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Thursday, 4 Jun 2015 “Apartheid is not an old issue that died in the nineties”, Kosha tells us. “Apartheid means ‘to be in a state of separation’” and it is still with us as many live in a state of separation from nature. “When Nelson Mandela was released from prison and Apartheid was falling apart, Kosha started to transition […]
Tuesday, 2 Jun 2015 “A black line, a network of hidden connections, links all the sacred places on earth. If that line should be broken, calamities will ensue, and this beautiful world shall perish. Destroying a forest here, draining a swamp there might have dire consequences across the globe. The Kogi shamans cannot perform their work of maintaining the […]
Monday, 1 Jun 2015 Private sector could help close the expected shortfall in emissions reductions necessary to stop 2C of global warming warming, suggests Unilever CEO Paul Polman at climate and business summit in Paris. Read the full story by Tom Levitt….
Saturday, 30 May 2015 “Right from the very beginning I was lucky”, Lesley Quilty tells us. But after the sudden unexpected death of her father, her family and the happy life she had known, all fell apart.
In this compelling story of going “from victim, to survivor, to thriver” she tells us how she overcame the damage that she […]
Friday, 29 May 2015 New Story Summiteer, Andrew White, at Findhorn’s first-ever TEDx Event…. Andrew turns our normal understanding of leadership on its head. We are often told that to be successful we need to stand for qualities such as belief (so that we can convince others), growth and making things come to life. However, in order to be […]
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Thursday, 28 May 2015 “My great, great grandchildren ask me in dreams… What did you do while the Earth was unravelling? Surely you did something…” So begins Drew Dellinger’s compelling performance of ‘Hieroglyphic Stairway’ from his award-winning book of poems, ‘love letter to the milky way’. Drew is a spoken word poet, professor, activist, and the founder of Poets […]
Tuesday, 26 May 2015 “We live amidst shifting tectonic plates in our mythological, philosophical, scientific, cultural and socio-economic models. Core to this shift is a questioning of who we are, why we are here, and how we live sustainably. The dominant materialistic perspective of life as purposeless with organisms as separate entities struggling for survival in an innately competitive […]
Monday, 25 May 2015 Peace activist Arun Gandhi reflects on the enduring wisdom of his grandfather, the Indian spiritual and political leader Mahatma Gandhi. Read the full interview by Danielle Batist….
Sunday, 24 May 2015 Beloved community elder, poet and Steiner teacher, Auriol de Smidt, recites her original poem to usher in the New Story at the New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future which took place at the Findhorn Foundation and Community in September 2014. For more Summit video clips subscribe to our New Story YouTube channel….
Saturday, 23 May 2015 Singer-songwriter, Rebecca Maze, performs ‘Green Dragon’ live at the New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future, which took place at the Findhorn Foundation and Community in September 2014. Rebecca is now known as Boe Huntress and you can hear more of her music on her website. For more Summit video clips subscribe to […]
Friday, 22 May 2015 “We are writing a different story than the one we’ve been led to believe is inevitable.” Generation Waking Up is igniting a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world. This video is part of the Generation Waking Up Experience – called a ‘WakeUp’ for short – a multimedia educational […]
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Thursday, 21 May 2015 Ex-CIA spy, Robert Steele, presents his vision of a New Story which has ‘Open Source Everything’ as its basis. We need to create a world brain – a deliberative dialogue world brain – and become citizen intelligence ‘Minutemen’. We are at the end of an era in which lies can be used to steal from […]
Wednesday, 20 May 2015 South African-born Kosha Joubert shares about the power of building community as an integral, intimate part of new story creation. We do not need our future to be defined by the current mainstream and by the advertising and media that are fed to us. We can design our own pathway to the future. By coming […]
Tuesday, 19 May 2015 The New Story Summit, week in review, captures the journey of the collective psyche through the lens of our interpretive touch-drawing participant, Deborah Koff-Chapin, who created divinely-inspired images of our time together during each day of the summit. Touch Drawing is a simple yet profound process. Paper is placed over wet paint. The pressure of […]
Monday, 18 May 2015 Linda Kabaira and Mugove Nyika are leading participatory educators who are transforming life in Zimbabwe for future generations to come. Mugove Walter Nyika is a Permaculture and Environmental Education specialist with international experience of working with governmental and non-governmental organisations to build resilient school and college communities. His mission is to use his life skills, […]
