Valarie Kaur
Valarie Kaur is a civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, faith leader, and author rooted in the Sikh farming communities of California’s Central Valley, where her family has lived for more than a century. Her grandfather gave her Sikh wisdom through stories and songs that showed the way of the sant-sipahi — the sage-warrior — […]
One Spirit Learning Alliance
Founded in 2001 by Rev. Diane Berke and Rev. Joyce Lichtenstein in the aftermath of September 11th, One Spirit Learning Alliance is a New York-based interspiritual education community whose vision is to inspire and advance the evolution of sacred consciousness in service to individuals, communities, and the earth. Rather than asking seekers to choose one […]
The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) is the largest Indigenous peoples’ network in the world — a membership organization representing 135 communities across 21 African countries, from hunter-gatherer peoples of the Kalahari to nomadic pastoralists of the Sahel. Founded in 1997, IPACC works at the intersection of human rights, environmental justice, and the […]
The Water Remembers
The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis is a moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a family’s fight to preserve its legacy. For members of the Yurok Tribe in California, the Klamath River and its salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a […]
Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is a recognized global visionary who has spent more than 40 years committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, empowering women and girls, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. The breadth of her work ranges from working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to guiding refugees in Ethiopian camps to protecting threatened Amazon […]
YES!
YES! (Youth for Environmental Sustainability), founded by two teenagers in California in 1990 Ocean Robbins & Ryan Eliason, connects, inspires, and collaborates with change-makers to build thriving, just, and regenerative ways of life for all. The organization provides co-creative brave spaces for people gifted with compassion and a desire to make a difference—people looking for […]
The Wellbeing Project
The Wellbeing Project, conceived in 2014 as a co-creation, works to integrate inner wellbeing and social change, recognizing that cultural and systemic transformation requires the effort, insight, and input of different groups woven into a larger whole. Today over 60 institutions worldwide co-create the Project, including leading nonprofits, intermediaries, foundations, universities, media groups, venture capital […]
Alliance for Relational Repair and Mutuality
The Alliance for Relational Repair and Mutuality invites people across race, class, and gender into the slow, courageous work of healing the wounds left by chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and systems that divide us. The organization nurtures practices and tends relationships that restore dignity, belonging, and interconnection, serving as a hub where relational repair circles […]
Thriving Communities
Thriving Communities creates documentary films that elevate community solutions to the challenges of our times, telling stories about “common people doing uncommon work for the common good.” Born from the joy and inspiration that founder Jerry Millhon found in storytelling while serving as Director of the Whidbey Institute in 2012, the organization produces two to […]
Disaster as a Springboard for Thriving Resilient Communities
This article, published in December 2013 by the Society of Organizational Learning’s Reflections Magazine, explores what happens when catastrophe fundamentally shifts the world we know. On March 11, 2011, the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and radiation leak devastated northeastern Japan. In the aftermath, people from throughout the country began to gather not just to […]
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. […]
The Myth of Amor and Psyche
Psyche is a mortal woman of such extraordinary beauty that the goddess Aphrodite grows jealous and sends her son Eros (Amor) to make Psyche fall in love with something unworthy. Instead, Eros falls in love with Psyche himself and arranges for her to live in an enchanted palace, visited by him only in darkness—she is […]
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 […]
Building Resilience
Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery by Daniel P. Aldrich examines why responses to disaster recovery vary greatly in ways not explained by the magnitude of catastrophe or amount of aid provided. The difference between resilience and disrepair, Aldrich shows, lies in the depth of communities’ social capital. The book highlights the critical role […]
Flow Genome Project
Flow Research Collective brings together award-winning academics, artists, special operations commanders, professional athletes, Fortune 500 business leaders, and experts dedicated to peak performance, building world-class training programs on peak performance, optimal psychology, and leadership. The organization charges a premium for world-class trainings while open sourcing content for free, helping people make better sense of their […]
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 […]