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This unique resource offers new ideas, stories, creative activities and methods for people working in conservation, outdoor learning, environmental education, youthwork, business training, sustainability, health, social and economic change. It shows how to encourage pro-environmental behaviour with diverse participants: from organisation consultants and employees, to families, youth and children. The stories and their exploration engage people with nature in profound ways. The book describes how this engagement enhances participants’ emotional literacy and resilience, builds community, raises awareness of inter-species communication and helps people to create a sustainable future together. Its innovative techniques establish connections between place and sustainability. Facilitators can adapt all of this to their own situation.

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9781912480593

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"""A scintillating handbook to recover meaning in troubled times.""---- Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power ""At the Royal Botanic Garden, a growing belief in the power of storytelling to communicate on environmental matters has led to us scouring the world for sources of inspiration. This book has come along as an answer to our prayers and makes us feel part of something big and profoundly important to life.""---- Ian Edwards, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ""Climate change is arguably the greatest threat facing society in the immediate future and storytellers, like other artists, are increasingly turning their attention to the issue of promoting more sustainable ways of living. This book is important, not least because it brings together scholars and practitioners in the field to reflect on their work at this critical juncture. It will be a welcome and significant addition to the literature on the role of storytelling in an increasingly fragile world. Perhaps more importantly, it is an articulate and collective call to action.""---- Prof. Mike Wilson, Falmouth University, Cornwall, England ""Extremely useful to environmental professionals and educationalist who often struggle to find relevant resources.""---- Liz Carding, Tŷ Mawr Country Park, Wales ""If we are to be able to move to a more sustainable, more resilient future, we first have to be able to imagine it. We need to be able to tell its stories, weave its magic, bring it alive so we can see, smell, hear, taste and touch it. Storytelling for Nature Connection does just that, showing the powerful role storytelling can play, and the rich insights the storytellers bring with them. It is rich, powerful and of immense importance.""---- Rob Hopkins, co-founder, Transition Network ""Immensely valuable because it can help people develop the story making, story-giving, empathic and facilitation skills to inspire pro-environmental change.""---- Aran Stibbe, University of Gloucester, UK ""Stories are a powerful way in which we can connect with the people and places around us. Storytelling for Nature Connection will be a great resource for those working to encourage that connection.""---- Paul Hibberd, Interpretation Officer, Forestry Commission Scotland ""There is a great and previously unfilled need for a book of this kind, which will be of interest and usefulness to many people engaged, in different ways, in conservation, environmental education, business training, sustainability and social and economic change.""---- Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, President of One Planet Education Networks (OPEN) ""[A] powerful tool for change when placed in the hands of those who are at the front line of environmental education and campaigning."" ---- Rebecca Laughton, author of Surviving and Thriving on the Land"

""Extremely useful to environmental professionals and educationalist who often struggle to find relevant resources.""---- Liz Carding, Ty Mawr Country Park, Wales ""A scintillating handbook to recover meaning in troubled times.""---- Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power ""At the Royal Botanic Garden, a growing belief in the power of storytelling to communicate on environmental matters has led to us scouring the world for sources of inspiration. This book has come along as an answer to our prayers and makes us feel part of something big and profoundly important to life.""---- Ian Edwards, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ""Climate change is arguably the greatest threat facing society in the immediate future and storytellers, like other artists, are increasingly turning their attention to the issue of promoting more sustainable ways of living. This book is important, not least because it brings together scholars and practitioners in the field to reflect on their work at this critical juncture. It will be a welcome and significant addition to the literature on the role of storytelling in an increasingly fragile world. Perhaps more importantly, it is an articulate and collective call to action.""---- Prof. Mike Wilson, Falmouth University, Cornwall, England ""If we are to be able to move to a more sustainable, more resilient future, we first have to be able to imagine it. We need to be able to tell its stories, weave its magic, bring it alive so we can see, smell, hear, taste and touch it. Storytelling for Nature Connection does just that, showing the powerful role storytelling can play, and the rich insights the storytellers bring with them. It is rich, powerful and of immense importance.""---- Rob Hopkins, co-founder, Transition Network ""Immensely valuable because it can help people develop the story making, story-giving, empathic and facilitation skills to inspire pro-environmental change.""---- Aran Stibbe, University of Gloucester, UK ""Stories are a powerful way in which we can connect with the people and places around us. Storytelling for Nature Connection will be a great resource for those working to encourage that connection.""---- Paul Hibberd, Interpretation Officer, Forestry Commission Scotland ""There is a great and previously unfilled need for a book of this kind, which will be of interest and usefulness to many people engaged, in different ways, in conservation, environmental education, business training, sustainability and social and economic change.""---- Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, President of One Planet Education Networks (OPEN) ""[A] powerful tool for change when placed in the hands of those who are at the front line of environmental education and campaigning."" ---- Rebecca Laughton, author of Surviving and Thriving on the Land

Author Information

Alida Gersie PhD, widely published author, directed Arts Therapies postgraduate courses worldwide, advised thought leaders on storytelling and pro-environmental change since the 1970s. Anthony Nanson, ecological storyteller, award winning author, MAs in science, and in creative writing. Edward Schieffelin, Emeritus Reader in Anthropology at University College London, researcher in Papua New Guinea, work with WWF South Pacific on Rain Forest issues.

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