This kind of story sits deeper than any piece of literature or propaganda, deeper than our epic myths or religious texts. It operates at the level of world-shaping that Donella Meadows, one of the pioneers of systems thinking, articulated as the paradigm, which she described as: ‘The shared idea in the minds of society, the great big unstated assum

Thinking is a creative act that can disclose or discover new meanings in old stories, even if the way they are read departs from the interpretations of the scholars who have assumed ownership of the material.

Stories are the highest technology of being.

stories have the power to make us connect; stories make us human.