Coming Home to Story
Storytelling Beyond Happily Ever After
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published:22nd Sep '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Exploring storytelling and narrative to become a better person
Coming Home to Story tells of the magic of stories and storytelling, and of their power to liberate the human spirit. Through traditional tales and his own experiences, Geoff Mead demonstrates how stories illuminate our lives.Stories take us into other worlds so that we may experience our own more deeply. Master storyteller Geoff Mead brings the reader inside the experience of telling and listening to a story. He shows how stories and storytelling engage our imaginations, strengthen communities and bring adventure and joy into our lives. The narrative is interspersed with consummate retellings of traditional tales from all over the world.
The power of Coming Home to Story lies in Mead's passion and adventure, his faith in stories and storytelling as a source of creativity, healing and sustenance. -- Bristol Review of Books
If you didn't believe before that the storyteller can be both healer and magician, you could hardy not believe it after reading this book. I feel the better, and the wiser, for having read this inspiring text. -- Fact & Fiction magazine
ISBN: 9781908363015
Dimensions: 218mm x 138mm x 17mm
Weight: 238g
224 pages