Note to Readers
Websites
My home base is the nonprofit I founded in 2000. NewStories — www.NewStories.org
For this book, NewStories has developed a companion website — www.afternow2.newstories.org
Introduction
Books and Articles
Gersick, C. J. G. (1991). Revolutionary change theories: A multilevel exploration of the punctuated equilibrium paradigm. Academy of Management Review.
Stilger, B. (2015). 未来が見えなくなったとき、僕たちは何を語ればいいのだろう――震災後日本の「コミュニティ再生」への挑戦 – When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin? (Japanese). Tokyo: Eiji Press.
Tainter, J. A. (1988). The Collapse of Complex Societies. New York: Cambridge.
Wheatley, M. (2017). Who Do We Choose to Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity. Oakland: Berrett-Koehler: Oakland.
Chapter 1
Books and Articles
Arrien, A. The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary (1992). New York: HarperCollins.
McAdam, D., McCarthy, J. D., & Zald, M. N. (Eds.). (1996). Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Nonaka, I., & Nishiguchi, T. (2001). Knowledge emergence: social, technical, and evolutionary dimensions of knowledge creation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
Scharmer, C. O. (2009). Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Stilger, R. (2007). Enspirited Leadership: Landmarks for Uncertain Times. Available at www.enspirited.newstories.org
Stilger, R., & Dunford, A. (2009). Alive in Community. Available at www.alive.newstories.org
Websites
For from 2000 – 2011, much of my work was in partnership with The Berkana Institute where I served for five years as Co-President. Berkana was founded in 1992 by Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner Rogers after Meg wrote Leadership in the New Sciences — www.berkana.org
In 2000, Berkana, along with NewStories and PeerSpirit launched a global leadership initiative called From the Four Directors, which brought together a number of people using different approaches to support dialogue and conversation. Many of these people, with a great deal of leadership from Toke Moeller of Denmark, went on to launch a community and framework called Art of Hosting — www.artofhosting.org
Future Center work in Japan started at the Knowledge Dynamics Institute at Fuji Xerox in 2009 and after the Triple Disasters moved to a new corporation, FutureSessions Inc. — www.futuresessions.com
In creating Future Centers in Japan, KDI received substantial guidance and support from the Future Center Alliance and KDI hosted the global gathering of the Alliance in 2010 — www.futurecenteralliance.com
Early on with FutureCenter work in Japan, Fujitsu started to ask an amazing question: Whay can Fujitsu Do for People With Dimentia? See www.runtomorrow.jp/en/?lang=en.
Bob and his daughter, Annie Stilger Virnig, were invited to do the first ever father/daughter talk at TEDxTokyo in 2010 — bit.ly/TEDxTokyo2010-BobAnnie
Early this century, Maaianne Knuth felt called to start a learning center in Zimbabwe as a place for new possibilities as the country entered a period of great instability. Kufunda is amazing — www.kufunda.org
The Popular Center for Culture and Development started in Brazil almost 30 years ago when people said there must be a better way for our children to learn. For more than a quarter century it has practiced emergence with rigor — www.cpcd.org.br/
Chapter 2
Websites
In Japan, as well as all over the world, people have become intrigued with the idea that happiness might be a measure of progress — www.grossnationalhappiness.com
The KEEP at Kiyosato in Yamanashi Prefecture was the location for my early work in Japan in 2010 and 2011. More than a venue, it is a space of possibility that has given birth to many dreams — http://www.seisenryo.jp/en/index.html
Chapter 3
Books and Articles
Agerbeck, B., Bird, K., Bradd, S., Shepherd, J., & Stilger, B. (2016). Drawn Together through Visual Practice (1 ed.). Kelvy Bird.
Alexander, C. (1979). The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press.
