Books by Nancy
Body Eloquence is an inspirational guide drawing mythology, medicine, biology and energy medicine into a generative and award-winning matrix of healing wisdom. Multicultural and personal tales are woven together, showing how our major organs are part of our psyche, our cosmic and earthly inheritance, and our collective human dysfunctions and well-being. We learn how to recognize and engage creatively with exact organic patterns in health and relationship issues to profoundly benefit all. Written with Ashley Ramsden, Founding director of the School of Storytelling at Emerson College UK. Forward by Donna Eden, an extraordinary healer.
Available internationally in your local and web bookstores.
Body Eloquence
USA Book News Best Books 2008 Award
Winner: Alternative Medicine Category
“The fact that someone has assembled this information in this way is in itself an encouragement to wake up and reach for much greater personal expression and integration. I am deeply inspired by this book to find my own voice and and to invite my whole self to greater well being.”
Reader comments
“This book is kind even to a grouchy or seriously awry organ. In the same way we can experience ever more compassion for others, it shows us we can feel ever more compassion for our bodies as the willing servants of our conscious evolution.”
“As an experiential learner and an avid journaler, it is engaging and empowering on all levels to find a book that invites me to experience my physiological organs directly. I usually have a cold, dry feeling when I consult medical texts. This book warms me and causes me to take an enjoyably creative attitude toward my own healing process.”
Chapter 4 by Nancy Mellon
Caretakers of Warmth & Wonder: Creative Storytelling in Schools Today
“How can the 21st century storyteller bring more awareness and conscious choice into the fields of electronic communication? As virtual advertising and media networks burst into households and school communities to change so radically the culture of our daily lives, I often wonder, with Sherry Turkle (2015) and many others, how a diet of mechanized images and voices especially is affecting children. As we listen with storyteller’s ears and all our faculties intact to our global human cliffhanger may we all become more aware amidst the internet of things of the vast trove of immaterial wisdom that lives ever-present, free from electronic influences. Surely it is possible to slow down the virtual words that are rushing at our minds and finger-tips in today’s classrooms, and to feel deeply the tremendous vitality that lives within and beyond the world’s great stories.”- Nancy Mellon
Storytelling with Children
Nancy Mellon shows how you can become a confident storyteller. Learn how to nurture wonder, joy and love for your family, and all those you care about with this detailed guidebook, which includes the success stories of many who doubted their ability to practice this delightfully practical and important household art. Foreword by Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul. Published in association with the Alliance for Childhood.
Available internationally in your local and web bookstores, including editions in Swedish, Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and Russian.
"Let Nancy Mellon teach you to be a storyteller and a discoverer, for you and your children, of worlds that truly make a difference."
Foreword by Thomas Moore, Author of Care of the Soul
Reader comments
"Nancy Mellon continues to be an inspiration for storytellers old and new. Her experience, advice and suggestions work wonders. They are potent seeds that give you the creative confidence to find your own style of storytelling."
Ashley Ramsden, Founding Director, International School of Storytelling, Emerson College, UK
"Sensitive suggestions, gentle advice and sage insights, this is a story-cupboard to feed imagination and heart. From it parents will know that they are the storytellers to give their children present delight, a lifetime's inner nourishment, a family core of confident knowing."
David Campbell Poet, Broadcaster and Scottish Storyteller
Healing Storytelling
This classic in the field of storytelling has offered the tools for transformational story-making and story-telling since 1992. As a true path of self-development, storytelling awakens intuitive guidance, and nourishes profound confidence in life.
Teachers, healing professionals, community leaders, parents, and students carry this inspirational book with them, dog-eared and worn, in backpacks and purses, to help them to transform daily challenges.
Healing Storytelling is the third edition of Storytelling and the Art of Imagination, published by Hawthorn Press UK with the Forward by Susan Perrow.
Available internationally in your local and web bookstores, including editions in Spanish, Russian and Portuguese.
“Nancy Mellon explores stories as maps for learning and healing. She leads readers into the imaginative and transforming world of the traditional story, with vast knowledge of its wise symbolic potency,”
Mary Smail, Dramatherapist and Psychotherapist, SoulWorks, UK
Reader comments
“The book enriches the practice of storytellers of all kinds in artistic performance, education and creative groupwork.”
Donald Smith, Scottish International Storytelling Festival
“I most appreciate Nancy Mellon’s book for its clarity about storytelling, and the warmth and eagerness she brings to the art form.”
Caleb Winebrenner, Storyteller
A family builds a new home at the edge of a pine forest. As the full moon shines on the new pinewood floors, walls, and ceiling, the children have a most surprising dream: out of a large pinewood knot climb seven friendly nature spirits who sing and dance with them. In the morning, the children are inspired to plant seedlings and promise their parents always to take good care of their trees.
A portion of the proceeds from this book supports the international charity A Million Trees.
The Knottles
Reader comments
"The message of the story is important and meaningful to the children, as well as delightful.”
“The illustrations are soft and inviting. Any parent or teacher will enjoy sharing this story with their children!"
"We absolutely love this book. My children (age 5 and 7) ask for it often. On a recent hike, they started a game of ‘Find the Knottles’ in the forest.”