{"product_id":"restorying-america-david-michael-boje-9798249257279","title":"ReStorying America: Healing Narrative Wounds in Families, Communities, and Organizations","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Boje has spent fifty years studying how stories hold people together - and how they tear families, communities, and nations apart. A Vietnam veteran, cancer survivor, and world leader in organizational storytelling, he lives on a ranch in New Mexico where his horses remind him daily that alignment beats argument every time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestorying America\u003c\/i\u003e follows David and Wilma - a composite of dozens of real people whose life-pathways through America look nothing like his - on a journey into families, communities, and organizations in deep conflict. Not to argue. Not to diagnose. \u003cb\u003eStop winning the argument, Start \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eChanging the story.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Through together-listening practices, mirroring exercises, and story-listening circles, this book trains volunteers to go where the trouble is and offer something no political argument can: a way to restory who we are to one another. Every chapter includes discussion questions and experiential exercises. This is not a book you read. It is a book you \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e. America divided cannot stand. But not along the old fault lines of us versus them - that framing \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamilies that once gathered for Thanksgiving now spend fifty fewer minutes together because the partisan gap between their zip codes makes sitting at the same table feel like a moral betrayal. One in two American adults is estranged from at least one close relative. One in five of those estrangements is tied directly to political differences that have intensified over the last fifty years. Fewer than two percent of voters believe the other side understands them at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not just numbers. These are mothers who no longer call their sons. Brothers who cannot be in the same room. Hospital staff split into opposing factions. Small towns where school board meetings erupt into shouting matches that end with families leaving the community entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Boje knows what this is. He has studied it for fifty years. This is a \u003ci\u003estatic linear narrative\u003c\/i\u003e problem - a story-architecture that cherry-picks everything to fit a beginning-middle-end script of heroes and villains, and leaves the Little Wow Moments as untold stories on the cutting room floor. These linear narrative problems require dynamic \u003ci\u003estorying\u003c\/i\u003e solutions: together-listening without blame, judgment, or shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestorying America\u003c\/i\u003e follows David and Wilma - a composite of dozens of real Americans whose life-pathways look nothing like his - into families, communities, and organizations in deep conflict. Through the book's Restorying Protocol, together-listening practices, mirroring exercises, and story-listening circles, readers learn not just to understand the methodology but to \u003ci\u003euse\u003c\/i\u003e it - as trained volunteers who go where the trouble is and offer something no political argument ever can: a way to restory who we are to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery chapter includes discussion questions and experiential exercises. This is not a book about healing. It is a field guide \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e healing - for anyone brave enough to sit at the table when the easy thing would be to walk away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Michael Boje\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798249257279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"David Michael Boje","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084135735551,"sku":"9798249257279","price":27.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/restorying-america-david-michael-boje-9798249257279","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}