Moral Imaginations

~ The three pillars approach ~ (c) Moral Imaginations 2022 The Moral Imaginations methodology is based around these three core pillars: 🌀Future unborn generations ~ shifting our perspective from the current-day to the future. Exercises and practices that imagine looking back on this moment from seven generations in the future. 🌀Nature and the more-than-human world ~ reclaiming our ability to speak on behalf of Nature. Our connection with the natural world will help us fight to protect the natural world we love. 🌀Ancestors and the past ~ expanding our sense of time and connecting with a sense of “Deep Time”, we change our perspectives and detach from the urgency of the everyday Our work exists to embed these three pillars into decision-making, policy, governance and practice to help bring about a life-centric society. We work with collective imagination which we take one step further into what we call “moral imagination” — using shifts in perspective to “look through the eyes” of these three pillars and embed the perspectives into our systems. #ImaginationActivism

You may be wondering what this whole “imagination activism” thing is. You know how usually when we think of activists, we think of people protesting in the streets? We think that kind of traditional activism is really important. But we think there’s space for a new kind of activist too. Imagination activism uses the tools of imagination and vision to power a new kind of activist. One that is focused on building the new, as well as protesting the old. Phoebe Tickell created the term Imagination Activism in April 2022 to describe this new kind of activism. Imagination Activists are powered by three things: creativity, inspiration and hope. Each of these brings them a different set of resources and energy to draw from. We believe imagination is a muscle. An imagination activist is someone who expands and works out their imagination muscle, to expand their ways of thinking, and their sense of what is possible and achievable. They expand their own imaginations and they create ways to help others expand their imaginations too. In this way, they create pockets of the future by bringing new possibilities into the present. In the current state of the world, and the never-ending news about natural disasters, mass violence and ecological destruction, it’s easy to enter a state of doom and gloom. We think it’s important not to look away from the seriousness of the crises we find ourselves in. To do anything else is to live in denial, but to get stuck in the doom is to live in despair. Imagination activists see the pain of the world and do not look away. But they believe a better world is possible, and they draw on the tools of creativity, inspiration and hope to resource their action to build that better world today. #imagination #imaginationactivism #activism #activist #camdenimagines #activehope

Incredibly, unbelievably excited that @moral_imagining has launched an Imagination Activism programme with @CamdenCouncil . We are training council officers in #Camden in the skills of collective imagination and horizontal leadership to become agents of change of Camden. These council officers and public servants work tirelessly every day to make things better for Camden residents in the borough. We believe there is huge imagination capacity in #Camden to be unlocked, platformed and supported, and these council officers will be able to meet that. Follow along for updates from the course, including meeting our participants, on the #CamdenImagines blog. This project is about building imagination capacity in Camden, and partnering to embed imagination into how things work in Camden. Follow along the blog (link in bio)! The world's first training in collective imagination practice and methodology, and it's happening with civil servants, rather than tech giants 😊. This is imagination justice - it's not just what we imagine, but who gets to imagine. This programme is about doing, not theory - it's about practice. We're going on an adventure together as a cohort for 8 weeks, and the result will be imagination activism - actions, projects and creations that can benefit all beings - future generations, nature and all people. #CamdenImagines #ImaginationActivism #imagination #whoseimaginations

Most people silently believe business as usual is leading us off a cliff. Polling shows majorities believe our current path is unstable, heading toward collapse. Yet we treat it like something to acknowledge… then avoid. What if this shared awareness isn’t just fear — but a starting point? Because once we face it together, “Plan B” stops looking reckless. It becomes the only responsible option. And for it to become reality, we need to exercise our @moral_imagining (see @phoebetickell Read more in our latest report, Mobilising Silent Majorities. 🔗 Substack in bio #hope #grief #connection #silentmajority #imagination Image cred: Original character Wile E. Coyote ©️ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. This edited work is a parody created for the purpose of social commentary.

