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 | Apr 27, 2015 | (re)storying society, (re)storying the personal, quotations, restorylab |
“Stories are habitations. We live in and through stories. They conjure worlds. We do not know the world other than as story world. Stories inform life. They hold us together and keep us apart.” – Miller...
by Alette | Jul 11, 2014 | (re)storying society, (re)storying the personal, restorylab, storytelling |
On the morning of July 4th, a group of 19 storytellers met at St Donat’s castle to share their work and research into using oral storytelling for healing people and communities. This colloquium was the first half of “The Well at the World’s End”, a full-day event on...
by Alette | Apr 28, 2014 | (re)storying society, (re)storying the personal, restorylab, storytelling |
The Third Space Toolkit was officially released a couple of weeks ago at a fun-filled weekend in the Old Town of Edinburgh. A gaggle of undergrad students showed up to be guinea pigs, trying out some of the activities we drew up to help them make the most of living...
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...