Powerful Stories – 2 x CDs

The Chinese Swordsman explores the art and craft of storytelling through a series of tales, joined seamlessly with approachable, engaging explanation. Find out how to use stories, the kinds of effects they can have and how the metaphors in them communicate. Understand more about the metaphorical mind, the relation between stories and dreams, story psychology, how to develop your own natural storytelling skills and much more.

The Enchanting Bird is a treasure chest of powerful stories, carefully arranged to give an imaginative and inspiring experience of stories told by a master storyteller. You will be able to return to again and again and find new levels to this material. Notes on the CD liner give hints about possible uses for each tale.

• The Chinese Swordsman (Chinese story)
• The Swordsman & the Enchanting Bird Listen
• Lakshmi & Vishnu (Indian story)
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• Mbala
• Tall Stories
• The Poor Man Who Became Rich Through a Dream (trad.’universal’ tale)
• Dreams & Schemes: Some Theories
• The Tray & the Cockerel (Reframing); The Three Gifted Wives (West African Story): Dilemma Tales
• The Diamonds & the Mine
• The Talisman (Trad. European Story)
• The Carpenter’s Sign: using contemporary anecdotes
• The Way you Tell ’em: Language and Style for Rapport
• The Silk Scarf (English Legend)

• The Enchanting Bird
• The Elephant in the Dark
• More Light
• The Noisy House
• The Old Mill
• It Ain’t Me
• The Tiger’s Whisker
• Quick Tales
  The Road (Walk, The Optimist, Roof or Walls, Displacement, The Hole)
• The Other Room
• The Beggar Minister
• The Other Island
• The Tailor’s Two Assemblings
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• More Quick Tales (Easy Assumptions, Getting Up, The Possible, Your Breath)
• Two Tales of Conversion: The Snake/The Fox & the Preacher
• Good Luck/Bad Luck
• Sindbad & the Old Man
• Millstream Blues