Oceania Futures Online 1 October 2025

Encouraging communities to imagine and enact regenerative futures

In this session Claire will take you through her (only just finished) PhD research that was focused on how we might encourage communities to imagine and enact regenerative futures. We will start by discussing the power that dominant narratives have on influencing the futures we imagine to be possible. Then Claire will take you through Narrative Futures Practice, a method that helps communities regain their sense of agency in participatory futuring. Through four analogies (the telescope, constellation, forest and campfire) Claire will share will this new research and how you can use it in community workshops to open up possible futures as well as to restore community connections, and increase confidence in enacting change.

About Claire

Bio: Claire is currently the Lead of the National Futures Initiative at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation. She is also an artist, academic, and activist – passionate about Just Futures. She is about to complete her PhD research, which has looked at how we might encourage communities to imagine and enact regenerative futures. She did this through the award-winning participatory futures project Museum of Futures. She does keynotes and workshops in futures thinking for organisation and universities,  and is often commissioned to write ‘future histories’ for organisations, laying out stories of societal transformation.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairefmarshall/

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Registration

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Cheryl

Futures Aunty, Think Beyond