by wg | 4 weeks ago | Communication
Do you ever have “Blonde Moments”? In Jacinda Ardern’s book, “A different kind of power”, she tells a story. Pregnant, in power, and balancing crazy hormone changes and the exhaustion of carrying a baby and running a country, she recounts...
by wg | Oct 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
I’ve been in futures workshops that looked impressive from the outside. There were beautifully designed slides. Sophisticated frameworks. Post-its covering every wall. People left energised, saying it was “inspiring” or “eye-opening”. And then: nothing really changed....
by wg | Sep 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
I use walks as a futures method because they tend to surface hope, but not the kind that relies on reassurance or positive thinking. Optimism often skips too quickly to conclusions. It smooths over tension. It looks for signals that “things will work out.” In futures...
by wg | 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 wg | 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...
