Brave New Ways #5 / Open Futures, Transformational Change, New Beginnings
Happy New Year! And welcome back to Brave New Ways. How can this newsletter best support your boldest learning journeys in 2022?
Please tell us in this 1-minute survey.
How Do Journeys of Transformation Begin?
The beginning of a new year is a time with a special quality: we, and the people around us, tend to be more open to starting afresh and trying new ways. It’s not entirely rational, but it’s real. How can you take advantage of this collective openness to begin big new journeys?
Part I of this Holiday Edition offered three big questions to help stimulate your holiday reflections and surprise your brain into seeing new possibilities for the new year:
- How open is the future?
- How optional is new technology?
- How likely are new forms of organization and society?
Re-read Part I now or listen to the Audio Edition via The Atlas Project Podcast.
Today’s Part II offers a ten-year case study and a four-step process to help you convert the new possibilities you’re starting to imagine into impactful journeys of discovery: for yourself, your groups and society.
Do New Thinking Together
As a Member, you can leverage Neue Geo's growing resources to help you learn and lead in 2022. Want to produce a podcast episode? A conversation-event? A new piece for the whitepaper series?
How do journeys of transformation begin? Turn this question into a new learning journey alongside other Society members.
Watch Chris’ invitation video, or jump straight to Discord to express interest in exploring more.
| Do new thinking together on Discord. |
Big Questions to Begin 2022
In the December episode of The Atlas Project Podcast, hosts Scott Kent Jones and Chris asked: What questions best capture the events of 2021 and set the stage for 2022? They came up with several:
- How far out is the future? This month = COVID? This decade = Climate Change? This century = China? Are we horizon makers or horizon takers?
- Who is the "we"? My political tribe? My nation? My human race? What challenges am I facing alone, and what challenges are you facing with me?
- Can blessings be powerful, too? We've all got great tools to sling mud and turn crypto-hype into gold. What about spreading goodwill? Can we work positive magic on each other?
- [Reserved for listeners!]
Listen now, and get some good conversation-starters to help you help people widen their horizons for 2022.
What's your perspective? Share your stories with us:
Rich Learning Pathways
Connect with people and ideas from across the Society:
- Want a good anecdote to open your next conversation about change? Watch this 2-minute excerpt from a speech by Giulio Quaggiotto, global Head of Strategic Innovation at UNDP
- Confused about crypto? Read this influential pre-holiday post by Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, on “Why its too early to get excited about Web3”
- Interested in citizen-led communities? Follow Professor Christian Iaione from LabGov, who tweets about the #urbancommons and #internetofhumans
- Want to think rigorously about the role of narratives in society? Read the intro of Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller’s seminal 2017 paper on “Narrative Economics”
The Journey Continues...
“Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.” - Mark Twain.
Next time in Brave New Ways, we’ll help you rethink Death. It’s a taboo topic in modern society. We are very poor explorers of life’s greatest unknown. Can you change that?
🙏 Thanks for bringing your energy here. - Chris and your Neue Geo team
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