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 what is being asked as familiar 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 shared rhythm of listening, practice, and reflection.
Formation Programs
New Story Stewards
A thirteen-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 practice in liminal space.
The New Story Community currently offers two formation programs:
Seven Foundational Qualities Community
A nine-month formation community focused on exploring seven foundational qualities that characterize the coming New Story. This program invites participants to live into principles that run counter to dominant cultural patterns and to consider how these qualities may take root in daily life.
Each program stands on its own.
Participants are encouraged to discern which, if any, aligns with their current season and capacity.
Beyond Formation
Completion of a formation program does not mark an end point. For some, it opens into ongoing forms of community life that support integration, action, and continuity over time.
These offerings are described elsewhere on this site and include spaces for:
Continued spiritual practice and mutual support
Discernment about vocation and response
Ritual recognition and communal belonging
Participation in these offerings is optional and discernment-based.
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. If you feel uncertain, trust that uncertainty. Clarity emerges through listening, not urgency.
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.