Show Notes
Welcome to this eight-part series, where you’re invited into the study of futures practitioner Bill Sharpe in conversation with his friend and mentee, Yasu Mali. In this episode we talk about why we created this series, we give a brief introduction to the Three Horizons framework including understanding the voices of the Three Horizons, and what we mean by H2+ and H2-. Bill also shares his third horizon vision for Three horizons as a shared cultural practice and what we mean by the patterning of hope. Useful links Future Stewards website: www.futurestewards.com with links to many other resources
Video intro to Three Horizons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p90ZTg0svmM&t=2s
Video of Three Horizon Voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1fUvIu0sYA&t=2s
Three Horizons: the patterning of hope, Bill Sharpe https://www.triarchypress.net/three-horizons.html
Curry, A. & Hodgson, A., Seeing in Multiple Horizons: Connecting Futures to Strategy, Journal of Futures Studies, Vol13 No. 1, Aug 2008. https://jfsdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131-A01.pdf
Sharpe, B., A. Hodgson, G. Leicester, A. Lyon, I. Fazey, I (2016). Three Horizons: a pathways practice for transformation, Ecology and Society 21(2):47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08388-210247
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The patterning of hope is our capacity to bring our unique potential into the renewal of the patterns of life. In this final bonus episode in The Patterning of Hope series, Bill brings all that we’ve covered together in a simple exercise to explore the patterns of hope and renewal in your own life. As Bill says “To hope is to change our experience of the present moment into one of life, to renew the human where we are, and as such is to experience life even in the presence of death of ourselves and others.”
In this final episode in The Patterning of Hope series, Yasu and Bill discuss how the practice of transformation can be likened to that of democracy or language. What Bill is working to ignite around a movement of collective transformation. Plus we hand you an invitation and permission slip to pick up these practices and make them your own!
When we’re trying to bring about change we look for the simplest pattern that we have the power to embody in relationship with others to get change underway - we often call this establishing the Minimum Viable Pattern. In this seventh bonus episode Bill shares a practice for getting this process of change underway.
In this seventh episode in The Patterning of Hope series, Yasu and Bill explore the “hungry caterpillar” of transformation. They discuss how to bring about change, looking at the three stages of change (envision, enrol, mobilise). How to think about minimum viable patterns, and. value constellations. Plus Bill’s (revised and more poetic) definition of transformation. Links Three stages of change video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNah-GSHss
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