Ideas for better futures

Ideas for better futures

Research perspectives on strategic storytelling, change, participation and the stories organisations need next.

Research perspectives on strategic storytelling, change, participation and the stories organisations need next.

Tools for Systems Change: Listening Triads

Listening Triads are a powerful tool for encountering everyone's ideas

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Tools for Systems Change: Think Feel Do

Think, Feel, Do is the single most useful structure I know to producing effective communication. It doesn't matter if you are producing an ad, a video, a poster, a website, or writing a book - these are the questions that matter.

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Tools for Systems Change: Rose Thorn Bud

At Futurebetter we want people working in systems change to have the tools and knowledge to create  strategies that work - even in low resource settings. So my gift to you today is Rose, Thorn, Bud.

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The Source Layer needs you

In this age of ever more pervasive and persuasive AI, one story I want to promote is the story of the Source Layer. The Source Layer is what LLMs draw on: broadly, fact-checked reputable sources such as independent media outlets, peer-reviewed scientific papers, and not least, Wikipedia.

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Hope is a Story

If you want to escape a news cycle that sometimes seems to want to focus on pantomime villains and evil geniuses... Rewilding The World is my go-to podcast when I want to be reminded that not everything in the world is going belly-up.

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The Ministry for the Future

What stories are you reading to help you make good decisions in the context you find yourself in? If you want to be persuaded of the role that storytelling can play in helping us reimagine our shared futures then this book will do it.  

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