Book

ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling is a unique book that explores stories from an educational, community, social, health, therapeutic and therapy perspectives, acknowledging a range of diverse social and cultural views in which stories are used and written by esteemed storytellers, artists, therapists and academics from around the globe.

The book is divided into five main sections that examine different approaches and contexts for therapeutic stories and storytelling. The collected authors explore storytelling as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, in education, social and community settings, and in health and therapeutic contexts. The final section offers an International Story Anthology written by co-editor Sharon Jacksties and a final story by Katja Gorečan.

This book is of enormous importance to psychotherapists and related mental health professionals, as well as academics, storytellers, teachers, people working in special educational needs, and all those with an interest in storytelling and its applied value.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Paul Animbom Ngong

Introduction

Clive Holmwood

Part 1 Covid 19 A storied Response

Introduction to Part 1

1 Making a Story out of a Crisis: A Response to Covid-19: A Dramatic Perspective

Clive Holmwood

2 The stories of Siddhartha and Captain Tom: lifetimes apart but connecting us together

Drew Bird

3 Doorways to the Deathlands – The Imaginal Seeing of Story

Mary Smail

4 Storytelling for Disability in Covid-19

Aurora Piaggesi, Giulia Bini, Silvia Carpi, Barbara Parrini and Stefania Bargagna

5 Don't let corona become our only story

Arjen Barel

Part 2 Stories & Therapeutic Texts

Introduction to Part 2

6 Through the Fairy Door ... to the Land of Stories: a journey through your imagination

Sue Jennings

7 Through the looking glass: six pitfalls in story-work

Alida Gersie

8 Structuring The Therapist’s Role: An Exploration Of Sophocles’ Play King Oedipus

Marina Jenkyns

9 Oral Storytelling is not dead: she's just gone to slip into something more comfortable...

Steve Stickley

10 Shakespeare unbarr’d

Rowan Mckenzie

11 Healing through the Mahabharata

Kavita Arora and Raghu Ananthanarayanan

12 We're going on a Bear Hunt: Neuro-dramatic Play, Multi-Sensory Informed, Storytelling Approaches to Working with Children Under Five.

Clive Holmwood

13 Myth – Drama- Narrative- Performance

Stelios Krasanakis

14 Creativity and Power in Sicilian Spirit: The Stories of Giufa, The Wise and The Fool.

Salvo Pitruzzella

Part 3 Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Educational, Social and Community Contexts

Introduction to Part 3

15 The Use of Storytelling as a Pedagogic Tool in the English Language Classroom

Sarah Telfer

16 Callers and Hearers: Song, Orality, Orature and Aurality in African theatre performance

Vincent Meyburgh, Ntombi Mkhasibe and Joce Engelbrecht

17 Beyond the Happy Ever Afters: how stories in a local English theatre can impact on their audiences

Richard Vergette

18 The Cypriot story

Seniha Naşit Gürçağ

19 A Personal Journey to The Clever Mountain Girl

Lenka Fisherová, Ilona Labuťová

20 Changing the world through stories of change: the work of OpenStoryTellers 2004-2019

Nicola Grove, Alice Parsley, Clemma Lewis and Robin Meader

21 From Isolation to Integration and Advocacy: Healing and Empowerment through Storytelling

Lani Peterson

22 Seeking a common ground: Storytelling and Social Healing

Inger Lise Oelrich

23 'Janare’ and ‘caporabballi’: The magic and splendour of Irpinia through stories of witches, dance leaders and sacred pigs.

Josephine F Discepolo Ahmadi

24 Adapting Oral Tales for the Moral Transformation of the Developing Child and Youths: Adapting Yomandene and the Stubborn Son from Tale to Play

Victor Jong Taku

Part 4 - Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Health and Therapy Contexts

Introduction to Part 4

25 The Body Politic: An account of a therapeutic storytelling practice with torture survivors and their families

Sharon Jacksties

26 I believe in unicorns …

Silviana Bonadei

27 Clay Stories, Crafting Spirit and Soul

Lynne Souter-Anderson

Thalia Valeta

29 Stories in crisis and Traumatic situations

Mooli Lahad

30 The Laying on of Ears

Mary Louise Chown

31 Storytelling and Play - How storytelling and play can be used therapeutically with people with a learning disability.

Jem Dick

32 A trans-cultural perspective on life story therapy with adoptive foster and kinship families, using the "Theatre of Attachment" model

Joan Moore

33 Fostering Storytellers: Helping Foster Carers to build attachments and enhance emotional literacy through stories and oral storytelling.

Steve Killick

34 The power of storytelling for people living with dementia

Alice Liddell Allen

35 Exploring the dynamics of story in dementia research: storytelling constructs that support people with dementia to share their experiences of what it means to live with dementia

Alison Ward

36 Zen Stories To Inspire Imagination In A Client With Vascular Dementia

Ravindra Ranasinha

Part 5 - Stories

37 An International Story Anthology

Sharon Jacksties

38 Everything That We Can Remember: How to create a safe environment through a poetic story - an Introduction to Forest of Lost Memories

Alenka Vidrih

Katja Gorečan

Afterword

Appendix