When Disaster Comes Home
As the Spokane Complex Fire threatened his home community, the founder of NewStories discovered that 50 years of disaster work doesn’t make the fear go away—it just tells you what to do next.
Growing Something Real
Growing food is a small act with a long reach—a return to relationship with the land, with our bodies, and with the systems that actually sustain us.
Meg Wheatley on Compassion Without Aggression
Taking our place in this time as Warriors for the Human Spirit: Meg Wheatley on freeing ourselves from ego, wielding compassion fiercely, and accepting that we are always, in some quiet way, sad—and that this is not a problem.
Two Kinds of Intelligence
Tarzan swings from the branches with speed and force. Jane Goodall sits on the forest floor and belongs. The kind of intelligence we’re building into AI will shape the future of life on Earth.
Re-Storying the Ruins: Connection Dissolves Despair
What communities rising from disaster can teach us about building the new: it’s an insider’s job, and relationship—and patience—is the strategy.
When We Gather, Something Awakens
An invitation to remember that we are always gathering, always in ceremony—and that true connection is never far from reach.
A Map for Navigating Change
The map that shows you exactly where you are when the old world is dying and the new one isn’t yet born—and why that in-between space is exactly where you need to be.
The Thirteenth Faerie
I have a confession to make. To you, dear reader, and to everyone I’ve worked with over the past decade to grow NewStories and the very idea that we, as humanity, can create a new story for our next stage of evolution.
Opening Eyes, Minds, and World Views One Powwow at a Time
The massive voice of the drum circle called out to us before we even stepped into the building. My little granddaughters instinctively began tapping their feet to a rhythm they hadn’t known lived within them. The drums pulled us forward, and the vibrant regalia made our eyes wide with wonder. I could see their worldviews expanding in real time.