Here you can download useful articles and find links to the websites of interesting organisations and forums. Should you wish to suggest an article or link for inclusion on the website, please e-mail a copy to katy[at]hawthornpress.com.
Useful links
Author websites
- Sally Goddard Blythe – consultant in neuro-developmental education
- Anna Dusseau – teacher and homeschooler
- Paul Matthews – poet
- Nancy Mellon – healing storyteller
- Kim John Payne – internationally renowned counsellor and family consultant
- Caroline Penney – parenting specialist and systemic family therapist
- Susan Perrow – therapeutic storyteller and teacher trainer
- Steffi Stern – needle felting and doll maker extraordinaire
- Margaret Bloom – enter the magical world of peg doll craft
Childhood/education organisations and campaigns
- Alliance for Childhood – working together to improve and protect the experience of childhood
- Play England – campaigning for the freedom to play
- Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship – serving Steiner education in the UK and Ireland
- Storytelling Schools – “Speaking, listening, confidence, empathy, ideas, facts, sequences, plots … you name it, storytelling can teach it.”
Magazines
- The Green Parent – green parenting magazine
- Juno – magazine promoting a natural approach to family life
- Kindling Journal – The journal for Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood, printed twice yearly
Self-development/training
- The Springboard Consultancy – award-winning personal development training programme for women
Storytelling
The Shadow Giant
by Susan Perrow
This story was written in the wake of the earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the floods and bushfires in Australia, the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan and the growing concern over chemical pollution and food shortages. Its aim is to reach primary and high-school children in an imaginative way to encourage discussion and debate.
Download The Shadow GiantThe Rose and the Thorn
by Susan Perrow
A Story for the Children of Norway (2011), written with help from Eldbjorg and Dieter Paulsen, Arendal, Norway.
Download The Rose and the ThornSocial Ecology Articles
Imaginative Education: Nurturing our Social Ecology
–Dr David Wright
Working with imagination as a quality of relationship rather than something that is perceived or asserted or experienced individually
DownloadSocial Ecology and Creative Pedagogy
–Dr Catherine Camden-Pratt
Using creative arts and critical thinking in co-creating and sustaining ecological learning webs in university pedagogies.
DownloadComparison of ecological understandings & prevailing assumptions & practices in industrialised societies
–Dr Stuart Hill
Handy one-page overview.
DownloadEthics, Sustainability and Healing
–Dr Stuart Hill
Tips on developing your own unique thoughts and actions related to the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development.
DownloadDeep Environmental Leadership –Dr Stuart Hill
–Dr Stuart Hill
Accepting and learning from small failures is the primary path to significant successes.
Trying to avoid this process, paradoxically, results in large failures.
Social Ecology Powerpoint Presentation
–Dr Stuart Hill
Too often it is ‘the bits that we don’t see’, and are unaware of, that enable most systems to function. Yet society tends to focus just on the most attractive visible bits, neglects the rest, and is frequently surprised by the increasingly common expressions of system breakdown.
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