Storytelling for nature connection: environment, community and story-based learning, Alida Gersie, Anthony Nanson and Edward Scheiffelin (eds) (2022) [Book Review]

This book presents the reader with powerful and lively educational, performance- based and practical information about storytelling and storymaking on the theme of climate change. The text plays a significant role in recognizing and mediating the climate’s threatening shifts in our communities and the wider world. Drama therapists will be especially engaged by the insightful strategies to deepen our clients’ individual and interpersonal enthusiasm towards sustainability, as well as nuanced ways of facilitating some challenging groups. Every chapter interweaves a connection between human creativity and the wonder and beauty of the natural world, subtly enfolding communities of learners. The joy of imaginative group discovery, mainly outdoors, inspires creativity and concern for the environment in a way that climate change statistics alone never can.