Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling

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 Gorecan. 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.

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: A thousand 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 isn't Dead, it's Just Gone to Slip into Something More Comfortable Steve Stickley 10 Shakespeare Un-Barr’d Rowan Mckenzie 11 Healing through the Mahabharata Kavita Arora and Raghu Ananthanarayanan 12 I’m 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’ - The use of story in Community Theatre Richard Vergette 18 A Cypriot story Seniha Nasit Gürçag 19 A Personal Journey to ‘The Clever Mountain Girl’ Lenka Fisherová, Ilona Labutová 20 Changing the world through stories of change The work of Openstorytellers 2004-2019 Nicola Grove 21 From Isolation to Integration and Advocacy: Healing and Empowerment through Storytelling Lani Peterson 22 Seeking a common ground – Storywork 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 the Oral Tale 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 Sharon Jacksties 26 I believe in Unicorns … Silviana Bonadei 27 Clay Stories, Crafting Spirit and Soul Lynne Souter-Anderson 28 Metamyth’© Therapy through the Arts in Museums - A Personal Journey Through Story 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 The Forest Of Lost Memories Katja Gorecan Afterword Appendix

Clive Holmwood is a Dramatherapist with 25 years’ experience, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Therapeutic Arts at the University of Derby, where he lectures and researches in Dramatherapy and in the areas of play and Creative Arts Health and Wellbeing. He has written extensively on Dramatherapy, Play and Education,his most recent work being the co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy with Sue Jennings in 2021. Sue Jennings is Professor of Play, a lifetime award from the European Federation of Dramatherapy, and Distinguished Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has pioneered Dramatherapy and Neuro-Dramatic-Play for many years both in the UK and overseas and has written over 50 books on Group Work, Trauma and Play and Dramatherapy. Sharon Jacksties is a qualified Dramatherapist and psychiatric nurse with a career as a mental health practitioner in hospitals and social services settings. A professional storyteller for 30 years, her practice includes performance, applied and community storytelling. She is FEST's (Federation of European Storytelling Organisations) first ambassador to the UK, has a teaching practice here and abroad, and has written 3 collections of traditional stories published by The History Press.