Saturday, 16 May 2015 Join thousands at the Fuji Sanctuary and around the world who are celebrating the inauguration of The Fuji Declaration. The East West Celebration starts by greeting the sunrise at the foot of Mount Fuji followed by the Symphony of Peace Prayers 2015 where the official inauguration will be celebrated. The Fuji Declaration is an international […]
Friday, 15 May 2015 With the convergence of multiple crisis on the planet, the UN has a bold, provocative strategic vision of the world in 2030. It’s a vision of an integrated sustainable development, within planetary boundaries, engaging thousands of stakeholders from all over the world and leaving no-one behind. Member states within the UN are realising that there […]
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Thursday, 14 May 2015 “
Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance. “An anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade Davis has been described as “a rare combination of […]
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Alixa Garcia, spoken-word artistic activist, interweaves spoken-word, lyricism, multimedia theatre and pan flute beat boxing to bring voice to the stories that go untold. She is one half of artistic activist duo, Climbing PoeTree. Alixa was filmed at the New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future, which took place at the Findhorn Foundation […]
Tuesday, 12 May 2015 The most difficult challenge facing humanity is not devising solutions to the energy crisis or climate crisis or population crisis; rather, it is bringing stories or narratives of the human journey into our collective awareness that empower us to look beyond a future of great adversity and to see a future of great opportunity. What […]
Monday, 11 May 2015
Dr. Karambu Ringera, founder and executive director of International Peace Initiatives, works with women in Kenya who have HIV and AIDS as well as children who have lost their parents to the disease. Through her work she has realised that the situations and circumstances that we perceive as problems are actually opportunities to remember our […]
Saturday, 9 May 2015
Drew Dellinger, founder of Poets for Global Justice, studied cosmology and ecological thought with Thomas Berry who coined the term New Story. Filmed at Findhorn’s New Story Summit, Drew shares his understanding of the power of story as it relates to social justice, ecology, cosmology, education and activism. The new story is our new understanding […]
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Friday, 8 May 2015 New Story Summiteer, Tiffany Stephens, shares about an inspiring project that emerged from the New Story Summit: Sacred Sites, initiated in conjunction with the European Citizens Initiative for the Rights of Nature. A sacred ceremony is planned for COP21 in Paris in December and an international petition is in the pipeline with Avaaz to bring […]
Thursday, 7 May 2015There is no one story. There are many stories. The essence of the New Story is that we are moving from the idea of disconnection and separation to a state of reunion and reconnection. We are all interrelated and interdependent. The old story is the old scientific, technological, individualistic paradigm. The new story for Satish, […]
Wednesday, 6 May 2015Julien Troussier of The Forest Trust builds bridges for change between campaigning NGOs and companies. By working where the tension exists between the two entities, Julien sees real potential to influence companies to change their practices and channel their power to do good in the world. Julien was filmed at the New Story Summit: Inspiring […]
Tuesday, 5 May 2015 On April 23 2015, 70 young people from 10 countries across Europe, representing thousands of European youth, gathered to form the Young European Co-operators Network. The launch by Cooperatives Europe, the European region of the International Cooperative Alliance, took place during the 2015 Cooperatives Europe General Assembly in Paris. Here is an excerpt from their […]
Monday, 4 May 2015 “With global population set to pass 8 billion in just a few years there are some tough choices to be made. “I think HG Wells had it right when he said that we are in a race between education and catastrophe. For the environmental educator, David Orr, this race will be won when we create […]
Sunday, 3 May 2015Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, shares her experiences of travelling to war zones, promoting and learning about peaceful resolution to conflict. Jodie has learned that the only recognisable feature of hope is action. She encourages us to speak up and speak our truth. We need to be loud and we need to […]
