Our Core Team

Using her experience as a learning scientist, neuroscientist, dancer, and dharma practitioner, Zanette invites the work of designing for life from a place of joy. Through embodied experiences that reveal and connect, Zanette activates teams and community leaders as they co-create specific new habits with the power to make visionary aspirations into reality. The practices of our daily lives are the key to changing our world toward resilience— Zanette’s two decades of work with Indigenous learning communities have taught her that values alignment, embodiment, and deep integration are keys to transformation that lasts.

Relationship to place and ecology, relationship to kin and community, and relationship to self and shadow are vital elements that inform how each of us walks upon the Earth. Bringing to life new patterns for relationship, resilience, and regenerativity is the work that inspires Zanette’s multifaceted dance with living systems design.

Yve is owner/principal of an independent research and evaluation consulting company, Praxis Associates LLC. She collaborates with nonprofits, community-based leaders and government agencies to use data and reflection to think critically about their work and their results in order to continually build effective strategies and programs for organizational and social transformation. Because social and environmental change agents work in complex and dynamic systems, Yve integrates tools and approaches to supporting and studying social innovation.

Allison Joseph is a passionate storyteller, change-maker, illuminator, and seeker. She specializes in crafting creative narratives and communication strategies that honor, uplift, and connect communities. Her approach is rooted in participatory, equitable, and empowering methodologies, engaging individuals as co-designers and leaders in the curation and sharing of their own stories. Through her work, she champions the voices of marginalized communities, ensuring that their stories are not only heard but also celebrated.

Ultimately, Allison hopes to continue supporting non-profits and mission-driven organizations in enhancing their impact through compelling, innovative, and socially-conscious communication strategies and programs.

Bob Stilger founded New Stories in 2000. He now serves as the Co-Director of NewStories where he directs the Services Work that NewStories offers and is responsible for overseeing the structures, such as this website, that help NewStories to run smoothly.

Since the mid-seventies Bob has worked with people, communities and organizations to help them unlock hidden potential and to step into the new stories that are possible in their lives. He is a facilitator and dialog host and a strategic systems designer. Bob is also writer, a listener and a storyteller who has worked across North America and around the world. As a PhD researcher, he helps people make sense and find meaning out of their own direct experiences of our chaotic times.

Lynnaea's NewStories' work comes out of the longing for humanity to step out of old stories of who and what we are to come into greater wholeness as individuals and into a conscious and compassionate relationship with Earth and all life. Her current work is curating NewStories to illuminate and disseminate new stories and practices for a life-affirming future. When not writing or speaking, she engage with small collaborative teams to strengthen, support and synergize the burgeoning new stories movement through convening, hosting, and facilitating social change

Michele has been bringing her sense of beauty and order to the NewStories family of websites for almost 20 years and now has expanded her role to support multiple NewStories endeavors. Before diving into a technology career, Michele was a geologist where she developed a deep love of nature. Along with her husband Steve, she has led small groups on desert camping trips and loves to introduce people to both the vastness and intimacy of that landscape. She never stops being awed by the diversity of all things - plants, animals, rocks, but particularly the similarities and differences between people and cultures of the world. She has traveled to many countries including India, China, Morocco, Guatemala and much of western Europe.