by storytree | Apr 1, 2020 | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling
As globally we go into various stages of lockdown to ‘flatten the curve’ of Covid19, I pondered how much it is like being in hibernation during a severe winter. I recalled ‘Shingebiss and the North Wind’ as told by my storytelling friend and colleague Fran Stallings....
by storytree | Mar 23, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling
I don’t usually post my newsletters to my blog, but this one is special. How are you faring? How are those in your circle? I send you warm (non-infectious) hugs. 🙂 I hope you are managing to find peace, calm and compassion amid the storms of fear-inducing,...
by storytree | Mar 7, 2020 | Folk Tales, social justice, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
Bizarre hoarding behaviour over toilet paper has developed in Australia, the US, Singapore and possibly other countries in response to the rise of COVID-19, the most serious strain of the novel coronavirus. People are not just buying enough for a few weeks of...
by storytree | Jan 27, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
How can a simple old folktale be useful for activists and changemakers in complex modern crises? In tabloid papers, Chicken Little has at times been used by cartoonists in extremely dismissive and sometimes savage ways to imply that environmentalists warning of...
by storytree | Jan 16, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Learning to tell stories, Local stories, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
Last year for a long time after our so-called ‘climate election’ was lost here in Australia to a coal-loving party, I felt extremely deflated. I couldn’t find much motivation or desire to shine my storytelling light, when ordinarily that is the very...
by storytree | Jan 12, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling
Earlier last year, confronted by the news, I regularly struggled with the temptation to go hide under the bed covers. Sometimes I confess I gave in. As I write, the world watches in horror as walls of flame engulf vast tracts of Australia, while our government...
