Great viewing and reading suggestions from New Story change makers who are on the edge of or living a new story. Contact us with your recommendations and we will add relevant titles to the list.
Documentary Films…..
A New Story of the People, Charles Eisenstein
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
An Enquiry into A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World – Findhorn Foundation
Disturbing the Peace, A Film by Reconsider
HUMAN, A Film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Journey into the Future: A Better World is Possible, Guy Dauncey
On Separation: a Theory from the Final Chapter of Insanity, Mattias Olsson
Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein
Tashi and the Monk: a social experiment
The Green Beautiful (La belle Verte)
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, David Korten
The Inner Peace Revolution, Uplift Connect
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Charles Eisenstein
This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein
Walk With Me: On the Road with Thich Nhat Hanh
wetheuncivilsed, a life story – a film about finding home, Peter and Lily Sequoia
Article titles…..
Joanna Macy pamphlet, Greening of the Self
Kosmos magazine Summer 2014, lead article ‘Ecosophy’ by Elisabet Sahtouris
Book titles…..
Bayo Akomolafe:
And We Shall Dance with the Mountains
The Boy Who Stayed Outside
Robert Atkninson:
The Story Of Our Time: How We’re Becoming A Global Community
Carolyn Baker:
Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis
Thomas Berry:
The Dream of the Earth
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
Clinton Callahan:
Radiant Joy Brilliant Love: Secrets for Creating an Extraordinary Life and Profound Intimacy with Your Partner
Directing the Power of Conscious Feeling: Living Your Own Truth
Rachel Carson:
Silent Spring
The Sense of Wonder
Nicolya Christi:
2012: A Clarion Call: Your Soul’s Purpose in Conscious Evolution
A New Story for Humanity: New Self – New Story – New Life – New World (forthcoming)
Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World: A Handbook for Conscious Evolution
David Christopher:
The Holy Universe, A New Story of Creation for the Heart, Soul and Spirit
Ram Dass:
Be Here Now
Be Love Now
By His Grace
Grist for the Mill
Guy Dauncey:
Journey into the Future: A Better World is Possible
The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming
Drew Dellinger, Thomas Berry and Matthew Fox:
love letter to the milky way: a book of poems
Dieter Duhm
Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love
Charles Eisenstein:
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
The Ascent of Humanity: Civilisation and the Human Sense of Self
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism)
Riane Eisler:
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics
Tomorrow’s Children
Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life
Duane Elgin:
Awakening Earth
Promise Ahead
The Living Universe
Voluntary Simplicity
Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew:
Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Paradigm
Scilla Elworthy:
Pioneering the Possible: awakened leadership for a world that works
Louis Fox:
Sustainable [R]evolution – Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide
Alida Gersie, Anthony Nansen and Edward Schieffelin with Charlene Collinson and Jon Cree:
Storytelling for a Greener World: Environment, Community and Story-Based Learning
Robert and Christine Gerzon:
‘Human Earth Awakening’ – A New Story for a New World (download free ebook)
George Green:
Handbook for the New Paradigm
Thich Nhat Hanh:
Is Nothing Something? (Thay answers children’s questions)
No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
Love Letter to the Earth
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
The Art of Communicating
Niki Harré:
Psychology for a Better World: Strategies to Inspire Sustainability
Thom Hartmann:
From the Heart of the World
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Lessons Ancient People Have For Us
The Prophet’s Way
Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker:
Return to Joy
Polly Higgins:
Earth is our Business
Eradicating Ecocide
I Dare You to Be Great
Boysen Hodgson:
The New Macho: a credo for the new masculine
Rob Hopkins:
21 Stories of Transition
The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
The Transition Companion: Making your community more resilient in uncertain times
Barbara Max Hubbard:
Conscious Evolution
Giles Hutchins:
The Illusion of Separation
The Nature of Business
Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson:
Ecovillage Living, Restoring the Earth and Her People
Kosha Joubert:
Beyond You and Me: Inspiration and Wisdom for Community Building
Kosha Joubert and Leila Dregger:
ECOVILLAGE: 1001 ways to heal the planet
Naomi Klein:
This Changes Everything
Christof Koch:
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
David Korten:
Agenda for a New Economy
Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth
Satish Kumar:
Small World Big Ideas: There’s an Activist in All of Us and You Don’t have to Shout to be Heard (Conscious Living)
Soil Soul Society: a new trinity for our time
You are Therefore I am: A Declaration of Dependence
Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu:
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Frederic Laloux:
Re-Inventing Organisations
Chris Laszlo and Judy Brown:
Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business
Karen Litfin:
Ecovillages — A Leading Edge for Sustainability
Joanna Macy:
World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent Times
Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone:
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy
Joanna Macy, David R Loy and Jonathan S Watts:
Lotus in the Nuclear Sea: Fukashima and the Promise of Buddhism in the Nuclear Age
Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown:
Coming Back To Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
Joanna Macy and Norbert Gahbler:
Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World
Michael Margolis:
Believe Me: a Storytelling Manifesto for Change-Makers and Innovators
George Marshall:
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change
Alastair McIntosh and Matt Carmichael:
Spiritual Activism
Bill Mollison:
Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual
David Nicol:
Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation
Inger Lise Oelrich:
The New Story: Storytelling as a Pathway to Peace
Anna Oposa:
An Introduction to Climate Change for Filipino Youth
Parker J. Palmer:
Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
Marko Pogacnik:
Gaia’s Quantum Leap
Jonathon Porritt:
Capitalism as if the World Matters
The World We Made: Alex McKay’s Story from 2050
Pierre Pradervand:
The Gentle Art of Blessing: A Simple Practice That Will Transform You and Your World
Daniel Quinn:
Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
Kate Raworth
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Peter Russell:
From Science to God
The Consciousness Revolution
The Global Brain
Waking Up in Time
Elisabet Sahtouris:
A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us
EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
Gaia’s Dance: The Story of Earth & Us
Quincy Saul:
Truth and Dare: A Comic Book Curriculum for the End and the Beginning of the World
Lisette Schuitemaker:
Alight
E.F. Schumacher and Jonathon Porritt:
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
John Seed, Joanna Macy and Pat Fleming:
Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings
C. Otto Scharmer:
Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges
C. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer:
Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-system to Eco-system Economies
Andrew Simms (Editor):
There was a knock at the door: 23 modern folk tales for troubling times
Robert David Steele:
Open Source Manifesto
Per Espen Stoknes:
What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming
Stephanie S. Tolan and Sannie Kirschner:
Change Your Story, Change Your Life
Chogyam Trungpa:
Shambala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
Jack Zimmerman and Virginia Coyle:
The Way of Council
Daniel Christian Wahl:
Designing Regenerative Cultures
Ralph White:
The Jewelled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning
J Kim Wright:
Lawyers as Peacemakers, Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law