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 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 […]
The Clean Money Revolution
Part memoir, part insider’s guide, and part manifesto for anyone ready to ask where their money spends the night, this book by Joel Solomon with Tyee Bridge traces Solomon’s own journey from the son of a shopping mall developer in Tennessee to a pioneering impact investor who has backed more than 100 early-stage companies focused […]
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 Sisyphus
Sisyphus was a king of Corinth, legendary for his cunning—so clever and deceitful that he cheated death itself, twice. The first time, he tricked Thanatos, the god of death, into chaining himself up, so that no mortal could die until Ares intervened and freed him. The second time, Sisyphus talked his way back from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Death and Dying
This now controversial book, On Death and Dying by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, is still one of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century. It grew out of her famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and […]
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald S. Miller emerged from Reb Zalman’s personal mission to confront his fears about death and infirmity. Through a vision quest, study with Sufi masters, Buddhist teachers, and Native-American shamans, he found a way to turn aging into the most […]
Man’s Search for Meaning
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is a psychiatrist’s memoir that has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945, Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on […]
Survived & Punished
Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national abolitionist organization led by survivors of domestic and sexual violence who are criminalized for defending their lives. The organization, a project of the non profit Allied Media Projects, emerged from the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign (2013–2017), a global effort to free Marissa Alexander, a Black mother of […]
International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA)
Founded in 2015, the International End-of-Life Doula Association is a member-based nonprofit dedicated to meeting the non-medical needs of the dying by raising awareness of end-of-life doulas’ roles and providing education to support compassionate deathcare with the vision that “all individuals have accessible, equitable, and compassionate deathcare that holistically affirms one’s humanity and supports end-of-life […]