Ashes to Resilience
Ashes to Resilience: A Guide to Wildfire Recovery is a resource developed by NewStories and Regenerating Paradise, drawing on their experiences to offer starting points for communities navigating wildfire recovery. Recognizing that what needs to happen is shaped by local culture and geography, the guide supports communities in their own journey of recovery and Re-Storying. […]
Regenerating Paradise
Regenerating Paradise is a nonprofit organization formed in the wake of the Camp Fire with a mission “to weave the social fabric that regenerates us.” The organization defines regenerating as a process of rebuilding and recovery that, as in regenerative agriculture, replenishes rather than depletes. Looking to Ridge community residents for resources, Regenerating Paradise works […]
Two Loops
This excerpt from NewStories Founder Bob Stilger‘s book AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin? introduces the Berkana Two Loops model as a practical framework for understanding where we stand in times of profound systemic change. Stilger co-developed the Two Loops at a global gathering in Slovenia in 2002 and has […]
Becoming Gaia
Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation by Sean Kelly addresses our living in end times—climate chaos, accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse drawing the Earth community into a planetary near-death experience. Yet these end times also mark the threshold of a new planetary identity in the making. Drawing on scholarship from […]
Spiritual Midwifery
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin, originally published in 1976, introduced an entire generation of young women to the possibility of home birth and breastfeeding while breathing new life into the all-but-vanished field of midwifery. Now in its fourth edition, this classic book on home birth includes updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, […]
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
SisterSong is a Southern-based, national membership non profit organization dedicated to advancing reproductive justice by transforming the policies, systems, and cultural conditions that shape the reproductive lives of marginalized communities. Grounded in the leadership and lived experiences of women of color, SisterSong builds powerful networks to challenge intersecting forms of oppression that limit bodily autonomy, […]