by Alette | Apr 12, 2016 | (re)storying nature, (re)storying the personal, quotations, storyreading, storywriting |
Okay, so William James, the 19th century philosopher and psychologist, never actually wrote about science communication, but bear with me. In working on a chapter for a collection of papers on loneliness, I came across an essay by William James on blindness, which...
by Alette | Nov 24, 2013 | (re)storying nature, (re)storying the personal, restorylab |
The very first blog I kept was called “The Slow Knitter”. It was 2006, I’d learned to knit a couple of years before and I got hooked on all the crafting blogs popping up like wildflowers on the internet, especially the ones with free patterns. The “Slow” in the title...
by Alette | Jul 15, 2012 | (re)storying nature, restorylab, storytelling |
Just got home from an afternoon of storytelling at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, with the lovely and talented Claire Druett. We told stories about trees and conservation to a bunch of clued-in under-eights and their parents. After the session, a dad came up to...
by Alette | Jan 15, 2010 | (re)storying nature, (re)storying the sacred, restorylab |
The Autumn/Winter issue of Reforesting Scotland’s magazine (of the same name) focussed on the Transition movement in Scotland. The article “Deep into soul soil” written by Transition Edinburgh member Jude Dunn discusses the importance of addressing...
by Alette | Sep 18, 2009 | (re)storying nature, restorylab |
I spent much of last week attending the Fifth International Adventure Therapy Conference. Not surprisingly, narratives and storytelling have found their way into this field. Paul Stolz (Evolve at Typo Station) and Cathryn Carpenter (Deakin University), both in...
