In his book Questions Are the Answer, MIT professor Hal B. Gregersen argues that breakthrough thinking rarely comes from having better answers. It comes from asking better questions. Better questions are the kind he calls “catalytic questions”. These are...
In times of geopolitical instability, rapid technological change, and overlapping crises, it’s increasingly hard to make confident claims about what regions or countries will look like five or ten years from now. And yet, confident predictions persist. You still hear...
Wes Kao makes a blunt but helpful point: students don’t owe us their attention. The same is true for participants and futures facilitation. Participants don’t owe us belief, engagement, or imagination just because we’re holding the marker or running the workshop. If...
We often approach the future by looking forward: imagining scenarios, mapping trends, projecting change. But sometimes, a future becomes more accessible when we approach it from the other direction. I’ve been thinking about the idea of an annual review, not as a list...
Some thoughts on Mel Robbins’ “Let Them” theory and how we can apply it to climate communication. I’ve recently finished reading Mel Robbins’ new book, “The Let Them Theory”. When it comes to climate communication and co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures, it feels...
