Healing Storytelling: The Art of Imagination and Storytelling for Personal Growth

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. Nancy Mellon shows how to create a magical atmosphere for the telling of tales, how to use movement and direction within a story, how to set a storyscape, beginnings and endings, how to best use the rhythms of voice. Here are also the more subtle ingredients of storytelling including moods, the elements, seasons and the symbolism of magic words, objects and weapons which represent the external and archetypal forces in our world.

Author: Nancy Mellon
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Published: 12/17/2019
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781912480135
ISBN10: 1912480131
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Storytelling
- Psychology | General
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | General

About the Author
Nancy Mellon has pioneered healing, therapeutic storytelling both as a therapist and as an educator for over 35 years. She is a former Steiner/Waldorf educator, a psychotherapist specializing in healing through the arts, and the author of Storytelling with Children. Susan Perrow is the author of Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour.