Storytelling for Nature Connection

Author: Alida Gersie; Anthony Nanson; Edward Sch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912480593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
This unique resource offers new ideas, stories, creative activities, and methods for people working in conservation, outdoor learning, environmental education, youthwork, business training, sustainability, health, social and economic change. It shows how to encourage pro-environmental behavior in diverse participants: from organization consultants and employees, to families, youth and schoolchildren. The stories and their exploration engage people with nature in profound ways. The book describes how this engagement enhances participants' emotional literacy and resilience, builds community, raises awareness of inter-species communication and helps people to create a sustainable future together. Its innovative techniques establish connections between place and sustainability. Facilitators can adapt all of this to their own situation.

Storytelling and Ecology

Author: Anthony Nanson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350114944
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
'Finalist' in the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & Linguistics Awarded Honors at the Storytelling World Awards 2022 Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination of how a diverse ecosystem of oral stories and the dynamics of storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of powerful vested interests. Detailed analysis of traditional, true-life and fictional stories shows how spoken narrative language can imbue landscapes, creatures and experiences with enchantment and mediate between the inner world of consciousness and outer world of ecology and community. A pioneering ecolinguistic and ecocritical study of oral storytelling in the modern world, Storytelling and Ecology offers insight into the ways that sharing stories in each other's embodied presence can open up spaces for transformation in our relationships with the ecological world around us.

Natural Storyteller

Author: Georgiana Keable
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
ISBN: 1912480239
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
Georgiana Keable introduces us to a staggering wealth of world stories all about nature and our role as humans in it. These are traditional stories that have stood the test of time. They often speak of something universal or enduring about our experience and relationship with nature. Culturally diverse and all told with great energy and panache, the stories will engage young readers and encourage them to become natural storytellers. The book includes several storymaps to help the reader think visually about stories as well as other ways to remember the different stages that make up each tale. The author also reflects on the heart of each tale, what it's about, and whether there is a way the reader can turn their own experience into a story. Each section has a practical activity that can be undertaken individually or as a group. The author's message is clear: the resources needed for Natural Storytelling are abundantly around us - nature and our imagination.

The Book of Nature Connection

Author: Jacob Rodenburg
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550927655
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Unplug from technology and "plug in" to nature through the wonder of your senses. The Book of Nature Connection is packed with fun activities for using all our senses to engage with nature in a deep and nourishing way. From "extenda-ears" and acorn whistles to bird calls, camouflage games, and scent scavenger hunts, enjoy over 70 diverse, engaging, sensory activities for all ages that promote mindfulness and nature connection. With activities grouped by the main senses – hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste – plus sensory walks and group games, The Book of Nature Connection is both a powerful learning tool kit and the cure for sensory anesthesia brought on by screen time and lives lived indoors. Whisper in birds, be dazzled by nature's kaleidoscope of colors, taste the freshness of each season, learn to savor the scented world of evergreens, hug a tree and feel the bark against your cheek. Spending time in nature with all senses tuned and primed helps us feel like we belong to the natural world – and in belonging, we come to feel more connected, nourished, and alive. Ideal for educators, camp and youth leaders, caregivers and parents, and anyone looking to reconnect and become a nature sommelier! AWARDS GOLD | 2023 Nautilus Book Awards | Special Honors: Educational Guidebooks SILVER | 2023 IPPY Awards: Nature SILVER | 35th IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards: Nature & Environment

I Love My World

Author: Chris Holland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956156648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
I love my world is a playful hands-on nature connection guidebook for parents, forest school leaders, teachers, play workers and outdoor educators of all kinds - and just the book you need on days out with family and friends. It's a forest school guidebook with great ideas for camping, playing in the park and doing stuff with family and friends. Learn creation myths and activities to do with them, how to light fires, make survival dens from sticks and leaves, awaken your senses, read tracks, identify plants, use a knife and bushcraft tools safely, navigate without aids, sneak like a ninja, make natural land art, develop your curiosity and instincts, cook foraged food and chocolate bananas on an open fire... and more, including how to lead successful outdoor learning sessions based on natural cycles and patterns! It is full of: stories and tales to awaken curiosity, games to awaken the senses, bushcraft, survival skills, environmental art, nature connection and outdoor play activities mentoring tips and listening skills beautiful images and music making ideas reflections on life's learning journey inspiring nature connection quotes huge sections of further inspiration and references It's been written for anyone who shares a love of our world who spends time outdoors, wants to deepen their connection to nature, and their own creativity, and enjoys sharing it with other people. It's a prefect book to take with you when you go camping, on an outdoor adventure or a holiday in nature - because it's packed with holistic learning ideas that fire up curiosity, creativity and a care taking spirit. I wrote it to help people, especially parents and their children, step into a closer, heartfelt and regenerative relationship with their environment, and to develop a caring attitude, hope for the next generations of human and non human beings. It was my first gift to help make the world a better place, which has been followed by more! Both online and offline story-led and musical nature connection resources available at www.natureconnection.co.uk

Eleven Nature Tales

Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834581
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Provides a collection of nature tales and folktales from all over the world, in an anthology designed to inspire young readers to appreciate nature and work toward saving the planet. Reprint.

The Nature Connection

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Contemporary Storytelling Performance

Author: Stephe Harrop
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100092341X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Mara Menzies, Clare Murphy, Debs Newbold, Rachel Rose Reid, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, and Vanessa Woolf, while Sally Pomme Clayton’s reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis, this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices, values, aspirations, and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice, taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience, while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new, inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in drama, theatre, performance, creative writing, education, and media.

Growing Up with a Soul Full of Nature

Author: Tim Corcoran
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457501562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
This book tells the incredible story of a boy growing into a man with Nature as his life's foundation and teacher. This book will inspire the reader to bring Nature back to our children as a foundation in their lives. As we move into the future and the attack on Nature continues from humankind, children being raised today will need a deep connection to the natural world in order to help heal nature, plus find stability and inspiration for their own lives. After all, Nature is an amazing teacher and constant friend; it just takes knowing how to listen and communicate to the Earth, and the teachings come flooding in. As Tim Corcoran always says-"Get out in the woods. It's the best place to be." This book is a must read for parents and children alike. It will change your life. Tim Corcoran's Irish heritage, as taught to him by his uncle and grandfather, has linked him deeply to Earth people's philosophy of life. He first went to the woods at age six. He knew then that it was his home. At seventeen he spent four months alone in the Canadian Wilderness practicing Earth living skills. Tim began a career teaching wildlife conservation in 1974. During this time he learned how to communicate with the spirits of the animals he worked with, enhancing his abilities to connect on an intimate level with them. He has an extensive background in working with wildlife. He has worked at the Alberta Game Farm in Alberta, Canada as an animal caretaker, the Crandon Park Zoo in Miami Florida as an animal relocation director, and Marine World Africa U.S.A. as a chimp and elephant trainer. Tim co-founded the Native Animal Rescue in Santa Cruz, California, rescuing and releasing injured wildlife. He also took that opportunity to speak at schools to educate hundreds of children on wildlife conservation.

World Tales for Family Storytelling

Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
ISBN: 1912480689
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Stories from oral traditions from a variety of historical, cultural and world sources, with story sources and resources for families.