CURATED RESOURCES
An essential part of our work is to curate and offer resources that help all of us navigate in these times. please explore these curated collections – Our Pandemic Resource Center, Afternow, Great Transition Stories and Essential Knowledge, as well as our blogs, below.
Anti-Racism resource center
The heartbeat of racism itself has always been denial. The sound of that heartbeat is “I am not racist.” There is no such thing as “not racist.”
As we have started to add anti-racist materials to our Essential Knowledge collection, we have been struck by how much is out there. In many cases we are offering collections of resources created by others and sharing them in their context. We invite you to unlearn and learn with us.
AFTERNOW
AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin? is Bob's story of engaging with people to discover what is after now? It's his story and the story of thousands in Japan. AfterNow offers insights about how change happens, NOW, when the old is crumbling and the new is beginning to emerge. The book shares perspective on how grief turns into action after overwhelming loss and how people create the new from a future that had disappeared. AfterNow provides a foundation for NewStories work.
Essential Knowledge
This Essential Knowledge is categorized both by topic and types to make it easy for you to find what you need quickly. AND, it is a growing collection and we welcome your additions! Come look at what we have available and select resources that can help you find meaning and make sense of these times.
GREAT TRANSITION STORIES
The Long View
These truly are perplexing times. Days and nights filled with confusion. When we are able to settle down a bit, there is also a sense of deep possibility. Please explore these powerful insights from our friends at Commonweal.
Community Resilience Planning Guide
The Berry Creek fire in Northern California in September, 2020 was heartbreaking. Not far from the Camp Fire of November 8, 2018 which decimated Paradise,
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.
Most Recent BLOG Posts
Steps for Launching an Eco-Friendly Business
Start Learning I’ve been intrigued with what I see at NewStories for some time now. I told them I would also like to see more practical suggestions
This is real
The headlines are relentless. The image just overwhelming. In the last weeks when I have looked outside my windows in Spokane, Washington into the yellow soup of very hazardous air, I’ve felt overwhelm claustrophobic. Destruction of the small town of Malden, to the south of us is tragic. Hell, there’s so much tragedy around these days that it is hard to know where to start.
The following account comes from a cattleman, David Daley, in Northern California. It is his deeply personal story of the desecration of lands his family has walked for generations. It is more than hard to read. I urge you to take in as much as you can. We are in liminal space now. The space between what was and what will be. It is a time of collapse and regeneration. We have choices here. Personally, I am finding it hard to understand exactly what they are and to step towards them..
David’s Story
Wielding Unconscious White Power and Privilege
For eight years I had been practicing exercises to calm my anxious body. As a result, I have metabolized stuck energy from personal trauma and protective patterns from childhood that no longer serve me, opening up space inside for the healing and growth of my nervous system.
Then I heard Resmaa Menakem (author of My Grandmother’s Hands) on a podcast describing the work I’d been doing on a personal level but through the lens of race. … After listening to the podcast, I knew deep down in my bones that for true racial healing to begin, we must heal our nervous systems and our reptilian brains that react to keep us and our loved ones safe in a society in which bodies of different colors distrust and fear one another.
