Specifically what do you love?
I often ask participants in workshops to share something they could talk about for hours. (Sometimes I must add the caveat that I’m not inviting them to talk about it right now — just to name it for the rest of us! And if they struggle to think of an answer, it can help to mention that it may be the thing that makes their kids roll their eyes and say, “Don’t get them started on that!”)
Continue reading “Ten-Year Time Travel”I am a fan of using imagination as a strategy tool. Sounds a bit jarring, right? Rainbows and unicorns meet logic models and spreadsheets.
Not exactly.
Continue reading “Serious Imagination”I’m no runner, but I’m told that the middle-distance runs are hardest — the ones where you need to push yourself to maintain a pace that is slower than a sprint but faster than a marathon.
Imagination and strategy both sit at that distance for me, and it’s what makes them exciting and difficult.
For strategy, we tend to look too short term.
For imagination, too long.
Knowing, and reminding other people of the benefits of reimagining (and of movement and sleep and mindfulness and…) does not allow you (or me!) to reap the benefits of doing those things. I need to do them.
So it was a powerful moment recently when Sarah Kent invited me to describe one of my dreams to her in 30 minutes. It’s part of a project called Dreamworks. (She does more interviews than she has time to post, so they get posted by random draw, anonymously…so I’d invite you to look for mine, but I’ll be looking for it too!)
Continue reading “Do as You’ve Told”Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about what reimagining is and why we need it. So now it’s time to get practical about imagination and dig into how to do it.
You’ll be happy to know that being imaginative is not about sitting (alone and very still, with our forehead crunched up) and waiting for a flash of insight. It can happen through intentional, active and social steps, and I’m going to share a few of them with you this week and next.
Continue reading “How to Reimagine”