Storycatcher The Power of Story to Change Our Lives

by Baldwin, Christina

• ISBN13: 9781577314912
• ISBN10: 1577314913
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-12
• Publisher: New World Library

Summary

Story Is the Heart of Language. Story emotionally moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond the borders of our individuality to imagine realities of other people, times, and places; to empathize with other beings; to extend our supposing far into the universe. Storytelling - both oral tradition and written word - is the foundation of being human.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Following the Beeline
How Story Connects us	3	(24)
The Ear in the Heart
The Art of Storycatching	27	(26)
Tending Our Fire
Why We Make Story	53	(20)
It was a Dark and Stormy Night
Story Wakes Up	73	(24)
Riding Experience to Wisdom
The Map of a Story-Based Life	97	(20)
A Story to Stand On
Creating a Story of the Self	117	(26)
Writing and Talking in the Seven Generations
How Story Heals Family Heritage	143	(24)
We are the Ones
The Power of Story in Organizations	167	(26)
The Possible God
How Story Shapes the Spiritual Dimensions of Our Lives	193	(26)
Storycatcher
Taking Our Place in the Order of Things	219	(20)
Acknowledgments	239	(4)
Notes	243	(8)
About the Author	251