On Friday I had the great pleasure of spending the day with 16 incredible leaders, working across social care, the NHS, river restoration, to name a few, returning to the fantastic venue of Hawkwood College in Stroud where I am lucky to be a fellow! The day was a deep dive into the life, work and legacy of my late mentor Joanna Macy, where I shared anecdotes and moments from our time together, and key teaching moments which have infused their way into my life and work. The day was co-hosted with my wonderful collaborator, @rupertread , who was also a mentee of Joanna’s, and was also able to speak from his own perspective about her life and work. Together, we led the group through key concepts such as the Great Turning, Great Unravelling, the world as lover, world as self, radical acceptance, the moral imagination, and through some of the most core exercises of the Work That Reconnects spiral. It was as if we entered a portal, and so much occurred in just one day. We did this as an experiment, and we’re confident it went splendidly. The feedback from participants was that they felt lighter, like a weight had been lifted, and as often it is with the Work That Reconnects, it restored their sense of belonging, connection, and wonder - both to each other, and to the wider, more-than-human world. Thanks to all who came! After the workshop, I was lucky enough to spend time with the inimitable @mrs_meg_avon and her beloved, the River Avon. We went for a dip early on Saturday morning, to the horror and fascination of early morning dog walkers. She asked me what the river said to me as I entered into her waters, and I heard her say loudly, ‘surrender yourself to me’. It was the perfect way to end ‘World As Lover, World As Self’. Thank you Meg! #hawkwood #worldaslover #joannamacy #riveravon #megavon

What if the majority isn’t apathetic...just silent? Across the UK and the world, most people are concerned about climate breakdown and the direction of society. But most of us rarely talk about it. That’s the spiral of silence: we wait to feel powerful before we speak, but that power only comes from hearing others speak first. The majority is already here. Now let’s find our voice. Join @carolinelucasbrighton , Liam Kavanagh, Wim Vermeulen and @phoebetickell for the launch of Mobilising Silent Majorities — a landmark report on how private concern becomes collective power. 🗓 March 31 ⏰ 17:30–19:00 GMT 📍 Online 🎟 Free tickets to the Silent Majorities Launch Event — link in bio (our LinkTree) #ClimateMajority #SilentMajorities #ClimateAction #SystemChange ClimateComms

Record-breaking gathering alert! 🦋✨ This weekend, 15 imagination activists have assembled at Hawkwood College—the highest concentration of imaginal cells ever reported here at once. We’ve been assigned a special table at lunch to contain the temporal distortions. Apparently, when this many imagination activists convene, reality starts to warp, timelines blur, and unsuspecting lunch-goers risk glimpsing alternate futures without their consent. We wouldn’t want to disrupt anyone’s peaceful meal with uninvited visions of regenerative possibility! Over these 48 hours, we’ve transformed @hawkwood_cft into a fully operational time portal where moral imagination levels are reaching unprecedented heights. The chrysalis is humming. The future is being dreamed into being. And several attendees have reported that breakfast felt like it lasted three days. #ImaginationActivism #HawkwoodCollege #ImaginalCells #TimePortal #BecomingAnImaginationActivist #RegenerativeFutures #MoralImagination

We’re thrilled to be kicking off the very first Becoming an Imagination Activist weekend training at Hawkwood College! This weekend, we’re embarking on a journey with 15 intrepid explorers of the imagination for an immersive 48 hours of inspiration, vision, courage, and exploration of different futures. Together, we’ll be equipping a new cohort of imagination activists who will go out into the world and create ripple effects reaching many others. We think of imagination activists as imaginal cells—creating the new system within the shell of the old, just like the cells of the butterfly transforming within the chrysalis. We look forward to sharing moments, pictures, and takeaways from this special weekend. #ImaginationActivism #BecomingAnImaginationActivist #ImaginationActivist #Training #HawkwoodCollege #RegenerativeFutures #ImaginalCells

