Elders, children, and women deserve respect as much as anyone else. Elders for their wisdom, children for their recent contact with the joyful mystery, and women as the heart of the community. The earth does not belong to people, rather people to the earth. Focus on the positive, since what we concentrate on grows. Storytelling is the most powerful activity we can engage in to empower communities, because storytelling is how new empowering ideas are shared.
Success stories are the best sales method there is.
We are the crystallisations of our paradigms, stories and myths, the 'footprint' of the meaning we assign to life, we live our stories as our lives. Some stories were so important to ancient near eastern cultures that only certain people were allowed to tell them. Plays and theatre were born in the temples, as storytelling methods. Stories structure our inner landscape, the inner world from which behaviour is born. Take the starfish story.