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 […]
Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit
The Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit, developed by the Collective Imagination Practice Community (funded by JRF Emerging Futures and hosted by Huddlecraft and Canopy), offers tools and practices to enable people to imagine more hopeful futures. The toolkit supports work that pays attention to who gets to imagine, centers diverse imaginations, and cultivates a range of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This Is Your Mind on Plants
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan, #1 New York Times bestselling author, offers a radical challenge to how we think about drugs and an exploration of the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos surrounding them. Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—throwing the fundamental strangeness […]
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She has testified before Congress […]
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), specializing in integral ecology, environmental humanities, religion and ecology, integral theories and philosophies, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, archetypal cosmology, Romanticism and German Idealism. Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in […]
The Responsibility Process
The Responsibility Process is a behavioral science framework and the world’s first proven how-to approach for understanding, teaching, and taking personal responsibility. The framework helps people apply their innate leadership ability to face and overcome any challenge by operating in freedom, power, and choice—and encouraging those they lead to do likewise. The organization’s purpose is […]
Big Magic
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert explores the nature of creativity, encouraging readers to live a more creative and fulfilling life by embracing curiosity over fear. Gilbert shares her own experiences and wisdom, offering a blend of spiritual guidance and practical advice on how to overcome creative blocks, pursue passions, and find […]
Maps to Ecstasy
Maps to Ecstasy by Gabrielle Roth expands on the themes that have guided her work—ways of transforming daily life into sacred art. Roth’s teaching in movement has been described as a marriage of art and healing. Each chapter initiates readers into one of the five sacred powers necessary for survival and reveals the five life […]
What Is Art For?
What Is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art, examining art—including visual art, music, poetic language, dance, and performance—from a biobehavioral viewpoint for the first time. Dissanayake argues that art is a biological necessity in human existence and a fundamental characteristic of the human […]
Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project of the 501c3 Dancers’ Group, that celebrates disabled people, centered and led by disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority, and queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people. The organization’s work explores themes of disabled embodiment and the world around us, developing provocative […]
Skillshare
Skillshare has seen how the seemingly simple act of creating can be a force for growth, change, and discovery in people’s lives, working to inspire and multiply the kind of creative exploration that furthers expression, learning, and application. Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes for creative and curious people, on topics […]
IFS (Internal Family Systems) Institute
The IFS Institute is the official hub for Internal Family Systems (IFS), a transformative therapeutic model developed by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz. IFS is based on the idea that the mind is naturally multiple, composed of distinct “parts” or sub-personalities—including Protectors, Exiles, and a core Self that is compassionate, calm, and capable of healing internal […]