Change your story.

Change what’s possible.

Our Work

We help leaders and organizations that are rooted in community create emergent, transformative systems change through ongoing participatory processes. These include discovering new possibilities through Re-Storying; building relationships; regenerating communities after disaster; deepening participatory skills and practices; and developing programs and initiatives.

Our Approach

Our purpose is to help you understand the stories you are living in now and help you imagine what else is possible.

Through Re-Storying, our Principles, and methodologies, we help leaders and organizations that are rooted in community create emergent, transformative systems-change through ongoing participatory processes.

About Us

For more than 20 years, NewStories has been helping people step into stories of new possibilities. Our own understanding of what this means has evolved. We have organized ourselves around a fundamental belief:

We don’t live in the world, we live in our stories about the world. When we change our stories, we change what’s possible.

Elements of the NewStories Ecosystem

Transformative
Kinship Circle

The Transformative Kinship Circle is a generative ecosystem that nurtures authentic relationships and fluid collaborations between and amongst social value organizations and funders globally to advance the next paradigm of life-affirming interdependence.

NewStories

The learners and teachers, coaches and consultants, explorers and activists that make up NewStories are committed to integrating the elements of the ecosystem to create the lives, communities, and organizations we want for future generations, now.

Practices.org

Practices.org is a robust collection of resources discovered and used in our work with people and communities. We will be bringing forward both stories of places NewStories has worked and the practices and strategies we have used for that work.

Great
Transition Stories

The Great Transition Stories website showcases the larger, often invisible, stories of our cosmologies, our history, and our biology that can help us sense-make and way-find in these challenging times. It is a virtual hub and resource treasury that has been developed in response to the realization that our world is in a Great Transition.

Transform
Media

Transform Media is a new venture to connect our NewStories community with the people who have spent years developing deep experience helping people, communities, and organizations transform. It will be a space of knowledge-sharing and skill building, as we bring forward the work of authors and other content creators from around the world.

YOU MUST GIVE BIRTH TO YOUR IMAGES.
THEY ARE THE FUTURE WAITING TO BE BORN.
FEAR NOT THE STRANGENESS YOU FEEL.
THE FUTURE MUST ENTER YOU LONG BEFORE IT HAPPENS.
JUST WAIT FOR THE BIRTH, FOR THE HOUR OF NEW CLARITY.

- RAINER MARIA RILKE -