Description: Stories that offer a therapeutic journey for the storyteller and listener ? a positive, imaginative way of healing difficult situations.
Brief description: Susan Perrow, MEd, is an Australian author who works with "story medicine." She writes, collects, and documents stories that offer a therapeutic journey for the reader--a positive and imaginative way to address challenging behaviors and traumatic situations, including environmental grief and loss. Susan has an extensive background in teaching, writing, and therapeutic storytelling. She travels nationally and internationally giving keynotes and leading seminars for teachers, parents, and therapists, offering online training and talks, as well. Her therapeutic story work has led to the publication of four resource books published by Hawthorn Press: Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour (2008); Therapeutic Storytelling: 101 Healing Stories for Children (2012); An A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales (2017); and Stories to Light the Night: A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities (2021). The first two have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Serbian, and Croatian. Perrow also has released an app--Rainbow Tales: Healing Audio Sotries for Children--a therapeutic tool for parenting, teaching, and counseling children, ages 3 to 9 (available in online app stores).
Review Quotes: "Susan Perrow's inspirational adventures with storytelling have grown into this inspirational book. May its pages encourage you to speak healing words that help both children and adults to flourish." --Nancy Mellon, author of Storytelling with Children
"Susan Perrow gives us the tools to use and create stories that respond to the way children imagine their world. Practice what she teaches; it will enrich your life." --Michael Moran, storyteller and psychiatric nurse