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Futures Lab with Convergence
November 23 @ 9:00am – 1:00pm
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Koinonia HallWhat Is A Futures Lab?
While none of us can see the future of institutional religion, we can use our imaginations to pilot a preferred future. To fail to do so risks being colonized by imaginations incongruent with our vision and values today. As activist and futurist adriene maree brown notes in her article titled “Murmurations: Stewarding the Future,” in YES! Magazine, “we are living in a world imagined by ancestors…who didn’t believe in an abundant earth and our collective power to steward it. It is time for us to imagine beyond the current oppressive construct.” Imagination may be the key to our reinvention.
Most planning work takes into account past and present data. Using forecasting and foresight tools, we try to envision the world that is emerging before us. These are best guesses if we are lucky.
A Futures Lab is an exploratory space for imagining different futures by surfacing the assumptions we hold in the present. It’s a process helpful in breaking through blindspots and a poverty of imagination so that together, we architect a preferred future rather than be colonized by one.
This practice is based on a field of study called “Futures Literacy.” Working with Rev. Cameron Trimble, we will take a voyage to the year 2070.
- What might be your probable future should you continue on a predictable course?
- What is a desirable future?
- What is the difference you hope you will be making in the world in 2070?
Rev. Cameron Trimble, CEO of Convergence, will lead the 3-4 hour Futures Lab.
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