Stories, Lesson Plans & More

Essay
Memory’s Radial Path to Learning

This essay explores how memory and storytelling are tools to humanize learning, allowing students to connect to their inner lives.

Essay
Stories of Our Moral Deformation

How might stories act as keys allowing us access to challenge, examine, uproot, and illumine our habits and fears?

Essay
Doorways to Our Childhood Selves

This essay explores the power of our imagination and how stories can act as thresholds to our childhood selves.

Essay
Getting to the Heart of Global Education

This essay explores the origin story of the Global Oneness Project, the intention of the organization, and the goals of the Project’s free curriculum resources.

Audio Story
When the Earth Started to Sing

This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.

Essay
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.

Essay
Learning and Teaching from the Heart in Troubled Times

Ariel Burger explores ways to embrace curiosity and celebrate questions in challenging times.

Film
The Lindworm

Mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw tells an old Norwegian tale about a mythical creature that is part human and part snake.

High School
Grade Level: 9-12
Reclaiming Rivers
Film
The Ocean Inside

A meditation on surfing and the ocean, filmed off the coast of West Marin, California.