We’re Looking for Your Story!
Are you working to create sustainable community? Are you part of the social justice movement that is changing our world? Are you an entrepreneur, artist, mother, creative visionary – anyone who is working to create peaceful and dynamic solutions within yourself, your community and the world? If so, we would like to hear your soulful story (Click here for writer’s guidelines).
Project Life Stories (Santa Fe) and Lively ‘Hoods (Austin) are gathering stories that will be part of a book series entitled The Soul of an Emerging World. The first books will focus on the “world changers” who are working to restore and heal the planet, working to heal their own wounded hearts and working to create and manifest a world that is good and abundant for all.
The Soul of an Emerging World project seeks personal and life stories from visionaries, known and unknown. Your story needs to be emotionally rich and experiential based on your own life experiences. The more intimate, the better. The key is authenticity and simplicity. We seek to connect visionaries of all types through our commonality – a soul-filled journey through our fears, our doubts, our joys and our triumphs. The “vision” of each contributor is merely an important endnote to each person’s inspiring story of how they came to be where they are now. We hope to offer a way for (1) the world-changer/cultural creatives to recognize each other not through traditional, cleverly-crafted marketing speak or intellectual adroitness, but through the beauty of poesy, lyricism, authenticity and vulnerability, and (2) those who are now ready to make the leap themselves into world-changing work to be encouraged and inspired by these deep, meaningful stories.
Our emphasis is not on contributors’ vision at the forefront, rather, we seek to explore the exquisite poetry of our collective tribulations and triumphs, our dark nights of the soul alongside our moments of transcendent epiphany, our sweet, naive bumbling alongside our dancing nimbly in balance, manifesting our visions in the world. With that in mind, please note that that the stories chosen for inclusion in the books will feature an end piece with a succinct paragraph of the author’s vision, a bio and website link.
This is an amazing opportunity to bring national and local attention to your vision, your work and your life. The flagship book, The Soul of an Emerging World will focus on stories from people based anywhere in the world and 10% of proceeds from the flagship book will benefit Bioneers, a conference/forum for connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a broad progressive framework.
For writing assistance, contact Tanya@SoulofanEmergingWorld.com or Maggie@SoulofanEmergingWorld.com. For writing guidelines, click here. To submit your story, click here.