by Amanda Reeves | Aug 17, 2022 | Field notes
How do you usually listen? Listening is a thing you do all the time. But have you thought much about the way that you listen? Otto Scharmer’s work in Theory U gives us 4 different levels of listening. Each level has it’s place. Practice listening at each...
by Amanda Reeves | Aug 16, 2022 | Field notes
Scenarios of potential futures are most interesting when they move beyond the utopia / dystopia binary, and describe futures that don’t feel good or bad. Instead, they feel… interesting. Rather than paint a picture of a future we want or do not want, they...
by Amanda Reeves | Aug 15, 2022 | Field notes
As a futurist, I talk a lot with people about how to notice and respond to uncertainties. It’s kind of my thing. We usually unpack uncertainty as a hypothetical possibility in a workshop setting. We step back, consider the situation from multiple angles, and...
by Amanda Reeves | Aug 14, 2022 | Futures 101
The future never actually arrives. Instead, it unfolds into the present. How? It is a dance choreographed by the intersection of trends and events, the potential and constraints of the present moment, and how we make sense of and respond to these. Options and order...
by Amanda Reeves | Aug 9, 2022 | Futures 101
There isn’t a singular, pre-determined future stretching out ahead of us. In fact, ‘the future’ doesn’t actually exist. What we describe as ‘the future’ is really just our own projections of what we think the future will be. When you have...
