narrative change
Dreaming asks me to train my attention to constantly critique the white imagination, to be disenchanted by it, bored of it - to ask of something beyond its violent limits. Dreaming asks me to re-educate myself on its radical potential.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Communal Dreaming
Stories are not just things that we tell as individuals. Communities can tell stories too. And it is when communities come together to start telling new stories about what their future could be that I start to get really excited. It is something that many Transition groups around the world do – bring people together to facilitate a collective
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
TL:DR — It is impossible for organisations to “demonstrate their impact” if they work in complex environments. Asking them to do so requires them to create a fantasy version of the story of their work. This corruption of data makes doing genuine change work harder because it is difficult to learn and adapt from corrupted data.
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🛗✨The Nexialist #0133
𖦹 Healing collective narratives is an act of communal and ecological resilience. The stories we pass on from generation to generation shape our behaviors, and our shared world.
What narratives are you practicing right now?
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instagram.comowing to the fact that behind the many interconnected problems of the metacrisis there is a deep ideological problem (i.e., a lack of unified narrative), metamodernism can be defined as a new collective value system1 that incorporates, contextualizes and transcends all previous value systems while resolving the conflict between them in an
... See moreAlex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
If spitting horrifying facts at people changed minds and built movements, we would have overthrown the capitalist system long ago, because the facts have always been on our side.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
The Boomer generation was dealt with outstandingly good economic cards. We’re living in a different world now, but the stories we tell ourselves, the goals we chase after, and the ideals we compare ourselves to—e.g. a steady career trajectory—still often come from a time that is now increasingly seen as an anomaly. It’s time to move on!