by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 16, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
We tend to talk about futures and foresight as analytical capabilities: the ability to scan signals, build scenarios, or anticipate change. But I’m increasingly convinced that one of the most important futures skills is something else entirely: collective...
by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Most futures work still treats imagination as something that happens in the head. But the brain doesn’t work that way. What neuroscience shows, and what experiential futures make tangible, is that imagination is embodied. We think with our whole nervous system, not...
by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 6, 2023 | Notebook, To export
I’m thinking about funerals. Specifically, funerals for glaciers. In 2019, there was the Okjökull glacier funeral in Iceland. In 2021, a ceremony was held for the Clark glacier in Oregon. And this week, on 5th September 2023, a funeral ceremony took place for the...
by Suzanne Whitby | Aug 10, 2023 | Notebook
Stories and their ability to transport Have you ever listened to a story and become so immersed in the twists and turns and the lives of the characters that you forget about the world around you? This is the concept of narrative transportation. In Experiencing...
by Suzanne Whitby | Aug 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
One of the things I appreciate most about Questions Are the Answer is how strongly it links questioning to humility. Hal Gregersen suggests operating under the assumption that we don’t know things we need to know, and that this isn’t a weakness, but a strength. It...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jul 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
We’re wired to treat uncertainty like a threat. Not metaphorically. Neurologically. Ambiguity scrambles our attention, tightens our thinking, and makes us reach for quick answers. But futures work isn’t about replacing uncertainty with certainty. It’s about building...
