Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being Gladwin Derek
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being Gladwin Derek Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-being harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert…
Specifikacia Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being Gladwin Derek
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being Gladwin Derek
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-being harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of fear and powerlessness into affirmative life narratives. Many of our fears are stories we tell ourselves, even if they are largely fictional and rooted in sociocultural belief systems. Rather than seeing fear as an outcome, we can view it as a feeling in the moment largely governed by narratives.
This transformational book considers a potent antidote: by recognising our recurring negative stories, we can rewrite and transform them to achieve greater empowerment and well-being in our lives. The result is that we often feel helpless in the face of those fears. Throughout human existence, no matter where our place of origin or when in history, storytelling shapes our societies, influencing personal, sociocultural, educational, and public discourses that