Dear friends, family, collaborators & community...
Welcome to 2022!
Narrative Futures Design
The new video course is live!
I know, I know, it's March already, but this past winter's months moved in winter time, and so here we are, with the first I4NW news of 2022 - and oh, is it good.
This year, I'm trying out shorter newsletters slightly more often (think actually once a month) - with one piece of news each, so it's easy for you to know what's happening over here at Index for the Next World, and to get involved / get access to each offering!
This month's news is particularly big and exciting: I have a new online course for you!
In partnership with the excellent facilitators and design thinkers over at Voltage Control, I just launched my new online video course, Narrative Futures Design. The course is available through the Voltage Control Elective Courses platform here, and if you enroll right now you get $50 off!
If you're a group facilitator, a leader of a team, collective, or small-to-medium company / organization, and you have an interest in expanding your group’s creative change-making capacities beyond business-as-usual, this course is for you.
Please share the link with your communities, check it out, and let me know what you think! And if someone signs up for the course based on your recommendation, let me know, and I'll send you a special gift :)
Narrative Futures Design: The Course In More Detail
What will happen in this course?
Participants will learn to utilize and facilitate “backwards design” skills to support their projects and teams; they will gain tools to promote emergent thinking and collaboration (rather than emergency/scarcity thinking), in order to access wide and unexpected futures innovation; and they will access and build neurological somatic practices for expanding beyond barriers and roadblocks that can appear in forwards design.
What are "Narrative Futures" tools?
Narrative Futures tools allow us to do backwards design, working from “inside a future” in which the problem is already solved! In this course, we’ll learn and practice tools for outside-the-box innovation and backwards futures-design, using story, creative practices, somatic tools, and design-thinking to expand the futures we design and create. Plus, you’ll learn skills for sharing these practices with your team or group. Create beyond apparent contradictions and perceived scarcity. Uncover the stories you’re enacting now, and the ones you actually want to embody, whether as an individual, a team, or an organization. Connect with your team and bring their dreams and offerings into the group ecosystem, and access wild and unexpected innovation, so that you can make the futures you imagine possible starting with actions and designs today.