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Book SynopsisStories take us into other worlds so that we may experience our own more deeply. Master storyteller Geoff Mead brings the reader inside the experience of telling and listening to a story. He shows how stories and storytelling engage our imaginations, strengthen communities and bring adventure and joy into our lives. The narrative is interspersed with consummate retellings of traditional tales from all over the world.
Trade ReviewThe power of
Coming Home to Story lies in Mead's passion and adventure, his faith in stories and storytelling as a source of creativity, healing and sustenance. -- Bristol Review of Books
If you didn't believe before that the storyteller can be both healer and magician, you could hardy not believe it after reading this book. I feel the better, and the wiser, for having read this inspiring text. -- Fact & Fiction magazine
Table of ContentsPrologue: Swimming in the Sea of Stories. Section 1: Being & Becoming a Storyteller. 1. Falling in Love with Story. 2. Joining the Company of Storytellers. 3. Master & Servant. 4. A Moment of Grace. Section 2: Healing Fictions. 5. In Bed with the Bear. 6. Stories all the Way Down. 7. Storied Lives. 8. Living Stories. 9. Telling the Untold Story. 10. Hermes in the Gorge. Section 3: Men & Storytelling. 11. We Band of Brothers. 12. Fathers & Sons. 13. Sons & Fathers. Section 4: Widening Circles. 14. Some Enchanted Evening. 15. Storytelling in Organisations. 16. Water on the Rock. Epilogue: Coming Home to Story.
