Exhibitions & Events, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
“I believe this resource will demonstrate the importance of storytelling to the unconverted, and provide resources and sustenance to those who are already using storytelling in their work. I commend the project unreservedly.”
Dr Tom Shakespeare, academic and broadcaster, former member of the Arts Council of England
“The human and environmental crisis of our times is not one of reason or technology. On those fronts everything is with us. Our burning need is to recover a sense of meaning, to call back the soul, to recover love in all its meanings. This book is an guide to such reconnection with the imagination and these writers are the alchemists of our times.”
Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul
“… this book brings much excitement. We swim in an ocean of stories and once we recognise this, we see they are all exerting influences – direct and indirect upon our behaviour as individuals and as members of societies. Storytelling for a Greener World is a much needed exploration of how stories and the intentional work of storytellers can effect change.”
Ben Haggarty, Honorary Professor of Storytelling, Berlin University of the Arts
“I have worked with hundreds of post-graduate adult students using story and narrative leadership for sustainability. I know from experience just how important narrative approaches are for them in their ongoing work as organizational change agents … I hope to be able to use the book with my students as soon as possible.”
Dr Chris Seeley, Co-Director Ashridge Masters in Sustainability and Responsibility
“In these times of difficult transition this book is a source of light in the hands of those who wish to inspire the imagination of our living futures.”
Mary-Jayne Rust, author, Jungian analyst, ecopsychologist
“There is a great and previously unfilled need for a book of this kind, which will be of interest and usefulness to many people engaged, in different ways, in conservation, environmental education, business training, sustainability and social and economic change.”
Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, Director, Business Innovation and Education at WWF International
“Story has an extraordinary power to bring people together, to build common bonds across ages and cultures and to connect people with their roots. A book like this that supports us, adults and children alike, will be a massive benefit to help us all prepare for an uncertain future.”
Professor Perry Else, Course Leader, BA (Hons) Children and Play Work, Sheffield Hallam University
“Worldwide, the renaissance of traditional storytelling is moving our hearts, spirits and bodies back into closer connection with the natural world. I cannot imagine a more important, distinctive and appropriate purpose than Storytelling for a Greener World .”
Donald Smith, Director, The Scottish Storytelling Centre
“I have worked from as far east as Japan and as far west as California, as far north as the Arctic circle and south to Cape Town, and the one thing that joins all these places is the hunger for story. Sustainability is the key to the survival of this planet. Make the journey, seek the change.”
Jeremy Hastings, Wildwood Wisdom
“This book will act as a much needed tool … for people in the teaching and caring professions.”
Rose James, Property Administrator, Bodnant Garden, The National Trust
“This timely book is an important contribution to this emerging field. From my experience in setting up new programmes in universities in the U.K. and Europe, I anticipate that there will also be great interest in this publication outside the U.K. I love the Introduction. It sounds real. Real and necessary.”
Michael Barham, Director of the Adamson Centre for Professional Practice, University of Roehampton
“I am fortunate enough to know many of the contributors to this book and have listened to them telling stories both in informal and semi-formal settings. They are some of the great storytellers of our age, and hence some of the greatest communicators. I am grateful that they have taken the time to put some of their wisdom and inspiration down in print.
Max Norris, MA Professional Partnerships, Manager Lindley Educational Trust
“There are great strengths and impressive learning amongst these pages. There is significant education and entertainment too – for what is a storyteller if that individual cannot put you into fear and danger and raise you above it with a smile. This book is worth your time and worthy of a great deal of consideration.”
Del Reid, The Society for Storytelling, Coordinator for National Storytelling Week
“The importance of engaging with emotion in creating sustainability and change is vital. In my opinion, storytelling is one essential component of this process and I therefore whole heartedly support this book.”
Dr Susan Greenwood, University of Sussex
“‘Story’ is a proven and powerful mode of bringing about change. The broader applicability of the use of storytelling is of wide interest to a range of educators and artists alike.”
Dr Ross Prior, Associate Professor and Principal Editor, Journal of Applied Arts and Health
“This book has a very strong authorship from leading storytellers who have additional proven track records in other areas such as the environment, conservation and sustainability… I will certainly recommend it to all my own students.”
Dr Sue Jennings, anthropologist, trainer and prolific author of books on play and drama
“I promote sustainability in developing contexts and even in the aftermath of humanitarian disasters. This book is invaluable for my line of work. There is no other book like it out there today.”
Dominic Hunt, Disaster Risk Reduction Adviser
“This book is immensely valuable because it can help people develop the story-making, story-giving, empathic and facilitation skills to inspire pro-environmental change.”
Arran Stibbe, Reader in Ecological Linguistics, University of Gloucestershire
“With so much public attention on the issue of a sustainable planet, and such a universal love of storytelling, I feel this book will be eminently popular.”
Robert J. Landy, PhD, Professor of Educational Theatre and Applied Psychology, NYU, USA
“This book promises to give teachers and others a rare opportunity to meet many of their educational mandates in one resource.”
Raney Bench, Curator of Education, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
“This unique book contains a rich diversity of storylines that might be used in classrooms or adult workshops to develop relevant contemporary themes and thus embed sustainable living as modern day common sense by engaging with people at levels that scientific presentations simply cannot reach. It fills a significant hole in conservation literature.”
Michael Shackleton, Professor of Social Anthropology, Osaka Gakuin University and senior consultant, Religions and Conservation
“This book is a great example of a joined-up approach to change.”
Malcolm Learmonth, Arts and Environments Development Lead, Devon Partnership NHS Trust
“Science is important, but only the stories we weave together will create the common purpose and energy to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century. For that reason this book is more than just a valuable contribution. It describes an essential framework of the Ark that we need to build.”
Angus Jenkinson, The Centre for Integrated Marketing and Stepping Stones Consultancy
“Given the excitement of the debate about the environment and ecology today, this book opens up new areas of interest and brings new people into the conversation about our global future. The important aspect of storytelling makes the book of interest to a very wide readership, including students … As a professor of psychiatry and a leader in the creative arts therapies field internationally, I know that … it will be on my bookshelf!”
Dr David Johnson, Yale University, New Haven, USA
“Anyone interested in combating the world-wide destruction of our environment should read Storytelling for a Greener World . Not only does it contain effective stories, essays, and activities for young and old to address problems of pollution, climate change, and endangered bio-diversity, it also promotes sustainable attitudes and behavior that will enable readers to be pro-active in making our world more humane. Above all this book combines theory with practice that will inspire readers to create their own pro-environmental programs.”
Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, Founder of Neighborhood Bridges
“ Storytelling for a Greener World will be a powerful tool for change when placed in the hands of those who are at the front line of environmental education and campaigning.”
Rebecca Laughton, author of Surviving and Thriving on the Land and organic market gardener
“Climate change is arguably the greatest threat facing society in the immediate future and storytellers, like other artists, are increasingly turning their attention to the issue of promoting more sustainable ways of living. This book is important, not least because it brings together scholars and practitioners in the field to reflect on their work at this critical juncture. It will be a welcome and significant addition to the literature on the role of storytelling in an increasingly fragile world. Perhaps more importantly, it is an articulate and collective call to action.”
Professor Mike Wilson, Falmouth University
“A book such as this is extremely useful to environmental professionals and educationalists who often struggle to find relevant resources.”
Liz Cardin