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Wednesday, 29 Apr 2015 “Odds are, your mobile phone is less than two years old. Today’s economy is built on a “fast turnover” principle. The faster we replace our gadgets the better – not only our phones, but most items we consume. “This leads to a staggering inefficiency in the way we manage the Earth’s resources, with increased pollution, […]
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2015Better, Not More is a short film from EDGE Funders Alliance: Engaged Donors for Global Equity, who are amplifying the Justice Funders movement for a Just Transition to a collaborative economy…. “As we assess the current state of our world and consider together the elements that are essential to a ‘just transition’, and ultimately, a […]
Monday, 27 Apr 2015“We, the uncivilised, are claiming the right to write our own story. We are digging up the stories of our soil: • we seek stories to inspire • we seek stories to unite • we seek stories to rouse the heart, and activate the soul.” Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story is a grassroots documentary film project […]
Monday, 27 Apr 2015 “We live in a time of rapid transformation. Some say we are on the verge of a great shift in human consciousness. Growing numbers of people are looking at the way they live, the way humans operate on the planet, and deciding that we must change our course. “Once a paradigm has shifted, there is […]
Sunday, 26 Apr 2015Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is not your average 14-year-old. Dubbed the ‘Anti-Beiber’, he is mobilising his army of teens in 25 countries to demand greener policy from our world’s leaders. Xiuhtezcatl is the youth director of Earth Guardians, a nonprofit that encourages young people to connect and become involved in environmental activism. In 2013 he received the […]
Saturday, 25 Apr 2015 “A holistic approach to the economy is necessary to avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, according to a new report by the Capital Institute. “To avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, the world needs to move beyond the standard choices of capitalism or socialism. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday by US […]
Friday, 24 Apr 2015David Spangler, spiritual teacher and long-time friend and mentor of Findhorn, addresses the need for a new story of the subtle worlds and also for story itself. David has been communicating with the subtle worlds for nearly 70 years and sees the collaborative partnership between humans and the denizens of the subtle worlds as an […]
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Thursday, 23 Apr 2015“How many of us have a sneaking suspicion that something pretty fundamental is going wrong in the world? We keep hearing about the potentially devastating consequences of climate change but we are pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every single year. We are forced into economic crisis after economic crisis and the only people […]
Wednesday, 22 Apr 2015 “The only way to change the world is to change the story. And many of us now long for a new story, one that will restore to the earth its lost divinity and reconnect our souls to the sacred within creation, a story that will save our planet. Some have even already begun to articulate […]
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2015 “We are faced with two choices. The first is to continue our conventional agricultural practices that will ensure agriculture remains a large piece of the climate change problem. The other is begin to explore and implement agroecological practices that can turn agriculture into part of the solution. Surely, the choice is easy. We live in […]
Monday, 20 Apr 2015Naresh Giangrande, co-founder of Transition Towns Totnes, tells the story of transitioning to a more responsible, inspiring way of living and being sustainably on the planet. We are at the knife edge of a historic moment of choice, facing global disaster on one hand and extraordinary and deep change on the other. Which of those […]
Sunday, 19 Apr 2015Jonathon Porritt reveals his optimistic vision of the new story from the point of view of his avatar, Alex McKay, who time travels back from the future to address Findhorn’s New Story Summit. The year is 2050. Alex’s story charts the key events, technology breakthroughs and lifestyle revolutions that make the world what it is […]
Saturday, 18 Apr 2015 “In the year that world leaders will meet three times to set goals for sustainable development, planetary boundaries can frame our choices. “We live in an era of great contrasts. Never before have we faced catastrophic environmental risks on a planetary level, and seldom has there been such potential for innovation to allow us to […]
Friday, 17 Apr 2015 Findhorn Fellow, evolutionary biologist, visionary and author of Conscious Evolution, Barbara Max Hubbard, illustrates how new worldviews emerge and social change occurs, and how a new awakening is beginning from the ground up, in this excerpt from Chapter 1, The Awakening of Humanity. “Cultural creatives are defined by a set of values, a new lifestyle […]
