By Nathan Young
It’s no secret that we’ve got bigger plans for the New Narrative then where we’re currently at. My dreams have always been to build out The New Narrative as a community—for companionship, mutual support, and personal growth—and also a space for collective action, to push new ideas and lifestyle options out into the world that can be more equitable, sustainable and fulfilling for all.
As crazy and uncertain as the world has been lately, this is also what I wanted to create the New Narrative for. We're in a moment where people are open to change, craving connection, and rethinking many of their preexisting paradigms for living. A lot of what we’ve been trying to do with the New Narrative was really made for a time like this.
I’m opening the call for people who have been regular speakers, volunteers, attendees, and contributors to the New Narrative in the past to take a step forward and get more involved. How can we work together to get your vision, talents, and message out there? What would you like to do?
There are so many talented people in our community that could offer something important. I’d like to take the focus off just me and open the doors to other people’s ideas too.
Do you have something to teach that could be valuable right now? Would you like to host a workshop, webinar, or even an ongoing series?
Do you have an idea for a new event series that you’d be interested in producing? Or would you like to help produce one of the existing event series we’ve already got going for The New Narrative?
What about creating a group for mutual support around a specific topic? This could be anything from writing, meditation, social justice, personal growth, relationships, health, or more.
Basically, there are a lot of options. I’ve got some of my own ideas that I might start filtering out, but I wanted to at least throw this out there to see if other folks have ideas too.
It’s all fairly open-ended at this point. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll work to refine what we might be talking about. But if this does inspire any ideas for you, let me know!
A couple of stipulations:
For now, anything we offer would have to be able to be conducted via Zoom or some other online format.
The essential partnership would be that the New Narrative could help bring an audience and provide some basic logistical support, but it would be up to you to develop workshop curriculums, pull together basic marketing materials, host the event, plan to follow up, etc etc. I’m happy to offer as much expertise as I can to help get things going as well. I just need to be mindful of my own bandwidth.
Anything we do would have to be "on-brand" with the New Narrative, which broadly includes creating conversations around difficult topics, connecting with our own personal stories, and moving the world or ourselves towards a “new narrative” that’s more equitable, fulfilling and sustainable for all.
If you’ve got an idea, I’d love to hear it. You can email me directly or submit an idea via the form below.
Ideally, we can start a conversation via email to make sure it’s a good fit and plan a Zoom call to coordinate further from there. We’ll see what we can make happen. I’ll follow up in the coming weeks with more specific plans from my end as well.
I hope you all are doing well and staying safe, healthy, and sane through everything that's going on! Hopefully this all interests you and we can talk soon. :)