Quotable quotes
About futures, foresight, imagination, play, storytelling, experiences and more.
Futures work is not about predicting the future
One of the most persistent misunderstandings about futures and foresight is that it’s about prediction.
tiny mindful: In your hands
A tiny mindful tale about how the choices that we can make if we so wish.
tiny mindful: The joy of being bi-lingual
A tiny mindful tale about how speaking another language can get you out of tricky situations!
tiny mindful: Paradise and hell
A tiny mindful tale about how paradise and hell can exist in us all.
tiny mindful: The three fish
A tiny mindful tale about how our actions and behaviours can change our lives.
tiny mindful: The bag of joy
A tiny mindful tale about the wonderful Nasreddin and his weird but effective way to help a traveller discover joy.
tiny mindful: Half a blanket
A tiny mindful tale about dealing with life’s frustrations, the value of family, and how we view aging.
tiny mindful: Empty your cup
A tiny mindful tale about how full cups and full heads.
tiny mindful: The Lion Makers
A tiny mindful tale about how too much learning can sometimes cloud common sense.
tiny mindful: Truth and Story
A tiny mindful tale about the power of story.
Why the future is plural (and why that matters)
In futures and foresight workshops, participants often talk about THE future. Practitioners tend to insist on futures, plural.
The Work That Reconnects
Interesting for my facilitation work, work with groups, and in helping people think about climate and environmental disruption. The Work that Reconnects helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.
Look UP! That’s what I am taking from “Don’t look up”.
Some thoughts about the film, “Don’t look up”.
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Filthy cities with Dan Snow
Historian Dan Snow gets down and dirty the filthy cities of revolutionary Paris, medieval London, and industrial New York. No, not ancient, but interesting nonetheless! Episode 1: Medieval London https://vimeo.com/214645639 Episode 2: Revolutionary Paris...