“I’ll believe it when I see it” is something cynics like to say. Willy Wonka famously reversed that. In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, his philosophy is: you’ll see it if you believe it. A concept called ‘imagination activism’, coined by Phoebe Tickell, applies the same idea to tackling the climate crisis. The problem isn’t a lack of solutions, she says, it’s the absence of a creative, *collective* vision for what a better future looks like. Art is perhaps the most powerful tool for expanding that sense of possibility. I went to a radically immersive exhibition - almost akin to a hallucinogenic mushroom trip. It lifted me out of my body and into a literally effervescent world. Read my latest for @euronewsgreen : 👉🏼 ‘Why imagination activism beats climate doom’ 👈🏼 🧷 LINK IN BIO

Are you joining TED in Atlanta this week? We’re thrilled to share that our founder @phoebetickell will be bringing Moral Imagination Activism to the TED stage tomorrow! 🎤 She’ll be exploring a question at the heart of our work: ✨ In a time of global crisis, how do we reawaken our ability to imagine worlds worth fighting for? Through dialogue, reflection 🪞and creative exercises 🎨, Phoebe will guide the audience in opening up to regenerative possibilities and reconnecting with our shared responsibility to ourselves, our human and non-human community, and future generations 🌱 We’re so excited that imagination activism is reaching this community and growing a movement of people daring to see differently and create better futures together 💫 #TEDx #MoralImaginations #ImaginationActivism #CollectiveImagination

Each month, Resurgence hosts a vibrant programme of events that honour our commitment to connecting people with Nature, with one another, and with the deeper currents of creativity and awareness that sustain us. Our month-long Ecopoetry course with poet Diana Sanders offers a space to listen closely to the wild within and around us and to discover how words can become a bridge between the human and more-than-human worlds. In this month's free Resurgence Talk with Rutendo Ngara, we’ll explore how healing extends beyond the self, rooted in the rhythms of rivers, trees and ancestral memory. We also look ahead to December with our free Wild Folk talk featuring @jackiemorrisartist and @tamsintheshed , and an evening exploring the sacred art of Kriya, using the breath as a path to stillness and renewal. We hope you will join us for an event this month and share in Resurgence’s vision: to nurture beauty, community and ecological awareness through learning, creativity and dialogue. Read our latest newsletter at https://conta.cc/4hm3WHE - Visit the 'NEWSLETTERS' branch of our Linktree (see bio)

🌟 We have some great news to share! We’re opening up more spaces and new pricing tiers for the upcoming Hawkwood retreat! 🌿 This gathering is for community practitioners, artists and activists who want to explore how to transform systems from within - using creativity and compassion, not shame or blame - and to weave those principles into their work and daily lives. We heard from you, our community and biggest fans, that the pricing was too high for you to afford. Therefore we updated pricing to make it more accessible: £440 full price £310 non-residential rate £220 bursary (ages 16-26) If you are still struggling to afford the cost of this, please get in touch and let us know. We want to support anyone who wants to be there to make it. ✨ ALSO! We have 3 fully funded scholarship places available✨ 💸There is also a ‘Regenerator Rate’ for those who can afford to pay more. This will contribute to our Imagination Activist fund which supports the scholarship places. You can also pay for a place without coming, so pay-it-forward. We hope this helps open the doors a little wider for those who want to join this growing community of care and practice. 🌱 What’s included? Whether you stay with us or join as a non-resident, you’ll be nourished with wholesome meals and plenty of space for rest. Between sessions you can walk our woodland trails, meditate in the sanctuary, or explore the Cotswolds. 💫 You’ll leave with tools for collective visioning, skills in imagination-based facilitation, and confidence to integrate moral imagination tools into your projects and grow the imagination capacity of your community. #ImaginationActivism #Imagination #MoralImagination #Peactical #Tools #Practice #Futures #InterspeciesCouncil #RightsOfNature #CommunityLearning #HawkwoodCollege #Stroud