Possibility Studies: A Manifesto

“The Emergent Future” instead challenges us to “ think transformationally, act transitionally ” to manifest futures-empowered landscapes of care, empathy, reconciliation, and love in our organizations, governments, and social entities, allowing us to align with much healthier expressions of our biological, psychological, and sacred experiences

What if imagining and even engaging with the impossible has actually become a necessity? In the current landscape of geopolitical events, climate change, and other accumulating societal challenges, it seems that we are stuck in our inability to perceive and respond to emergence. The call for urgency, the awareness that technology is changing expone

The thought that keeps me awake at night is that the further we get into the big challenges of Now – economic inequality, climate change, the very real risk of the collapse of many of the key aspects of the economy we depend on, mass migration and so on – the less able we are to imagine a way out of them.

What do these troubling statistics and that ‘tangled mix of economic, social and emotional problems’ have to do with imagination? Absolutely nothing if you look at our current political and cultural priorities. But absolutely everything if you look at how the brain works, how the best conditions for the imagination can be cultivated, if you’re inte