Radical Kindness – the life-source of Partnerships
October 3, 2024
What’s going on in partnership working when we feel hesitant? How might radical kindness help?
Alchemy in Creative Futures – Be Prepared to be Wrong
September 25, 2024
What if our creative practices get in the way of purposeful social change? What if we’re – unintentionally – ‘othering’ the future? What if our belief in the power of future action, gets in the way of change today? How can we change our practice to be better in the light of this evidence.
The Stranded Assets of Us
October 12, 2023
We think of stranded assets as locked in oil and gas commodities. But what if we think about our own assets that are locked in. How can we reclaim them?
Intelligent Failure
October 9, 2023
Prof Amy Edmondson gave a talk about intelligent failure at the RSA on 26 September. Why we need to pay attention more and be curious. Lessons for our ‘future for work’.
Futures Practice Hour
August 7, 2023
Thinking about the future can be either so scary or seem so futile that we don’t ever do it in meaningful ways. When we look at the world around us, we assume we don’t have the power for change.
Futures tools don’t take these dilemmas away. But they offer us ways of working constructively with them.
Changing the Value Proposition for Co-Production
July 21, 2023
Co-production remains on the margins, not because we don’t care enough. Our policy systems don’t require it. But co-production is the natural state in which networks thrive, and healthcare can’t be fixed by hospitals and social care on their own.
On My Radar
May 19, 2023
Looking out for stories about how we connect, how we consume and how we destroy as part of our Futures workshop series. 3 stories piqued my interest this month.
Amidst the Fog
May 18, 2023
Working with uncertainty is unsettling. We all need points of reference. Futures frameworks can help us ‘read the compass’. Here’s 4 insights from our recent ‘Everyday Futures’ learning sessions.
Spring Media Review Images from Nature
March 30, 2023
Review of media for March. Stories that we need to help us move towards net zero. Why stories matter; and some of them. Stories that work with what we know about human behaviour: we need pulls towards what we want, not just stories of loss.
Three Questions for Three Horizons
March 29, 2023
Three Horizons is one of those simple Futures tools that works really well in making sense of complex issues. It can be used in the background,
The Innovation Blog: Using your wing mirrors
March 1, 2023
There’s a balance to be struck by all of us between working on the thing that’s in front of us, and building the foundations for
Working on the Difficult Stuff: March Practice Notes
February 27, 2023
Perhaps it’s not in vogue to write about the difficult stuff. But I’m always wrestling with work which, no matter how long I’ve been