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 three curated collections – Afternow, Great Transition Stories and Essential Knowledge, as well as our blogs, below.
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
One Story: A Report of The First Peoples’ Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement
One Story That was what we heard and saw as each of 28 different communities, spread from the Alaska to the South Pacific, from Bangladesh
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
Sociological vs Psychological Storytelling
This Scientific American article by Zeynep Tufekci is more than an essay about one TV show with dragons. He uses fan reactions to the final
Most Recent BLOG Posts
Declaration of Interdependence
DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE From NewStories friend Robert Gass Dear friends, On this day, traditionally celebrated as the independence of our country, let us affirm that
Toward a Larger Patriotism: Reflections for a Transformed Narrative for America
It has been observed that next to a banjo, the most potent instrument for social transformation is a story—and that the future will belong to those who can tell the best story of the 21st century. Beginning in childhood, stories are how we make meaning of our lives. Stories also shape communities, institutions, and societies. Stories form the heart of a culture
An Interview About Building Community
What does it take to build community? Bob Stilger shares some of his ideas in the context of building a Cohousing community in Spokane, Washington, his home for the past 46 years.
