STORYTELLING

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National Storytelling Network and International Storytelling Network. NSN is a member driven organization that offers direct services, publications and educational opportunities to several thousand individuals, local storytelling guilds and associations to enhance storytelling at all levels. It sponsors the National Storytelling Conference; StoryNet, the NSN website, a magazine, a storytelling directory, and the annual Tellabration. ISC is focused on the advocacy of storytelling as an art form that brings positive change in all areas of human endeavor. ISC is building the National Storytelling Center, a center dedicated to conserving the history of storytelling, hosting a resource center and performance facility. NSN also has a grants program to fund storytelling projects. National Storytelling Network, 1-800-525-4514; 423-913-8201; nsn@storynet.orgor http://www.storynet.org/. InternationalStorytellingCenter; 1-800-952-8392; 423-753-2171; http://www.storytellingfoundation.net/.  Healing Arts Special Interest Group of the National Storytelling Network is an organization of storytellers, therapists, health care professionals, clergy, community organizers, educators and youth workers who value the use of storytelling as a healing art. 1-800-525-4514 or http://www.healingstory.org/ 101 Courthouse Square, Jonesborough, TN 37659.

Story Circle Network. An organization of women who want to explore their lives and souls by exploring their personal stories. Many resources, including lifestory briefs, journals, interviews, reading resource sand more. http://www.storycircle.org/

The Storycorps. An amazing site that tells the story of and showcases stories of people all over the country who interview family, friends and neighbors in either a mobile story booth, or at Grand Central Station in NYC. The site includes information about job openings, volunteer opportunities, how to record your own story or interview another (including an interviewing kit) and of course amazing stories to hear! This organization is based on the 1930s WPA project. www.StoryCorps.net

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Bibliography
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David Armstrong. Managing by Storying Around.

Aftel, Mandy. The Story of Your Life.

Milton J. Bates. The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling

Brody, Ed, Joy Goldspinner, Katie Green, Rona Leventhal, and John Porcino, eds. Spinning Tales and Weaving Hope.

Davis, Donald. Telling Your Own Stories.

Stephen Denning, The Springboard : How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations

Emma Donoghue. Kissing the Witch.

Feldman, Christina, and Jack Kornfield, eds. Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart.

Gersie, Alida. Earthtales.

Gillard Marni. Storyteller Storyteacher.

Greene, Bob, and D.G. Fulford. To Our Children’s Children.

Ready-to-Tell Tales: Sure-Fire Stories from America’s Favorite Storytellers, edited by David Holt and Bill Mooney.

ErnistKurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning.

Larsen, Stephen. The Mythic Imagination.

N. J. Livo, Story Medicine: Multicultural Tales of Healing and Transformation.

Doug Lipman and Jay O’Callahan, The Storytelling Coach: How to Listen, Praise, and Bring Out People's Best.

Doug Lipman, Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play

Erica Helm Meade. Tell It By Heart: Women and the Healing Power of Story

Mellon, Nancy. Storytelling and the Art of Imagination.

Maguire, Jack. Creative Storytelling.

Margaret Read MacDonald, The Storyteller’s Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing and Using Folktales: Including TwelveTellable Tales.

WilliamMooney, et. al, The Storyteller's Guide: Storytellers Share Advice for the Classroom, Boardroom, Showroom, Podium, Pulpit and Central Stage (American Storytelling)

Moore, Robin. Awakening the Hidden Storyteller.

Ruth Sawyer. The Way of the Storyteller

Annette Simmons, The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling.

Jimmy Neil Smith, ed. Homespun: Tales from America’s Favorite Storytellers.

Stone, Elizabeth. Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins.

Stone, Richard. The Healing Art of Storytelling.

Stotter, Ruth, ed. One Hundred Memorable Quotes About Stories and Storytelling.

Taylor, Daniel. The Healing Power of Stories.

Winokur, Jon, ed. True Confessions.

Zeitlin, Steve J., Amy J. Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker. A Celebration of American Family Folklore.

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