Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, M.D., is the physician most responsible for bringing integrative medicine into mainstream awareness—and for insisting that the word “integrative” actually mean something. Trained at Harvard in biology and medicine, he spent years studying medicinal plants, traditional healing systems, and cultural approaches to health across the Americas and Africa before concluding what conventional medicine […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Domini: Insights
Founded by Amy Domini—widely recognized as one of the pioneers who proved that values-aligned investing could deliver competitive financial returns—this blog-style insights hub tracks the ongoing work of Domini Impact Investments across climate, community investing, ecological sustainability, human dignity, and corporate accountability. Domini began her career as a stockbroker in the 1970s and 80s, became […]
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 […]
Regenerative Economics
Regenerative Economics by John Fullerton transforms how we see the economy—and what’s possible—offering a science-based, hopeful path beyond crisis thinking with a regenerative model that works like a living system. Fullerton, an unconventional economist and founder of the Capital Institute who left a 20-year career as Managing Director at JPMorgan in search of deeper answers, […]
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. […]
Phoenix Rising From the Ashes
Origin of This Myth The phoenix is one of the oldest mythological symbols we have, and its origins are genuinely tangled across cultures. The deepest roots appear to lie in ancient Egypt, where the Bennu—a large sacred heron associated with the sun god Ra—was venerated at Heliopolis as a symbol of resurrection and the soul’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]