Thread by @louise_a

Today we launched the latest Future of Sustainability report, something I’ve been working on for seemingly ages now. ’Launch’ days are often a bit of an anticlimax, so feeling really weird about it, so sharing some of the behind the scenes process with you #timetotransform (1)

https://twitter.com/Forum4theFuture/status/1316295081733820419

The experience of creating this has been wild…
…wildly inspiring, frustrating and unpredictable in equal measure. Full of shape shifting and iterating in the midst of a global pandemic (2)

We started by asking what are the dynamics shaping the coming decade. Forest fires and Covid-19 the first major shocks of the decade…a turbulent and dynamic future not just a thing of the future- but a thing of our everyday reality (3)

We set up a cross organisation @forum4thefuture sense making team to track and make sense of what was happening. It was a space to channel the shock and latent creativity - an opening to a different way of working… (4)

…we challenged ourselves not default to the tools and approaches of pre-covid times - but to to create something suitable for a time of huge uncertainty and discontinuity, a living and more systemic futures tool #timetotransform.. (5)

This is where the future trajectories came from. I am most proud of this, a product of a genuine collective effort. Putting mindsets at the heart of our response to the future feels signficant and commensurate to the needs of now #systemschange #timetotransform(6)

We identified five dynamic areas where change and attention is most needed…our collective response and mindset we take to each of these really matters. The next 6-18months are critical. The choices we make now will shape the next decade and in turn the rest of our lives. (7)

What is really going to enable this is to be future focused, actively work with power, invest in change, shape new narrative and build our own capacity and resilience. (8)

Most critically for the sustainability community - this is really recognising and working from the reality that planetary health = human health. And that addressing social and climate justice is absolutely central to both of these things. (9)

And that’s not an out there thing - but about each of us understanding our own power, position and privilege as a starting point. Until we dismantle our mindset and assumptions of dominance and superiority - we will only go so far. I say as a white cis woman with work to do (10)

The irony of writing a report - about transformation - in the midst of a pandemic, with largely corporate sponsors is not lost….and has been the subject to much debate and tension. #timetotransform #livingchange (11)

At @forumforthefuture we tread a fine line of working with trusted relationships, simultaneously playing the current rules of the system, stretching potential and creating the new rules of the emerging system. Not saying we have the right balance either #learninginpublic (12)

There is much more…but thats enough for now. Thanks for listening, reflecting helps with the weirdness, open for a chat, challenge and reflections #timetotransform #livingchange (13)