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
Food for Thought Category: Futures Thinking
Sustaining Change in a Market Economy
Hanimin Liu offers the inescapable conclusion is that change is gradual and generation and requires persistence in patience. How do we take this truth on in our impatient world?
Bob Stilger
September 9, 2018
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
FutureSessions
At NewStories we have decades of experience in helping communities and organizations and businesses have conversations that matter — conversations which explore possibilities, strategize new action, deepen learning and …
Bob Stilger
August 13, 2018
Communities Report on Culture of Health
What does it take to create a Culture of Health in the United States? In 2016 NewStories embarked on a Listening Tour in West Virginia, Cherokee Nation, New Mexico and Northern California to find new questions and new insights.
Bob Stilger
April 8, 2017
TRANSIT: Transformative Social Innovation Theory
How does social innovation interact with other forms of (transformative) change, and how are actors (dis)empowered therein? TRANSIT (TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory) is an ambitious
September 9, 2015
未来が見えなくなったとき、僕たちは何を語ればいいのだろう
Bob Stilger spent four years working in Japan’s triple disaster area and shares stories, insights and questions about how we create a future when the world we know falls apart.
Bob Stilger
May 20, 2015
Cynefin Framework
The ways in which we effectively find our way forward, responding to a particular problem or opportunity, need to be situational. Our work is in one of four domains: simple, complicated, complex, chaos or disorder
Bob Stilger
February 1, 2015
The Soul of Place
Michael is an extraordinary artist with deep sensitivity to nature, leadership and community. This book is a wonderful exploration of the powers of place and how they can inform our lives.
Bob Stilger
December 31, 2014
