How Your Story Sets You Free

Description

How do you find your truth and tell a powerful story? How can sharing your story with the world inspire change and forge stronger connections within your community? This inspirational guidebook will help people from all walks of life unlock their personal narratives. Storytelling coaches Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen invite readers to embrace the power of storytelling in a series of easy steps, no matter how scary it feels. This is the latest instalment in the How series, which offers expert guides to connecting more deeply with the arts, the world, and ourselves. Packed with practical and motivating advice, and featuring a textured cover with glittering foil stamping, this little book will remind everyone that their truth matters.

Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen are the founders of the Million Person Project, a global project about love, storytelling, and connecting change-makers. Heather and Julian are fascinated by how authentic personal stories can transform a room, a relationship, an organisation, or the world. They have led coaching and training sessions all over the globe (from Vietnam to Brazil to Uganda), and they believe that stories are truly universal. Their past clients include musician Sara Bareilles, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, and street artist Caledonia Curry. Heather and Julian live in San Francisco.

"I love small books with huge wisdom, and How Your Story Sets You Free is definitely one of them. Heather and Julian are masterful in navigating you through the funny, rocky, delicate, and sometimes scary terrain of sharing yourself boldy, humbly, and unapologetically. Your story and your truth matter--honor your journey and it will set you free." --Rha Goddess, founder CEO of Move The Crowd, author of The Calling "Human beings understand the world best through stories: not policy papers, not PowerPoint, but stories. And in this book Heather and Julian are ace story-enablers, bringing out the tales that all of us have inside. A must-read!" --Bill McKibben, bestselling author of Falter and Radio Free Vermont "Working with Heather and Julian changed everything by getting me over the hurdle that stood between what was true about my life and what I was willing to share with the world. I became able to join my life's work with my life's hardest-won lessons. The passionate energy that wakes up inside us when we know we're powered by the full truth is something I wish for every single one of us. I'm so grateful they've distilled their wisdom and vision into this book. Dig into the lessons and exercises inside, do the work, jump over your hurdles, because trust me, we need to hear your story--and so do you!" --Caledonia Curry, artist who goes by Swoon