Drawing on years of research, this book offers a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of creative storytelling, a powerful craft for conveying ideas, beliefs, emotions, and experiences in a captivating way that resonates deeply. By exploring both the outward and inward hero's journey, it reveals how stories function as timeless life lessons, guiding us toward symmetry, assimilation, and Aristotelian catharsis. Delving into the hero's journey and the psychology behind storytelling, the book presents it as a subtle yet profound tool, a non-invasive method capable of reshaping individuals and societies. It offers practical techniques, best practices, and a curriculum designed to cultivate narrative intelligence, foster creativity and innovation, and empower readers to shape the stories that define us. By blending traditional and unconventional approaches, it enriches the lifelong learning of storytelling professionals as co-shapers of humanity's collective experiences and ecosystems.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-0364-3417-5 (9781036434175)
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Niki Lambropoulos is a writer and an educator, teaching creative storytelling in the Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work at the University of Patras in Greece, specialising in Storytelling and Digital Humanities. She holds a PhD from London South Bank University, UK, where she subsequently conducted a post-doctoral Marie Curie fellowship. She earned a BA from Tripolis Academy and the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education at the University of Athens, Greece, and a Master's degree from the Institute of Education at University College London. She studied Creative Writing, History of Contemporary Art, and Screenwriting at the University of the Arts London, Sotheby's Institute of Art, University of East Anglia, UK, and with Robert McKee. She is a keynote speaker at international conferences, has published four books and edited two, seventeen book chapters, twenty-three peer-reviewed journal articles, twenty invited workshops, and sixty-four conference papers. She has won international awards and accolades as a screenwriter and is a member of the Writer's Guild of Great Britain, and the Women in Film and Television.