Michael Williams: Healing Words in the Middle East

Storyteller Michael Williams recently returned from a tour of the Holy Land where he and eleven colleagues told stories to and facilitated workshops with mixed groups of Israelis and Palestinians.  The tour was the culmination of a School of Storytelling program called Healing Words – Storytelling as a Pathway to Peace.  In this interview, Michael Williams describes experiences that have strengthened his belief in the power of story.  He then outlines his own dreams of working with conflict in all parts of the world through storytelling in collaboration with other professions.

Allison Galbraith: Storytelling and Climate Change

Allison Galbraith is a professional storyteller from Lanark, Scotland.  In this podcast I talk to her about a workshop she recently gave at a conference on climate change hosted by Scottish Natural Heritage.  Allison shares some insights on why storytelling and other art forms are an important part of any response to climate change, gives some tips on finding resources for telling stories on environmental themes, and talks about the benefits of counting beans.   There’s a story about talking trees somewhere in there too…something for everyone.

Further information on Allison Galbraith can be found on the Directory of Scottish Storytellers.

Fiona MacLeod: Trees, Stones and Water

This is the second part of the two-part interview I did with Bretagne storyteller, Fiona MacLeod.  Here she talks about re-storying trees, stones, and water; her annual week-long storytelling in nature workshop; and some resources for environmentally-friendly tales.  She leaves us with the question of who will save water today?