It's very exciting to finally be able to share with you the cover of 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' which will be published June 17th by Chelsea Green Publishing. It took us a while to get there, but I hope you'll agree it was worth sticking with it. The cover needed to capture a future worth falling in love with, and I think we've achieved that.
Rob Hopkins, a pioneer in sustainability and community-driven change, believes that the future isn’t something we stumble upon—it’s something we actively create or fail at. At the heart of his work lies a question: what happens when we lose the ability to imagine a better world? For Hopkins, imagination is more than just creativity—it’s a survival tool essential for unlocking the sustainable, resilient, and equitable futures we are desperately in need of [Original here].
When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in these dark days as my 57th birthday approaches it comes back into my imagination often.
Here’s a treat you might like to offer yourself in 2025. At the end of May, at the wonderful Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, I will be running a weekend course based on my forthcoming book ‘How to Fall in Love with the Future’ (coming May 2025), sharing the tools and practices I use to bring the future that results from our doing everything we could possibly have done alive for people. See you there.
It was an honour to be a keynote speaker at the Planetiers conference in Portugal as my month-long trip there came to a close. Here is the talk I gave there, including your introduction to the movie ‘Cat Women of the Moon’.
This is a write-up of the tour we just finished around Portugal, which I hope captures how it was. It was quite an adventure! May it leave a legacy of renewed energy and momentum and some new tools and practices, as well as new connections between people.
Here is a beautiful video that tells the story of the ‘Town Anywhere’ activity, designed by Ruth Ben Tovim and which I co-facilitated with her at the event back in August 2024. It captures wonderfully the magic that happens when people are invited to imagine the future and to then physically build it.
On September 12th, I gave a talk at City Hall in Copenhagen which was a rather magical evening. Here is a beautiful video that documents the evening.
I’m delighted to announce that Ruth and I (my first time co-facilitating it) will be putting it on in Bristol on August 29th, 10am-4pm as part of the fabulous Forwards Festival. It’s going to be AMAZING, and spaces are limited. Book your place here. See you there!
It is a joy to be asked to write a foreword for this delightful book. Having written most of the early published books about Transition, it is to be greatly celebrated that other voices are now stepping in and sharing their insights, learnings, and perspectives on Transition concepts, and hopefully there will be many more.
I recently spoke at an event organised by Transition Town Brixton as the opening event in their ‘Spaces of Hope’ series. I thought you might like to see it. Such a dynamic audience and lively event. I hope you enjoy it.
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