Living story explained

For oral tradition, when stories lead to a restorying of the past narrative, or the future antenarrative, they become living stories.^[1] For example, David Boje says “living story has many authors and as a collective force has a life of its own. We live in living stories.”^[2] In the work of Native scholar Twotrees, living stories have a mind, a time, and a place.^[3] For Gregory Cajete and lived stories are the “life and process of the natural world becoming vehicles for the transmission of culture".^[4]

Notes and References

1. Twotrees, K. (1997). Presentation at the Organizational Behavior Teaching conference, meeting at Case Western Reserve, Ohio.
2. Boje, D. M. (2008). Storytelling organizations, London: Sage Page 338
3. Twotrees, K. (2000). Seven directions practice: A practice for the crossroads, The Fourth R (Vol. 92, August, Sept, October) published by CRENet (Conflict Resolution in Education Network).
4. Cajete, G. (2000). Native Science; Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers. page 94