Atleo, E. R. (2004). Tsawalk: a Nuu-chah-nulth worldview. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Websites
Many useful resources, including The Art of Powerful Questions, are available in the World Café Store: www.theworldcafe.com/store.html
BALLE is a thriving movement to support growth of locally based, independent businesses. https://bealocalist.org
There are now many efforts around the world which recognize waste as our most underutilized resource — http://www.upcyclethat.com
ETIC has been doing extraordinary work in Tohoku since immediately after the disasters — www.etic.or.jp
Appreciative Inquiry, developed by David Cooperrider from Case Western Reserve University in the 90s, is a powerful process used around the world to focus and amplify what we appreciate as a starting point for deep change —https://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu
Chapter 4
Websites
The idea of “transition” was advanced and popularized by the Transition Network — www.transitionnetwork.org
Chapter 5
Books and Articles
Lebow, V. (1955). Price competition in 1955. Journal of retailing. Available at www.newstories.org/food-for-thought/making-consumption-our-way-of-life
Stilger, B., Poutnik, S., Seely, K., & Patarroya, Z. (2017). Communities Report: Culture of Health Listening Tour. NewStories. Available at www.newstories.org/food-for-thought/communities-report-on-culture-of-health
Websites
The Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory is a unique venture which brings a number of initiatives across the US into relationship with each other — www.thrivingresilience.org
Chapter 6
Books and Articles
Kahane, A. (2012). Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Websites
A brief history of the Tilth movement is available at www.seattletilth.org/about/abriefhistoryoftilth. The YouTube Video of Wendell Berry and Bob Stilger from 1974 is available at bit.ly/wendell_bob_1974
Ten years ago, the Dinokeng Scenarios helped to make new possibilities in South Africa visible — www.dinokengscenarios.co.za
Nossa Sao Paulo is a brilliant example of how ideas and aspirations can be made visible — www.nossasaopaulo.org.br/portal/node/9639
The Institute for Alternative Futures has been a foundation for many futures initiatives for nearly 40 years — www.altfutures.org
This reality television show on how to build community with vision, energy and available resources had a galvanizing impact on South Africa —www.soulcity.org.za/projects/kwanda
The ABCD Institute was an early pioneer in the US in help people begin to look and build from their assets rather than simply being preoccupied by their deficits — www.abcdinstitute.org
In Japan, it was Jimotogaku – learning from the local area – that was the equivalent of ABCD. Working with what we have is a naturally occurring form — www.japanfs.org/en/news/archives/news_id027966.html
Started by young architects more than 20 years ago, Institute ELOS was where ABCD naturally occurred in Brazil — www.institutoelos.org
Chapter 7
Books and Articles
Macy, J., & Johnstone, C. (2012). Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We Are In Without Going Crazy. Novato, Calif.: New World Library.
Patton, M. Q. (2010). Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. NYC: The Guilford Press.
Scharmer, C. O. (2007). Theory U: Leading from the Emerging Future (1st ed.). Cambridge, MA: Society for Organizational Learning.
Snowden, D., & Kurtz, C. F. (2003). The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated world (Volume 42, No. 3). Available at www.cynefin.newstories.org/
Websites
The Presencing Institute is a powerful resource for those learning to be fully present to themselves and the world around us — www.presencing.com
The Process Works Center of Japan is a gathering point for people learning new ways to engage people around questions and possibilities that matter — www.jpwc.or.jp/english
Chapter 8
Websites
Miratuku is an important platform for social innovation in Japan — www.emerging-future.org
My blogs from Japan after the disasters, as well as other resources are featured at www.resilientjapan.org
For more information about jimotogaku — www.i-i-net.blogspot.jp/2009/02/jimotogaku-based-on-what-we-have-here-1.html
Safecast is the world’s most extensive open source radiation monitoring initiative — www.safecast.org
Chapter 9
Books and Articles
Harman, W. (1988). Global Mind Change: The Promise of the Last Years of the 20th Century. Indianapolis: Knowledge Systems.
Samuels, R. J. (2013). 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan (1 ed.). Cornell University Press.
Chapter 10
Books and Articles
Spretnak, C. (1997). The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Afterword
Books and Articles
Putnam, R. D. (2001). Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (1st ed.). Touchstone Books by Simon & Schuster.
Riesman, D. (1950). The Lonely Crowd. New Haven: Yale University Press.