Alida Gersie is a widely published author and world authority on story-work, therapeutic storytelling and popular education. She has directed Art Therapy postgraduate courses worldwide and has advised the leading thinkers on storytelling and the need for environmental change since the 1970s. She is one of the originators of the widely-used Six-Part Story Method.
Alida is editor of and contributor to Storytelling for Nature Connection: Environment, community and story-based learning.
Author’s Books
Storytelling for Nature Connection: Environment, community and story-based learning
Edited by Alida Gersie, Anthony Nanson and Edward Schieffelin with Charlene Collison and Jon Cree
A treasury of stories, creative activities and methods that environmental educators and storytellers can use to affect people’s pro-environmental behaviour.
Links
Article on Six-Part Storymaking
Watch Alida’s talk on “Ways Grandmother Stories Could be Used Therapeutically”, at Chennai Storytelling Festival 2021: Dr. Alida Gersie, 13th Feb 2021 (YouTube) .