Understanding Change
A quote from Professor Richard Slaughter, ” The entire external world is constantly held together by interior structures of meaning and value”. From an integral or holistic perspective this helps us understand when when introducing a change that by making new rules or creating new structures to change behaviour is not always enough. We need…
Bitcoin and the future
People often discount the future because they think the future is unknowable. You cannot learn things you do not know. But that is a fallacy. The future is knowable in exactly the same way as next week’s appointment in your calendar or next week’s weather forecast. They can be known as a set of possibilities,…
Conscious Reflection
Conscious Reflection Simon Dehne, APF Emerging Fellow In the movie “Lucy’, the character is exposed to a new synthetic drug, that over the course of 24 hours allows her to access a 100% of her brain’s capacity (Wikipedia 2014). This intrigued me, because in some ways this was similar to a pathway that I had…
Why new housing estates and whole towns will go off grid : Renew Economy
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Five reasons why we should all learn how to do nothing
The idea that “doing nothing” is a skill to be learned might seem bewildering at first. Surely it’s just a question of stopping doing anything else? Yet that’s far easier said than done. It’s long been recognised – by everyone from the Buddha to John Keats – that “doing” can be a kind of compulsion,…
Imagining The Future
The future can only ever be imagined yet imagination is usually shaped & conditioned by our assumptions, beliefs, mental models and worldviews about the past, present & future. When we challenge the habits and worldviews that bind us with how we think, we immediately become alive to possibilities inherent to the present that had previously…
The Effect of Culture
A core purpose of of using a foresight process, is to expose how culture edits our experience of reality and frames possibilities and our CAPACITY to IMAGINE and act beyond its parameters. To expose this editing and its effects is a core element of using a foresight process. This is part of critical thinking, to…