22/10/2024
"...when storytelling comes into its own. How can we use what we have already created to support us in telling a story that helps people to really step into and imagine the future? Political theorist Mary Brown recently wrote “only a compelling vision of a less frightening and insecure future will recruit anyone to a progressive or revolutionary alternative future—or rouse apolitical citizens for the project of making that future. This vision must be seductive and exciting, and it must be embodied in seductive and exciting leadership and movements, hopefully oriented by an ethic of responsibility”.
Last weekend Transition Network held an online event called the Day of Transition Practice. As part of it, I was asked to give a short talk about the narrative of Transition, and how it's changed over time. So here is an edited version of the video I made of that talk (I was travelling and couldn't....