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Author |
: Thomas King |
Publisher |
: House of Anansi |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780887846960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0887846963 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Truth about Stories by : Thomas King
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Author |
: David Denborough |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2014-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393709131 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393709132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience by : David Denborough
Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and promote change. Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell our stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and ease our sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdoms from the field of narrative therapy, this book is designed to help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives. The book invites readers to take a new look at their own stories and to find significance in events often neglected, to find sparkling actions that are often discounted, and to find solutions to problems and predicaments in unexpected places. Readers are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like the externalizing problems - 'the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem' -and the concept of "re-membering" one's life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises demonstrate how these ideas have helped many people overcome intense hardship and will help readers make these techniques their own. The book also outlines practical strategies for reclaiming and celebrating one's experience in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging. Filled with relatable examples, useful exercises, and informative illustrations, Retelling the Stories of Our Lives leads readers on a path to reclaim their past and re-envision their future.
Author |
: Kindra Hall |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins Leadership |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2022-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400228416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400228417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choose Your Story, Change Your Life by : Kindra Hall
The things we tell ourselves affect how well or poorly our path in life goes. It’s time to flip the script on the internal stories you tell yourself and live life on your terms. Most of the “self-stories” you tell yourself—the kind of person you say you are and the things you are capable of—are invisible to you because they have become such a part of your everyday mental routine that you don’t even recognize they exist. Yet, these self-stories influence everything you do, everything you say, and everything you are. Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will help you take complete control of your self-stories and create the life you’ve always dreamed you’d have. Author Kindra Hall offers up a new window into your psychology, one that travels the distance from the frontiers of neuroscience to the deep inner workings of your thoughts and feelings. In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, Kindra will help you: Uncover the truth of how you have created the life you have; Challenge everything you think you know about how your life has been built; Uncover the clear steps you can take to create the life you want; Take control of your self-story to become the author of who you are; and Live your life in a way you never have before. This eye-opening, but applicable journey will transform you from a passive listener of these limiting, unconscious thoughts to the definitive author of who you are and everything you want to be. Changing your life is as simple as choosing better stories to tell yourself. If you can change your story, you can change your life.
Author |
: Richard Holloway |
Publisher |
: Canongate Books |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2020-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786899941 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786899949 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stories We Tell Ourselves by : Richard Holloway
Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come from, and the stories we tell to get through this muddling experience of life. Thought-provoking, revelatory, compassionate and playful, Stories We Tell Ourselves is a personal reckoning with life’s mysteries by one of the most important and beloved thinkers of our time.
Author |
: Amy Reed |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2018-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781534409019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1534409017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Stories, Our Voices by : Amy Reed
“Truthful and empowering.” —Booklist From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Nina LaCour, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an “outstanding anthology” (School Library Connection) of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America. This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including award-winning and bestselling writers—touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today’s America, and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Sure to inspire hope and solidarity to anyone who reads it, Our Stories, Our Voices belongs on every young woman’s shelf. This anthology features essays from Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, Ilene Wong (I.W.) Gregorio, Maurene Goo. Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie LcLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker.
Author |
: Vanessa Chase Lockshin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0995089302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780995089303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Storytelling Non-Profit by : Vanessa Chase Lockshin
"The Storytelling Non-Profit is a portable consultant for fundraisers, communicators and executive directors who want to tell great stories. In this book, professionals will learn a process for telling a story that inspires and resonates with a target audience."--Back cover.
Author |
: Cynthia Loyst |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2020-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781508259343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1508259348 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Find Your Pleasure by : Cynthia Loyst
From The Social cohost Cynthia Loyst, a deeply personal lifestyle book about how to take the guilt out of pleasure and get to the heart of what you need and want in all aspects of life—from family, home, and work to love and sex. Find Your Pleasure is a pleasure revolution: where society has told women to feel guilty or ashamed for embracing pleasures, Cynthia Loyst shows you how to get to the heart of what you need and want, in every aspect of life. Live: Uncover the beauty of everyday moments, celebrate family and friends, find fun and satisfaction in your workdays, and enjoy the immense rewards parenting has to offer—all while being mindful of taking care of yourself. Love: Cynthia reveals everything from learning to enjoy your body more, ways to feel intimate and communicate effectively with your partner, and the keys to having better sex. Inspire: Find out how to let your creative self bloom, seek out exciting new pathways in life, and let kindness guide you with Cynthia’s tips and tricks for mastering mindfulness and meditation. Through her insightful anecdotes, Cynthia empowers women to revel in all of life’s joys, even the messy ones. Filled with beautiful color photographs, Find Your Pleasure is a treat for the soul that you can devour in one go or savor in tiny bites.
Author |
: Dan P. McAdams |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 394 |
Release |
: 2013-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199969753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199969752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Redemptive Self by : Dan P. McAdams
In this revised and expanded edition of The Redemptive Self, McAdams shows how redemptive stories promote psychological health and civic engagement among contemporary American adults.
Author |
: Lee Roy Beach |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2010-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781453542736 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1453542736 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Psychology of Narrative Thought by : Lee Roy Beach
This book is about how we think and how what we think shapes our attempts to manage the ongoing course of our lives. Our primary mode of thought is in the form of stories, called narratives, which help us make sense of what is going on around us and provide context for it by linking it to what has happened in the past. Moreover, narratives allow us to use the past and present to make educated guesses, called forecasts, about what will happen in the future. When the forecasted future is undesirable, we intervene to ensure that the actual future, when it arrives, is more to our liking. Narrative thought has its limits, particularly when logical rigor is required. The implications of these limits are discussed, as are the ways in which people have attempted to overcome them.
Author |
: Mev Miller |
Publisher |
: IAP |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2011-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781617356407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1617356409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Stories, Ourselves by : Mev Miller
Women’s lives are often written on our bodies. Yet very little is made of the impacts of embodiment for women in literacy education, both learners and professionals. This volume presents the writings of 26 contributors—teachers, students, and administrators—who examine the rich terrain of personal and professional experiences related to whole person engagement in learning and teaching. These writings provide a compass to guide readers through the bodily landscapes, mindful flights, willful spirits, and emotional embraces. Written with the same desire to open minds, hearts and practices to new understanding, this book builds on the successful style of Empowering Women through Literacy (2009). This new volume appeals to all readers, as the essays, poems, and investigations woven through its pages challenge us to consider the embodyment of women’s learning. Join us on the journey as we travel across many arenas and discover significant ways to comprehend and support best practices in teaching and learning, especially for women.