further reading, listening & watching
Useful practical resources
- Shawn Callahan and Mark Schenk at Anecdote in Australia have a very practical and engaging website, bursting with useful resources.
- Annette Simmons who founded Group Process Consulting in the 1980s has written two handy books and her website has useful resources.
- ‘Building bridge using narrative techniques’ has lots of useful techniques and can be downloaded from this link = a guide in four languages commissioned from Sparknow by the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation.
- ‘Using story to carve out spaces in which the organisation can start to breathe’ by Victoria Ward, from an edition of AI practitioner edited by Natalie Shell in February 2008.
- Smart Meme has some useful resources and worksheets for campaigning and activist organisations, of which ‘The Battle of the Stories’ is a particularly useful one.
- Doug Lipman is an experienced storyteller and teacher who has plenty of pragmatic tips and ideas to offer.
- Sharing the stories of the Cairngorms National Park – a guide to interpreting the area’s distinct character and coherent identity. This is a great guide, whose principles can be applied in other settings.
- ‘The Storyteller’ by Walter Benjamin was written between the wars. It’s the best single thing I’ve ever read about storytelling.
And three useful books of theoretical context:
- Ken Gergen ‘An invitation to social construction’ (Sage Publications 1999)
- Lewis Hyde ‘The Gift’ (Vintage Books, 1983)
- Karl Weick, ‘Sense making in Organisations’ (Sage Publications 1992)
