Lynnaea Lumbard, PhD, is Co-Founder of Great Transition Stories, a living commons illuminating archetypal patterns of change that help people recognize where they are in threshold moments, understand this isn’t chaos but transformation, and see viable futures already being built by those working with living systems principles. She is also Co-Founder and Board Chair of NewStories, a nonprofit that works alongside communities, organizations, and leaders navigating disruption and profound transition—strengthening the relationships, learning, and collaborative capacity needed for regenerative futures to emerge.
A transformational psychologist, wilderness guide, ordained Interfaith minister, and evolutionary leader, Lynnaea has dedicated her life to personal and cultural transformation through archetypal story, ceremony, circle, and creative community, focused on changing our individual and collective story into a more holistic, compassionate, and collaborative vision of ourselves. For over thirty-five years, she has guided groups in spiritual psychology and conscious evolution, serving boards, community gatherings, and social networks through facilitation, conference design, sermons, and inspirational talks. She gives her time, talent, and treasure to support new story storytellers, community weavers, catalytic philanthropy, and collaborative ventures dedicated to wellbeing and a vibrant future.
In the early 1970s, Lynnaea was catapulted into the just-birthing world of the human potential movement, training as a practitioner of Hoffman Process, Reichian Therapy, NLP, psychosynthesis, psychodrama, gestalt therapy, voice dialogue, conscious evolution, depth psychology, and council. Since the mid-1970s, she has been a seminar leader in spiritual psychology and conscious evolution. In the early 1980s she became a Director of the Institute for the Study of Conscious Evolution in San Francisco. From 1986-96, she co-founded and directed Temenos Associates, a national workshop company offering consciousness intensives, ongoing trainings in enneagram, voice dialogue, and dreamwork, and 12-day desert retreats for Awakening the Heart, Embracing the Shadow, and Opening the Third Eye.
From 1995-2005 she served as minister and board member for All Season’s Chalice Church in Boulder, Colorado, developing and sustaining a spiritual community offering seasonal celebrations at the StarHouse, a twelve-sided Steiner-inspired ceremonial building. In 1995, she co-founded Naos Foundation with her husband, Rick Paine, guiding wilderness quests in the Utah Canyonlands and co-creating a four-year Mystery School based on the Native American Medicine Wheel, integrating body, soul, mind, and spirit through the changing seasons of life.
Turning toward the wounds of our collective psyche, her vision became bringing the archetypal patterns that govern individual transformation to the processes of cultural healing. Her NewStories work comes out of the longing for humanity to step out of old stories of who and what we are to come into greater wholeness as individuals and into conscious and compassionate relationship with Earth and all life. She convenes, hosts, and facilitates social change workshops and gatherings, funding key projects for a whole systems paradigm shift toward a collaborative, compassionate, creative future. She has served boards including the Threshold Foundation, the Tipping Point Network, and Opus Archives and Research Center at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where she created grant programs to mine the depth psychological and mythological archives in support of a New Mythos.
She lives with her husband, Rick Paine, in the land of ferries on either side of the Salish Sea: Whidbey Island, Washington and Cortes Island, British Columbia.
