One of the best catalysts for the imagination is action. A good practice creates bridges between the real and imagined, the known and unknown, inviting us into the liminal space where things begin to shift. Sorry, I got a bit behind with posting these! The church also became home to many Transition activities such as their popular Repair Café. I am just back from a 2 week speaking tour of Luxembourg and France, meeting Transitioners, giving talks and promoting the book ‘Et Si’. when we’re scared of getting things ‘wrong’. They basically advocate steering your thoughts to good and happy outcomes rather than gloomy and hopeless ones. But places like these where you don’t have to buy or pay anything have reduced in number as former public commons have been enclosed by private ownership. This is despite the failure of governments to act quickly enough and especially at a grass roost level where individuals can make a difference. And as this brave and powerful book argues, our very survival may depend upon it. It serves to remind us that every decision we make is not just ours to carry, but will be left for seven generations to come. Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. --This text refers to the. We have also covered Rob’s fantastic notion on this blog - quoting Bologna’s Office of Civic Imagination which runs six city labs that help “understand how citizens and government can work together”.

Amsterdam in Holland was recently confirmed as the first ‘Doughnut City’, using the model to underpin its economic development strategy. And if there was ever a time when we needed that ability, it is now. Other factors, such as our interactions with social media and digital technologies, the declining amounts of time we spend outdoors, the decline of play in our culture and the sidelining of imagination in our education system also all have a role to play. Maybe there were some clever authors involved in the big book…. 4TH SECTOR, BEHAVIOUR, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISM, COMMUNITY, From “What Is” to “What If”: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want, But this Guardian article (or listicle) on ten great ideas from the book, this account of the “Inquiry” state of one of our Collaboratories, We have already profiled Rob’s story about how Liège in Belgium. Places designed for connection, creation, collaboration and chance encounter. . In this passionate exploration, Hopkins asks why imagination is in decline, and what we must do to revive and reclaim it. It was founded in 1997 to help people with mental health difficulties find their voice through the arts. Asking good ‘What If’ questions: there is much exploration in ‘From What Is to What If’ about the art of asking a good What If question, as well as examples from around the world. Imagination on a local level seems to be the only sensible way to sprout new seeds that will help us get out of this mess. Filmed at Hawkwood’s Seed Festival in Stroud, which celebrates courageous climate leadership, creative expression and innovation in partnership with our natural world. Try again. Unable to add item to List. Two minutes silence is taken to allow those present to contemplate not only the next seven generations of human life, but all of interconnected life on earth that we must act in awareness of. From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want, Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3). Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of The Transition Handbook, The Transition Companion, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, 21 Stories of Transition and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want. The intention is not to filter anything and through this you begin to notice what might otherwise go unnoticed. Great practices also cultivate mental and emotional space and some even create places in the process, thereby ticking all the boxes for imagination. His passionate optimism is incredibly infectious and inspiring to be around and the book offers plenty of what a colleague of mine calls 'stones in my shoes' - nuggets of information, difficult questions, windows onto other ways of doing things that just won't leave me alone. Read this book and join the battle to preserve our planet." The facilitator of the exercise then asks you to find yourself standing in front of someone and share the answer to a question that the facilitator offers that might relate to how you’re feeling or a question that has something to do with the reason you’ve all gathered together. And it’s this noticing that helps you intervene and take action on any unhelpful thoughts, instead reminding yourself of the various positive affirmations you have written for yourself. In my book, I try to sketch out what it would look like if there was a National Imagination Act in which every public organization that spends public money would have to figure out how to set up the circumstances under which the imagination can flourish. where you’re invited to mill around a room in between each other, noticing who’s there with you. This item has a maximum order quantity limit. We’ve been exploring the question of attention and digital ethics since the start of A/UK - see these on see this on Franciois Cholet and Tristan Harris, a Designers’ Oath from James Williams, the attention merchants, the “hellven” of a too-dominant digitality. Considering the tumultuous time we have experienced since 2018’s Special Report on 1.5 Degrees, and the associated breakout of climate anxiety and in some cases, grief, that have followed, it speaks volumes on how uplifting and inspiring that I found this book.

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