NewStories' Ecosystem

NewStories is a continually-evolving ecosystem with diverse projects and collaborators around the globe. NewStories incubates new initiatives, and sometimes they find their home here; often they go on to become their own independent organizations. NewStories maintains close relationships with organizations we’ve worked with, and you can learn more about them on the Stories of Change page.
Click the circles below for an overview of the current elements of the NewStories Ecosystem
The work nested within the NewStories Ecosystem currently includes:

Great Transition Stories
An online constellation of archetypal patterns, evolving stories, and related resources designed to help people and groups navigate change through these times of great disruption. Great Transition Stories aspires to Re-Story Humanity’s story of itself into a collaborative, compassionate species in right-relationship with Earth and all life.
Re-Storying our relationships with ourselves, each other and our planet by using archetypal stories—from ancient tales to current emerging narratives—to envision and embody a life-affirming future for all.

Transform Media
This publishing and learning platform centers the work of community practitioners from around the world who have been leading efforts for transformative change. It invites the NewStories community into new patterns of relationship with these authors/leaders to explore powerful ideas together. Transform Media hosts engagement with community practitioners as they write, publish, and share their learning with virtual and in-person events designed to deepen connection and invite exchange. Transform Media publishes about community-led systems change through digital channels, eBooks, and print media.
Re-Storying the ways we share knowledge, illuminating powerful ideas that make a difference.

Transformative Kinship Circles
Relationships with those we truly trust inspire our deepest learnings and most effective action. Transformative Kinship Circles reveal how kinship is a catalytic ingredient for lasting inner and outer transformation. Circles allow participants to cultivate deep connection with one another, access relational funding flows, and build rejuvenating relationships across distance. NewStories is currently tending two Circles: the first opens conduits of generosity, inviting equity into the heart of philanthropy. The second brings together communities disrupted by wildfire as they develop knowledge and support one another. More Circles are emerging.
Re-Storying the ways we work together to become self-organizing and truly rooted in trust & kinship.

PRACTICES
PRACTICES provides tangible tools and methods to Re-Story life in your context, making the process accessible, realistic, and effective. It guides you in navigating Re-Storying to regenerate the communities, organizations and systems you’re part of. We provide rich examples to inspire your vision of how to use these processes and tools in ways that align with your local values and aims. The practices are rooted in NewStories team’s decades of lived experience accompanying communities. As an evolving space, PRACTICES presents powerful tools and introduces emerging ones, inviting your active participation and storytelling about their application.
Re-Storying your context through encountering stories, tools & processes that can bring life to your transformative visions.

Principles-Guided CoCreation
Principles-Focused CoCreation (PGCC) is a guiding framework for values-rooted change across time and at any scale. Through participatory processes, communities and/or organizations name the values and principles of action that they consent to be guided by as they pursue systemic change together. PGCC combines methods of developmental evaluation with collaborative reflection, ensuring that actions embody shared principles and unfold organically, rather than being rigidly dictated by strategy. This approach fosters engagement, power sharing, and responsiveness to emerging needs and opportunities, making it particularly effective for complex long-term domains (like food justice work). By engaging stakeholders in a co-creative process, PGCC enhances diverse participation and creates meaningful, principle-guided outcomes.
Re-Storying systems large and small through intentional collaborative action, guided by shared values