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Thursday, 16 Apr 2015Charles Eisenstein, genre-defying social philosopher and countercultural intellectual, sees the New Story as a call to act in service to the new, towards a deeper revolution, offering each other a different kind of logic where the logic of the mind and the logic of the heart no longer conflict. Charles was filmed at the New […]
Thursday, 16 Apr 2015 “People from every walk of life — scientists, artists, people of faith and so on — are already looking for a “new story” of human possibilities, beyond the narrative that has led to so much materialism, greed and violence. In our search, we can hear the voices of countless ancestors who have already seen this […]
Wednesday, 15 Apr 2015 “Which side of the tipping point are we on? Between the longing for a golden age that never was and the building of a revolutionary age, which yet may be? “It is a relevant historical coincidence that our year of the tipping point coincides with the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. […]
Tuesday, 14 Apr 2015 “Activists and civil society change agents from all over the world are increasingly starting to realise that the climate crisis, the inequality crisis, and many other issues so close to activists’ hearts will not come anywhere near getting resolved if we do not change the economic system. Within all diversity of movements like the Commons, […]
Monday, 13 Apr 2015People from all walks of life are coming together in community to explore alternative ways of living and being. The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) beautifully reflects the intent to live more sustainably and harmoniously on the planet. It consists of a constantly expanding network of intentional communities and ecovillages bridging all cultures and continents. In […]
Friday, 10 Apr 2015 “Peace is no longer a utopian ideal, says Peace in the City director Ella Matheson, who explores the idea of a government department focused solely on promoting peace and harmony. “The conversation is about a new story, the possibility of a United Kingdom Peace Department with a cabinet-level office to advise the prime minister on […]
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Wednesday, 8 Apr 2015 What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it? “You really can’t grasp the new story — as a society — and continue to live the way we live. First you begin to move toward more voluntary simplicity, which is, literally, reducing your dependence on money. You start doing […]
Saturday, 4 Apr 2015“Growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is occurring. It is time to explore genuine alternatives and new models — The Next System.”
Friday, 3 Apr 2015Creating new narratives will be challenging. Jini Reddy reports from the Findhorn New Story Summit. This article was first published in Resurgence & Ecologist, issue 289 March/April 2015. The New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future took place at the Findhorn Foundation and Community in September 2014. How can we create a world […]
Friday, 3 Apr 2015 The Wangan and Jagalingou people proudly celebrate their shared origins and connection with the land. This is the story of their journey, their community initiatives and how they maintain their cultural integrity. “The Wangan and Jagalingou people are the proud Traditional Owners and Native Title Applicants of a vast area of land in central-western Queensland. […]
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Wednesday, 1 Apr 2015Findhorn Fellow, Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of ‘Conscious Evolution’, explains how our current crises are not the precursors of an apocalypse but the natural birth pains of an awakened, universal humanity.
Tuesday, 31 Mar 2015 “There is a profound shift underway in our cultural story, sense of purpose and organizational logic. Deep and complex influences within our own psyche, our collective consciousness and in the structures pervading organizations are being challenged to radically reshape. At its heart, this paradigm shift challenges the very way we view the world and ourselves. […]
Monday, 30 Mar 2015Aya Chebbi, a young Tunisian leader of great courage and audacity, speaks passionately about rewriting history to make it right for future generations. What we call ‘Arab Spring’, Aya’s generation calls a ‘Revolution of Dignity’. Her 4-minute speech was given at the UN Women event, 10 March, ‘Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for […]
Sunday, 29 Mar 2015 Ordinary people from around the globe are challenging the mainstream narrative… “This week, for the second time in a row, the World Social Forum (WSF) gathered in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab spring. During the five-day event, 70,000 delegates from more than 4,000 organisations representing 120 countries discussed a wide range of issues and […]
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