The Power of Story. Sharon Blackie on her themes for Realisation 2026

How can myths and fairytales help us, personally and collectively? What stories, often almost lost, can aid us with contemporary crises? Why does the imagination so very much matter?

Sharon Blackie will lead us in the exploration of these themes and more on the opening of the first day of the Realisation Festival, 2026. She will invite us to consider possibilities beyond the hero's journey and also how to draw on images, community and the land.

Sharon was talking with Mark Vernon.

For more on Sharon's work, not least her new book, Ripening, see...