by Amanda Reeves | Nov 29, 2022 | Field notes
How can play help build our resilience and ability to adapt to massive challenges like climate collapse? Last week I had the pleasure of playtesting a new game with the crew from Amble Studio exploring that question. It takes a planetary crisis and zooms in to see how...
by Amanda Reeves | Nov 22, 2022 | Field notes
What does it take to lead change in uncertain times? This week begins with facilitating a 2 day deep dive into change leadership. We start off with a guided tour of different models and theories of change, then explore ways we can greet resistance to change with...
by Amanda Reeves | Nov 15, 2022 | Field notes
If the future doesn’t actually exist, what is it? According to my friend and collaborator Liam Mayo, the future is an emotion. It’s a feeling we experience when we look around and consider what’s possible. I fell in love with foresight because it...
by Amanda Reeves | Oct 11, 2022 | Field notes
We all have things we’d like to do, but never quite begin. In the last few months I’ve had a lot of firsts: First design and testing of a game First creation of a digital product, The Future Does Not Exist First set up of a podcast from scratch...
by Amanda Reeves | Sep 27, 2022 | Field notes
Change happens all the time, in all the different spaces of our lives. In my former life as a change lead and coach, helping people come to terms with change was as much part of the job as planning, implementing, and sustaining the change itself. As a futurist, I work...
by Amanda Reeves | Sep 20, 2022 | Field notes
Last week a bunch of us playtested my very first game Greetings from Polakvale and we had a blast! I was (let’s be fair – still am) equal parts excited and intimidated by the enthusiastic response people had to joining the playtest and their experience....
