by Suzanne Whitby | Aug 31, 2022 | Notebook, To export
TLDR: a short thought today about the power of doing something small and consistently versus the results of changing nothing at all. Apt in the context of climate change and how to tackle it. I came across this meme a little while ago (Google it – it’s...
by Suzanne Whitby | Aug 27, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
Wes Kao wrote a piece about“spiky points of view” a few years ago, and it got me wondering what a spiky point of view might be in futures facilitation. I think that, in futures work, a spiky point of view is not about provocation for its own sake. It’s about taking...
by Suzanne Whitby | Aug 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
One of the hardest parts of facilitating futures work is knowing when not to move the group on. There’s often pressure, explicit or implicit, to reach clarity quickly. To summarise. To decide. To produce something tangible that justifies the time spent. But some of...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jul 27, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
Many futures conversations fail not because people lack imagination, but because they’re trapped in “used futures”. These are inherited visions that feel familiar and inevitable. Changing the question when facilitating futures can be enough to change the future that...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jul 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
Jane Hirshfield tells a story about a man who travels far to ask a wise teacher a question. When he finally asks it, the teacher slaps him. The lesson, his students explain later, is simple: never surrender a good question for a mere answer. I think about this often...
