collective dreaming

“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1

Dreaming is about expanding our minds beyond the culture of white supremacy, and the perfectionism, hyper-individuality, rushedness, and passiveness it sees as normal. It asks us to see our connections to each other, and to tend to and grow those connections to build structures outside of the tables that were never built with care in mind.

we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.

History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread

Paradoxically, the most reliable method to envision and plan for futures, isn’t just studying and extrapolating scientific facts, historical developments, psychology and demography, but by building stories beyond our wildest imagination.

ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital

What does strategic dreaming look like? What is the material link between spirituality and strategy? I think it changes from person to person and like you said, access and relationship to spirituality is different for everyone. I don’t think we are necessarily required to engage in spiritual practices to build a foundation for our organising but I

There isn’t only one kind of person that can imagine what a better world could look like, whether it’s fictional or not