The Role of Imagination in Sustainability
The future is a product of our imaginations and our willingness to act on those dreams. Sustainability leaders have a difficult balancing act to achieve: Act quickly and decisively, while at the same time advocate for an idea of what a more sustainable future might actually be like. We spend a lot of time building the skills to act and implement, but do we spend enough time cultivating the imagination?
With the goal of uniting a group of 16 people around a common dream and creating a team that has the willingness to to act on it, we used experimental learning methods such as creative visioning, and dreaming accessesing our intuitive and physical as well as emotional and cognitive collective intelligence. The imagination is a critical faculty for sustainability leaders, to understand the complex challenges, empathize and build collaborations, and develop the ideas that can unlock systematic change. So let’s bring a powerful imagination into the offical skillset of the sustainability leader.
The workshop was conducted with the Sustainability Steering Committee of an Italian global manufacturer of energy systems including cogeneration from biogas and natural gas and the conversion of biogas to renewable natural gas (RNG) with over 1,000 employees in 20 countries throughout Europe, Russia and North and South America.
The Role of Imagination in Sustainability
The future is a product of our imaginations and our willingness to act on those dreams. Sustainability leaders have a difficult balancing act to achieve: Act quickly and decisively, while at the same time advocate for an idea of what a more sustainable future might actually be like. We spend a lot of time building the skills to act and implement, but do we spend enough time cultivating the imagination?
With the goal of uniting a group of 16 people around a common dream and creating a team that has the willingness to to act on it, we used experimental learning methods such as creative visioning, and dreaming accessesing our intuitive and physical as well as emotional and cognitive collective intelligence. The imagination is a critical faculty for sustainability leaders, to understand the complex challenges, empathize and build collaborations, and develop the ideas that can unlock systematic change. So let’s bring a powerful imagination into the offical skillset of the sustainability leader.
The workshop was conducted with the Sustainability Steering Committee of an Italian global manufacturer of energy systems including cogeneration from biogas and natural gas and the conversion of biogas to renewable natural gas (RNG) with over 1,000 employees in 20 countries throughout Europe, Russia and North and South America.
