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 | Mar 27, 2014 | restorylab, Uncategorized |
Catherine Hartley and Chris Lee were in Edinburgh to give the final RSE Scottish Health Humanities Seminar yesterday. Their presentation, Austerity Detox, was exactly what I needed, a quietly subversive mix of sharp social analysis, visual art and theatre, laced with...
by Alette | Jan 24, 2014 | (re)storying society, restorylab, storyreading |
On Monday, I had breakfast with a friend and colleague. She’d emailed suggesting we meet at Starbucks to plan a project we’ve been mulling over these last few months. Starbucks has made a fortune out of being everyone’s global/local coffee shop, storying itself as a...
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...
