Community Life
Living the Work Over Time
The New Story Community is not merely a collection of programs. It is a living community shaped by shared practice, mutual accountability, and companionship over time.
While our formation programs provide structure and focus for a season, community life is what allows the work to continue unfolding more quietly, and for the long haul.
Community Life offers spaces for alumni to remain connected to the work and to one another as their lives, capacities, and callings change.
What Community Life Supports
Community Life within the New Story Community offers space for:
Continued grounding in spiritual practice
Ongoing spiritual formation into daily life and vocation
Ongoing discernment of ones gifts and calling
These offerings are not stages or steps. They are simply different ways of remaining in relationship with the work.
A Shared Orientation
All Community Life offerings are held with a common orientation:
An active “inner life”
Seeing the world through the eyes of oneness and love
Wise action born of discernment
Forms of Community Life
Community Life within the New Story Community includes several distinct offerings, each serving a different purpose:
Alumni in Action
supports alumni who feel called to inspired and practical action for the Common Good and who welcome on-going support and accountability.
Alumni Support Network
provides a simple, ongoing monthly gathering for alumni who wish to remain rooted in practice and mutual support over time.
All Alumni Gathering
offers an annual in-person retreat, that fosters renewal, reconnection and inspiration for alumni as they strive to live and lead well in liminal space
Each program stands on its own.
Participants may engage in one, several, or none at all, depending on their sense of calling and capacity.
Not a Path of Advancement
Community Life is not designed as a progression.
There is no expectation that participants move from one offering to another or increase their level of involvement. Some remain connected through quiet monthly support. Others feel called into action for a season. Some return annually for ritual and reconnection.
What matters is fidelity to practice.
An Invitation to Discern
Community Life offerings are described on their individual pages. Those descriptions are offered to support discernment, not to persuade.
Clarity comes through listening, not urgency.
The work continues as it always has: through presence, practice, and relationship.