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GOING THE DISTANCE
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PARADIGMS
What change are we working towards and moving away from?
POWER
Whose vision (pre)determines our future?
FUTURES
How did we arrive at today and how does yesterday determine our tomorrow?
We’re clockmakers of pasts, presents, and futures
Our Department works with clients to create new visions for their future. All too often we find assets of the past and inertia of the present foreclose visions for the future. As such, reproduction takes hold, as does an incrementalist vision of change. Over time, this results in a growing disconnection between the organization’s vision and the contemporary moment it operates within. The organization falls out of step with communities and the biosphere. Our Department team dedicates ourselves to realigning visions with changes needed for this moment.
With pretty much every organization saying they are out to make the world a better place, it is likely that many of them believe it. What world? What forms of better? Who and what benefits? Looking from a paradigmatic lens, better is improvement and yet often entirely insufficient.
Our vision rooms embrace timefulness to see across pasts, presents, and futures simultaneously. This perspective enables our clients to understand what led an organization to now, where they are going, and what stands between time horizons. Together we have the chance to think more critically about our own thinking to expand visions and possibilities for your organizational vision.
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Three Horizons
Discern between paradigms and interventions that affect their prevalence
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The Marionette
Reveal, analyze, and forecast interventions in complex, adaptive organizational systems
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“My favourite part of the workshop was enabling imagination in a mostly technical group of people.”
“Great facilitators that were able to evolve the conversation organically to opening up mindsets.”
“I was pleasantly surprised that there was appetite towards rethinking academic institutions.”
“My favourite aspect of the workshop was seeing team members from different parts of the organization explain their thinking/mindset.”
People Who Inspire Our Department
Thomas Kuhn
Stuart Hall
Ailton Krenak
Audre Lorde
Donella Meadows
Bill Sharpe
Syrus Marcus Ware
Isabelle Wilkerson
Margaret Wheatley
Deborah Frieze
Hannah Arendt
Walter Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin
Marcia Bjornerud
Ta-Nehisi Coates
William Gibson
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Melanie Goodchild
David Graeber