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
Food for Thought Tag: systems
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
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
Revolutionary Change Theories: Punctuated Equilibrium Paradigm
How do individuals. groups, organizations and industries evolve over time? How do they adapt or fail to adapt to changing environments? How can change be planned and managed?
Bob Stilger
September 21, 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
What would Homo Systemicus do?
This is one key chapter of a longer manuscript by Barry Oshry which examines the critical nature of power and love in the organic systems in which we humans live, but which we frequently are unable to see.
Bob Stilger
January 16, 2015
While Waiting For Homo Systemicus
Many of the problems we human beings encounter might be remedied if we overcame our blindness to the systems in which we live and developed what Barry Oshry calls systems sight. This thoughtful manuscript points towards a different pathway for our future.
Bob Stilger
January 16, 2015
Power and Love
Barry Oshry has spent decades analyzing the ways in which power works (and doesn’t work). This remarkable essay follows on a conversation Barry had with Adam Kahane before Adam wrote his book Power and Love. The essay offers critical insights.
Bob Stilger
January 16, 2015
