[Kate Leftin]

In order to help people utilize their imaginations in service of a desirable future, we are planning a 2 hour workshop designed to help people ground themselves in the present, build connections, and stretch their imaginations towards a sensorial experience of the future we could co-create together. This project is hosted by Kate Leftin, Claudia Menasche and Kathryn Korfonta and the outline of activities is below:

• Open networking with suggested discussion topics (20 minutes)

• Intros and opening script, how it relates to antidotes to toxicity and ecological collapse or repair (10 minutes)

• Sound bath (30 minutes)

• Break into small groups (2 minutes)

• Imagination warm up: 30 circles (3 minutes)

• Break into different small groups and do future visioning exercise (15 minutes to group up and do exercise)

• Discuss experiences (5 minutes)

• Prompts on how we can move towards this future today. (15 minutes)

• Is there any work currently in the space that we can build on?

• Are others doing similar work that we can collaborate on?

• How do our skills contribute to the future we’re envisioning?

[Kate Leftin]

There are several additional initiatives that have emerged creating space to share stories, reflections, and imagine a healthy ecological future. Below are some examples:

-Rob Hopkins – Founder of the Transitional Towns movement; argues that the practice of imagining the future in a vivid and sensorial way generates a deep longing for a future that galvanizes action to bring it into existence.

– Love Letters to the Future – PJ Manney and Laura Faye Tenenbaum focus on dismantling outdated, harmful cultural myths and replacing them with healthier narratives for the future.

–Presencing Series 2026 with Regenerative Futures Labs – A six-session journey that offers a pathway from inspiration to action; It allows individuals to make sense together, knowing that they are not alone, and provides frameworks and tools for application in one’s own context.

-As posted in an earlier reply, the Solarpunk movement is a movement of artists creating visions of a better future.

– Kim Stanley Robinson Ministry for the Future https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ministry-for-the-future-a-novel-kim-stanley-robinson/2b809daf36f1fccf – A near-future novel about a UN agency fighting climate change through radical policy and economic transformation, told through interwoven human stories across the globe.

The Capital Institute, nRythm, and RegenIntel fellowships are all bringing people together to discuss questions of what a regenerative future might look like.

[Kate Leftin]

Hi Alexi,

I love this idea, and as you posted on our project post, we are very aligned in our work. It would great to talk more about how we can collaborate. I love the idea of the dollhouse – are you thinking this will be an art display for people to interact with?

[Kate Leftin]

I love this idea and it reminds me of the concept of living shorelines, but taken even further. It would add so much resilience to coastal cities!

[Kate Leftin]

This is a great idea. I love that it inspires people to uproot their lawn by showing how the alternative can be beautiful.

[Kate Leftin]

I love the tactile experience of encountering the toxicity, which brings people in direct contact with the experience that we are not separate from the pollution we create.

[Kate Leftin]

Hi Alexi! Thanks for sending this on and it is great to see alignment in our work. We will review this as well and follow your work. 🙂

[Kate Leftin]

Thank you for these resources Rachel!