New Story Stewards
Overview
New Story Stewards is a year-long formation community for people seeking to live and lead well during a time of profound transition. It is designed for those who sense that familiar ways of responding to social, ecological, and civic challenges are no longer sufficient, and who feel drawn—often without full clarity—toward a deeper way of being.
The work explores how to inhabit the space between an ending story and one still forming. Rather than offering answers about what comes next, the program invites participants into sustained practice, reflection, and community as they learn how to remain grounded, attentive, and faithful in uncertain times.
New Story Stewards is not a course or training. It is a shared formation journey, held within a committed learning community.
Who This Program Is For
This program is for people who recognize that the present way of life is unraveling and who are seeking guidance on how to live during this transition.
Participants often include leaders, stewards, and people who carry responsibility in their work or communities, and who are willing to engage regular spiritual practice and communal learning over time. What matters most is not role or background, but readiness for discipline, reflection, and sustained engagement.
This program is not designed for those seeking quick clarity, practical solutions, or certainty about what the future will bring.
What Participants Engage In
Participation is structured but simple, emphasizing consistency over intensity.
Participants gather monthly online for extended sessions that include silence, teaching, poetry, story, small-group reflection, and shared inquiry. The program concludes with an in-person gathering in the Seattle area focused on synthesis, ritual, and welcome into the broader community.
Between gatherings, participants commit to daily spiritual practice, regular reflection, and weekly meetings with an accountability partner. These practices are central to the work and are designed to support integration into daily life.
The emphasis throughout is on lived engagement rather than conceptual understanding. Learning unfolds through repetition, relationship, and attentiveness over time.
The program follows a consistent rhythm across the year. Each gathering builds on what has come before, and each introduces practices meant to be lived with between sessions.
The depth of the work happens not primarily during meetings, but in the weeks between them — through practice, reflection, and conversation. Community provides continuity and accountability as participants learn to remain present in liminal space.
The final gathering brings the year’s work into conversation as a whole and marks the transition into the ongoing life of the community.
How the Program Unfolds
Time Commitment
Twelve monthly online gatherings (2.5 hours each)
One in-person gathering in the Seattle area at the conclusion of the program
Daily spiritual practice of the participant’s choosing
Weekly meetings with an accountability partner (minimum 20 minutes)
Ongoing reflection between gatherings
Participation requires regular attendance and follow-through. This is not a casual commitment.
What This Program Is Not
New Story Stewards is not a strategic planning process or a problem-solving framework. It does not offer techniques for fixing systems or managing decline.
It is not therapy, coaching, or self-improvement, and it does not promise outcomes, transformation, or personal breakthroughs.
The program does not claim to know when or how a New Story will arrive. It simply offers a way of standing well in the space between stories.
Gift Economy
There is no fee to participate in the New Story Stewards program. It is offered within a gift economy and supported by those who choose to give.
As you consider whether this work may be meant for you, you may find it helpful to sit with the following questions over time:
Are you hungry for a community that will support you in living and leading well in a time of chaos and confusion?
Are you drawn toward deeper guidance on how to remain connected to Spirit amid uncertainty?
Are you open to a way of leadership grounded less in control and more in presence, trust, and responsibility?
Are you willing to make a heartfelt commitment to regular attendance, shared practice, and disciplined engagement over time?
In your gut, do you sense that you are ready for this journey, even without clarity about where it will lead?
Clarity does not come from answering these questions quickly. It emerges through attention, patience, and trust.
Questions for Discernment
Discerning Participation
This work is not for everyone, and discernment takes time. If, after spending time with this description, you feel drawn to explore whether this program may be meant for you, you are welcome to reach out through the Contact page.
Clarity comes through attention, not persuasion.
If, after spending time with this description, you feel drawn to explore whether this work may be meant for you, you are welcome to reach out through the Contact page.