Formation for Living and Leading in Liminal Space
The New Story Community offers a small number of formation programs for people seeking to live and lead well during a time of profound transition.
These programs are not designed to provide answers, strategies, or solutions. They exist to support formation — the slow, disciplined work of aligning one’s life with the designs of Spirit as familiar contemporary structures and certainties unravel.
Each program is grounded in spiritual practice, communal reflection, and sustained engagement over time.
Many people arrive here sensing that something essential is shifting — in the world, in their work, or in how they understand their place within it — even if they cannot yet name what that shift requires.
A Common Foundation
All New Story programs share several commitments:
They are spiritually grounded and oriented toward the wisdom of Creation and the Creator
They emphasize practice over theory and formation over instruction
They require regular participation, accountability, and personal discipline
They operate within a gift economy and carry no participation fees
Participants are not asked to master content or demonstrate expertise. They are invited into a two-fold process: first, the daily discipline of nurturing an inner Spiritual life and second, engaging in an outer life of action that is informed and inspired by an their inner life.
Formation Programs
New Story Stewards
A twelve-month formation community for people seeking to live and lead well during a time of systemic decline and uncertainty. The Stewards program provides extended structure, depth, and accompaniment for those willing to commit to sustained practices, both spiritual and practical; while in liminal space.
The New Story Community currently offers two formation programs:
Seven Foundational Qualities Community
A nine-month formation community focused on exploring the seven foundational qualities that characterize the coming New Story. This program invites participants to live into these qualities that run counter to dominant cultural patterns and to consider how these qualities serve as harbingers of the New Story
Each program stands on its own.
Participants are encouraged to discern which, if any, aligns with their current season and capacity.
The programs described here are not designed to persuade or recruit. They are offered as invitations to discern.
This work requires willingness to live without clear answers, to engage regularly in spiritual practice, and to be held accountable within a community of trust. It is not appropriate for everyone, nor is it intended to be.
If you feel drawn, take time to read the individual program descriptions carefully and sit with what they ask of you and if they speak to your heart and Soul’s desires
Discernment, Not Decision
A Note on Commitment
New Story programs ask for more than interest. They ask for presence.
Participants are expected to attend all sessions, engage consistently in practices between gatherings, and honor the communal agreements that make formation possible.
Those expectations exist not to exclude, but to protect the integrity of the work.
The programs of the New Story Community exist to support people willing to stand in the space between stories — not to escape it, resolve it, or manage it, but to live faithfully within it.