Analog Version: What If the Park Dreamed Back?
In this analog Spiral Lab, participants began with billion-year-old rocks as companions, listening to the park as both witness and author. Together, they named griefs and gifts, released patterns of harm, and imagined futures worth inheriting—from truth-telling and repair today, to healing and belonging across generations.
Composting What No Longer Serves: Organizational Lessons for a Time of Reckoning
In a moment of cultural rupture—where authoritarianism is rising, polarization deepens, and public trust frays—organizations across sectors are grappling with a hard truth: many of our strategies, structures, and assumptions no longer serve us. The world is changing, but the ways we work often aren’t keeping pace.
From Input to Interbeing
If regenerative participation is to become a meaningful part of foresight, we must expand our understanding of what foresight practitioners do—and how we show up.
We are not extractors of insights or deliverers of predetermined scenarios. We are gardeners, composters, and stewards of living processes. Our work is less about directing movement and more about cultivating the conditions for emergence, belonging, and transformation.
From Input to Interbeing
Despite good intentions, many public engagement processes remain transactional, time-bound, and symbolic. They ask people to show up, speak up, and then move on. These forms of participation tend to reinforce the illusion that listening has occurred, while leaving little space for transformation or relationship.
The Power of World Café: Fostering Engagement and Innovation in Charlotte
During the World Café Neighborhood Board Retreat, participants engaged in three rounds of structured conversations. Each round focused on critical questions about neighborhood engagement, community priorities, and collaborative solutions.