Finding Our Next Now
A momentous time in the Divided States of America. How will we find our way forward now? Diversity and difference are critical ingredients for creativity.
Bob Stilger
November 4, 2020
Food for Thought Category: Featured Knowledge
Just Before the Dawn
Otto Scharmer offers a thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of where we are and how we might move ahead in this time of turmoil and confusion
Bob Stilger
November 2, 2020
Principles of Life Affirming Leadership
In the first decade of this century, NewStories and The Berkana Institute worked close with people and communities throughout the world and primarily in the
Bob Stilger
October 26, 2020
Collapse and Regeneration
Walking the Line Between Denial and Despair A couple of months ago, I received an email from Jenn Meilleur, our soon to be new Executive
Bob Stilger
March 14, 2020
One Story: A Report of The First Peoples’ Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement
One Story That was what we heard and saw as each of 28 different communities, spread from the Alaska to the South Pacific, from Bangladesh
Bob Stilger
June 20, 2019
Pedagogy of Bioregional Regeneration
This remarkable conceptual framework comes to us from Joe Brewer. Much of our work at NewStories is around how to step beyond the extraordinary pressure
Bob Stilger
June 7, 2019
Developmental Evaluation Primer
Developmental Evaluation is the one of the most developed “complexity-aware” evaluation approaches. This PDF, developed by Canada’s McConnell Foundation provides an excellent overview.
Bob Stilger
September 7, 2018
The NewStories Regenerating Communities Spiral
NewStories Introduces a framework — the Spiral of Co-Creating — as a new way to look at how we can create collective impact.
Bob Stilger
September 1, 2018
Cynefin Framework from AfterNow
This chapter excerpt from AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin? gives a solid and colorful introduction to how we must work
Bob Stilger
August 29, 2018
Methods for Dialogue and Conversation
How do we design and host conversations that matter? This PDF shares the approaches Bob Stilger used in Japan for five years after the the Triple Disasters of March 11, 2011.
Bob Stilger
August 13, 2018
Aquaponics in Cherokee Nation
Vian, OK – It all started with an innate passion for helping others, and Oklahoma resident Richard Tyler has it. Tyler’s passion and hard work has led to a 10,000sf aquaponic facility he constructed in 2015 to address the need for quality food in Vian’s predominantly Native American community.
Bob Stilger
March 5, 2018
AfterNow: Introduction
In the summer of 2017 NewStories will publish Bob Stilger’s Book AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin. The book is his story of how he entered in to the intense field of collapse. It is the stories of how people found their way forward to create a new normal — a new NOW.
Bob Stilger
May 6, 2017
