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: Innovation
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
Project30
When disaster strikes, communities come together. Government, businesses, nonprofits, community groups and citizens set aside suspicions and grievances and just do what needs to be
Bob Stilger
May 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
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
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
Limits to Complexity: Are Bureaucrasies Becoming Unmanageable?
This lovely analysis was made by Duane Elgin and Robert Bushnell almost 40 years ago and points with stunning accuracy to our world today. Limits
Bob Stilger
March 3, 2016
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
