Storyteller Caylin of Forest Schooled has written a blog post about the difference between ‘story as teacher’ and ‘story as healer’. Stories can teach us so much; they can convey concepts and introduce new skills. However, with therapeutic stories, the impact is necessarily more diffuse. Caylin quotes Susan Perrow, who cautions against following a therapeutic story with any kind of interpretation or closed meaning: you must leave the story to do its work.
Read the full post over at Forest Schooled, which includes a story that Caylin wrote for bereaved children and their responses to it.
Stories to Light the Night: A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities
Susan Perrow
Stories and words have therapeutic potential. They can strengthen us, help to reframe things, and help make meaning. This book offers story medicine for children, families and communities at times of grieving, loss and separation.
