Ancient Patterns, Emerging Futures
Navigating the Tides of Change
Stories shape what we notice, what we imagine, and how we act. They connect our experiences to something larger and help us understand where we are, what may be changing, and what might be possible.
We are living through a time of profound transition. Around the world, people and communities are responding, adapting, remembering, experimenting, and creating new possibilities. Great Transition Stories brings their experiences into relationship with enduring wisdom, contemporary insight, research, frameworks, and practices from many ways of knowing.
Together, they help make larger patterns of transition visible—along with connections that might otherwise remain unseen and possibilities already taking shape. Explore the commons, follow what sparks your curiosity, and discover where the threads might lead.
There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate.
— From Hopi Elders’ Prophecy
Navigating This Site
Great Transition Stories is organized across four interconnected sections, with stories, frameworks, reflections, and hundreds of curated resources offering many ways into the commons. Within each section, you can explore different facets of transition, follow connections across the site, and go deeper through related resources and voices from our growing community of storytellers.
Enter anywhere. Trust the threads. Follow what calls.
Guiding Ethos
What shapes our world view.
Explore foundational understandings about life, relationship, interdependence, change, and the ways we understand our place within a larger living world.
Transition Patterns
Where are you in your journey?
Recurring patterns found across living systems, history, psychology, mythology, and lived experience can offer ways of recognizing what may be happening within profound change. Explore patterns that can help you locate yourself within transition and consider what they might illuminate in your own experience.
Evolving Stories
What's alive right now?
Follow people, communities, and initiatives navigating consequential change now. Across fields and places, these stories make visible what people are learning, trying, restoring, reimagining, and creating—and where new possibilities are already taking shape.
Ways to Engage
Bringing discovery into life and practice.
Explore questions, practices, conversations, gatherings, and other invitations for bringing what you discover into your own life and communities.
Illuminating Inspiration From Our Wider Community
Meet some of the people, ideas, resources, and reflections that contribute to the commons.
Follow them throughout the site or begin exploring here.
