Category Archives: Storytelling and Change

Because so many great storytelling sites and blogs exist out there, with new ones emerging all the time, I don’t usually write full blog entries about any single site or blog but rather group them together and/or list them on one of my inside pages. But I’m singling out the … Continue reading →

One of the best pieces I’ve read about how stories heal is by Allison Cox, who not only describes several ways storytelling heals, but also guides practitioners in telling healing stories and lists books about therapeutic storytelling. Here’s a choice snippet from Cox’s article: During storytelling, listeners let go of … Continue reading →

I’m reading — via audiobook — a terrific book, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan, about the biggest wildfire in US history, which in 1910 consumed 3 million acres in eastern Washington, Idaho, and Montana, destroying five towns and killing at least … Continue reading →

… and is our current Storyteller-in-Chief even telling stories? Political and communications analysts have written recently about President Obama’s storytelling — or lack thereof — both in his State of the Union speech and in the first year of his presidency. Some, like Jason Snyder, said that the State of … Continue reading →

The world’s eyes have been opened over the last two weeks, not only to a tragedy of unspeakable proportions, but to a nation that has been suffering long before this natural disaster befell it. Tonight, eyes will continue to focus on helping the Haitian people as major television networks broadcast … Continue reading →

Barbara Burke self-published her novel, The Napkin, the Melon & the Monkey, in 2006 and found it to be so successful that Hay House bought the rights to publish it in 2008. The Hay House version releases Feb. 1. I enjoy “collecting” business novels — works of fiction that teach … Continue reading →

You can tell that a particular way of doing things is catching on when a practitioner carves a niche out of teaching others how to do it. Lisa Bloom has recently begun to teach coaches how to use storytelling in coaching. In her newsletter, Kachanga, in an article that also … Continue reading →

Guest entry by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team. We’re continuing a tradition at The Health Care Blog started last year. Asking you to take a moment this weekend to discuss your desires for how to live the end of your life as meaningfully as possible — If … Continue reading →

When I give publicity to a contest in this space, I feel I should follow up and reveal the winner. A few weeks ago, I posted about the Obama administration’s healthcare video contest, noting that some entries among the top 20 finalists were more storied than others. On the continuum … Continue reading →