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The Healing Art of Storytelling: A Sacred Journey of Personal Discovery |  | Author: Richard Stone
Publisher: Authors Choice Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 254
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 059533833X
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780595338337
ASIN: 059533833X
Publication Date: January 5, 2005
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Over the years, television and other cultural forces have robbed us of storytelling as a tool of communicating, learning, and healing. In The Healing Art of Storytelling, professional storyteller Richard Stone describes this crisis and its devastating effects, and then offers a step-by-step guide for creating a storytelling tradition that we can use to transform our families, our friendships, and ourselves. This ancient art offers us a fresh approach to issues such as coping with death and grieving, building esteem in ourselves and our children, finding courage in the face of uncertainty, and discovering the miraculous in the everyday. With The Healing Art of Storytelling, readers will gain a deeper sense of integrity, purpose, and direction and, most importantly, see the story of their lives in a new light.
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 A View From a "Self-Help Book" Junkie April 26, 2003
Steven (Columbus, Ohio)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
From "The Healing Art of Storytelling" Richard Stone writes,
"When we recognize that our deepest aspirations cannot be satisfied by a culture that has reduced life's meaning to a smorgasborg of the senses and material possessions, we must search for new sources of meaning, struggling with the same questions that challenged our ancestors" (Page 3).
"Our longing to find our place in this world is more than just a feeling." (Page 3) If all these self-help books did what they claimed to do,
I would be at peace with myself, with my family, and even with my enemies, but this is not the case. We in the West have forgotten our philosophical roots: "Know thyself." In order to bypass my rational mind where I have formed certain prejudices, I need stories to help me slip past the "rational" guards standing there protecting my ego. Initially, my quest toward using stories to heal began with James Hillman's book "Healing Fiction." Richard Stone in his book "The Healing Art of Storytelling" offers a simpler and more understandable approach. I certainly appreciate Mr.Hillman motivating me to look to fiction to aid me, but his critical and academic approach confused my simple layperson's mind. Mr. Stone's approach is more understandable because he offers his views in simple everyday language. I am a realist at heart. I do not expect Romantic endings in life, but I do expect to find my way in and out of circles and through the many mazes of mysteries in my life. Richard Stone's book "The Healing Art of Storytelling" could be an aid for those looking for satisfaction that materialism has not been able to acccomplish or will ever able to do. Thank you Mr. Stone.
 Healed by storytelling. October 21, 1997
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Storyteller Richard Stone relates specific
steps to bringing the richness of storytelling
to our lives. With personal examples and many
exercises, he leads the reader down the ancient
road of story. This road leads past the quick
fix mentality of the '90's and the stuckness of
pop psychology toward the creativity which
has sustained cultures for generations. Buy
this book to help you reconnect to your story
and the story of those around you.
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