Here’s what the authors wrote about it on the amazon page: https://www.amazon.in/Story-Bridging-Connections-Possibilities-Bridges-ebook/dp/B0B6J9C8JR/ref=sr_1_1
I’ve known Graham Williams for several years, as one of the greatest compassionate and transcendent teachers. This book is magical.
“Stories serve so many purposes in our lives. Stories are about so much more than just reading or listening. They are instrumental in cognitive, social and emotional development.
The quality of the relationships that we have in our lives have much to do with the stories we tell others and to ourselves.
Authored by the eminent story-ninjas - Graham Williams, Terrence Gargiulo and Steve Banhegyi - the book STORY BRIDGING provides methods, processes, and dynamics of building bridges through story at the personal, community, organisational and nation-state levels.
Growing threats to humanity include global warming, degradation, destruction, pollution, conflict, the decline of scarce resources, shrinking economies, the rise of ‘me only’ narcissism, ‘we first’ patriotism relative to cooperative globalisation, the path that the Fourth Industrial Revolution might take, and shrinking personal freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an imposition of regulations ostensibly designed to prevent its spread. This has accentuated perceptions of curtailment of freedoms and basic human rights (including movement, earning a living, dignity, information, free speech…), creates distance between people and may have the effect of magnifying the degree of polarisation and fragmentation that we experience.
Story-Bridging is a way to counter the societal, economic and environmental impacts of negative, belittling, divisive, harmful and false narratives that characterise much current communication in our World. To introduce a process, dynamics and examples that allow for the building of bridges and transcend the walls that exist or are being built.