Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we gather, make, learn and be, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise their continuing connection to land, water, and community.

A provocation and invitation

Everything presented here is both provocation and invitation—to imagine how we might craft flourishing futures together.

Collective Futurecrafting Practices

Discover the living practices that bring our patterns to life and embody our principles in action.

Living practices for living systems

These practices are not rigid techniques but living ways of crafting that help us embody the principles and express the patterns of Collective Futurecrafting. Each practice weaves together multiple patterns while staying grounded in our core principles.

Initiating a circle

The foundation of all our work is how we gather. Circle practice creates the conditions for authentic dialogue, deep listening, and collective wisdom to emerge.

How it works
  1. Gather 3-7 people who share a common interest or concern.
  2. Create a safe, welcoming space for gathering (physical or virtual).
  3. Begin with a centering practice to ground the group.
  4. Use check-in rounds to build connection and presence.
  5. Establish shared agreements for how you'll work together.
  6. Close with reflection and gratitude.

Remember: circles are living entities that evolve through communing. Start simple and let the practice deepen over time.

Somatic crafting

A set of embodied practices that help us move from intellectual understanding to lived and felt experience of our principles and patterns. Through movement, breath, and collective ritual, we integrate these ways of being into our bodies and relationships.

How it works
  1. Choose a pattern or principle to explore through your bodies.
  2. Create a safe container for embodied exploration.
  3. Guide participants through:
    • Centering practices to ground in the body
    • Movement explorations that embody the chosen theme
    • Breathing together in ritual rhythms
    • Partner (dyadic dance) or group exercises to build relational awareness
    • Reflection and integration
  4. Close with collective grounding and gratitude.

Perpetual piloting

Rather than seeking perfect solutions, we embrace continuous experimentation and learning. Perpetual pilots are continuous living experiments that evolve through feedback, reflection, and iteration.

How it works
  1. Identify a challenge or opportunity that matters to your community.
  2. Design a small-scale experiment:
    • Define what you want to learn
    • Identify key stakeholders to involve
    • Create clear feedback mechanisms
    • Set timeline for first iteration
  3. Implement the pilot with regular check-ins and documentation.
  4. Reflect collectively on what's emerging:
    • What's working? What isn't?
    • What are we learning?
    • What wants to emerge next?
  5. Iterate based on learnings, keeping what works and adjusting what doesn't.

Somatic storytelling

Stories live not just in our minds but in our bodies. Through movement, gesture, and embodied expression, we bring our stories to life and feel them in our bones.

How it works
  1. Create a safe container for embodied exploration:
    • Ground the group through breath or movement
    • Set agreements about participation and witnessing
    • Acknowledge different physical abilities and comfort levels
  2. Introduce a story theme or prompt:
    • Personal or collective memories
    • Visions of the future
    • Relationship with place or nature
  3. Guide embodied exploration:
    • Start with simple movements or gestures
    • Layer in sound, rhythm, or voice
    • Invite partner or group interaction
  4. Reflect and integrate:
    • Share experiences in pairs or circle
    • Note insights and discoveries
    • Connect personal stories to collective themes

Collaborative storycrafting

Together we weave new narratives of possibility, building shared visions of the futures we wish to craft. Through collaborative storytelling, we exercise our moral imagination and strengthen our capacity to act together.

How it works
  1. Prepare the storycrafting space:
    • Gather in circle（physically or virtually)
    • Set intention for the story journey
    • Review guidelines for collaborative creation
  2. Choose a story focus, for example:
    • Future visions of the community and locality
    • Community challenges being faced
    • Ancestral or ecological connections
  3. Begin the collaborative storying:
    • Each person adds one element (a word or sentence)
    • Build on previous contributions
    • Embrace unexpected directions
    • Use metaphor, allegory, similie and symbolism
    • Allow for silence and reflection
    • Record using your phone or play with GenAI tools like ChatGPT
  4. Harvest the story's gifts:
    • Notice emerging themes
    • Reflect on personal and collective resonance
    • Use simple drawings and interpretive art to illustrate visions and pathways to get there
    • Optional: create a collective story artifact with GenAi tools like ChatGPT or MidJourney
    • Consider next steps and where this connects to the greater whole

Emerging practices and playbook

More practices will be added here in rhythm with sister Moon as we continue to play in praxis. If you have a practice you'd like to share, or want to contribute to the playbook please get in touch with us. Or stay updated by subscribing to our Substack

Principles

Learn about the seven principles that guide Collective Futurecrafting.

Learn

Patterns

Understand the foundational patterns of Collective Futurecrafting.

Understand

Playground

Are you ready to play a game and learn in the process?

If you dare

Contribute to living practice

We are just beginning on this intergenerational journey of Collective Futurecrafting, and we need your voice, your wisdom, your heart, your dreams.

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