Emerging Collaborations
Transform Media is currently in collaboration with master practitioners about the work they have been doing and the learning they want to share.
Perhaps not surprisingly, all of these master practitioners are close friends, colleagues, and kin of NewStories. We have worked with all of them for decades and have been part of each other's journey. They are a natural place to begin the work of Transform Media.
Maaianne Knuth founded Kufunda Learning Village more than 20 years ago as Zimbabwe began its descent from the being the breadbasket of Southern Africa with the finest medical and education systems in Africa. Kufunda was created to help villages find a new way forward in a time of collapse.
Ai Sanda and Kenshu Kamura were the core force behind the CoCree movement in Japan. For more than 10 years they have been developing a system that brings people together at different levels of scale to co-create the world they want - now. Their work is an exemplar of building a self-organizing system that releases the individual and collective creativity of people committed to honoring the capacity to partner with the earth in creating a regenerative future.
Lynnaea Lumbard, co-founder of NewStories, has worked with the deep transformative power of story all of her life. She knows in her bones what the story is, why it is important, and how it is a key to transformation. Part of her work at NewStories has been the creation of our Great Transition Stories initiative. With that website ready for a complete relaunch, she is turning her attention to what she wants to say and teach about the power of story in these tumultuous times.
Tenneson Woolf has spent the last quarter of a century convening and hosting what we at NewStories now call Transformative Kinship Circles. He has used circle practices, based largely on the work of Christina Baldwin, to help groups of people across North America come into deep relationship and trust with each other in order to find new pathways forward.