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: Systems Thinking
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
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
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
Deep Adaptation
Can we look our current situation squarely in the eye? How do we live with the possibility that collapse is imminent, catastrophe likely and extinction possible? How do we find a way forward, accompanied by these hard truths?
Bob Stilger
September 9, 2018
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
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
Thomas Berry: The New Story
This powerful essay from 1978 by Thomas Berry was part of the inspiration for founding NewStories in 2000. It begins with these words: It’s all
Bob Stilger
April 30, 2016
