As often happens with blogs, I got busy with other things and this webpage has sat largely silent for too many months. During that time I went on a fabulous story journey that I meant to write about but just never managed to. With spring promised in the returning light, my thoughts have once moreContinue reading “Storybikes: Storied Ecotravel through Fife”
Tag Archives: Children
Painting Edinburgh Green With Stories
Transition Edinburgh hosted its first (hopefully annual) fair of environmentally-friendly options for re-localizing life in Scotland’s capital. As I have argued (probably ad nauseum) when it comes to environmentally-friendly ways to entertain and inform people (especially the younger ones) storytelling is probably as low-carbon as it gets (though I have to own up to theContinue reading “Painting Edinburgh Green With Stories”
Storytelling and Adventure Therapy
I spent much of last week attending the Fifth International Adventure Therapy Conference. Not surprisingly, narratives and storytelling have found their way into this field. Paul Stolz (Evolve at Typo Station) and Cathryn Carpenter (Deakin University), both in Australia, spoke about their use of narrative therapy approaches to working with young people “in the bush”. Continue reading “Storytelling and Adventure Therapy”
Restorying the Earth 