{"product_id":"the-healing-heart-for-communities-storytelling-for-strong-and-healthy-communities-families","title":"The Healing Heart for Communities: Storytelling for Strong and Healthy Communities (Families)","description":"The Healing Heart provides powerful examples of the use of stories and storytelling in encouraging resiliency  empathy  respect  and healing. These engaging books contain stories  and narratives about the use of the stories in activities with different populations (children  teens  those with disabilities  seniors  inmates  etc.) or which address specific social or community problems (addictions  poverty  violence  racism  environmental degra-dation  homelessness  abuse). The books are a collective effort containing the expertise of more than 60 storytellers and health professionals who illustrate the power of story in moving others to commitment and action  in building self-esteem and mutual respect. The Healing Heart  Families focuses on families  dealing specifically with healing through story  health promotion  disease prevention  early childhood intervention  children with medical problems  adopting families  schools  sexual identities  grief  and spiritual healing. The Healing Heart  Communities focuses on community-building  with sections on youth  violence prevention  poverty  domestic violence  substance abuse and addiction  racism  elders  culture  environmental protection  homelessness  and community development. Allison Cox is a therapist and Prevention Specialist  in Tacoma  Washington  with 20 years experience as a professional storyteller  and is a founder of the Healing Story Alliancepart of the National Storytelling Network. David Albert is a storyteller  writer  and Senior Planner and Policy Analyst with the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse  and a contributor to Spinning Tales  Weaving Hope (New Society  2002).","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44813695090741,"sku":"ByrdShop_0865714681","price":63.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0865714681_e43e8327-1d98-46c5-ab1d-308f07c4e68c.jpg?v=1770180954","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-healing-heart-for-communities-storytelling-for-strong-and-healthy-communities-families","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}