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Learning & Experiencing Futures Literacy
Facilitator: UNESCO Chair Loes Damhof & Artist Alex Lambie
As times feel more uncertain, we often respond too fast to urgency, regularly resulting in yet more of the same. To uncover and discover new genuine pathways we need new regenerative leadership.
In this three-day course, inspired by the beautiful Cotswolds and guided by experts, you will use Futures Literacy to disrupt the influence of urgency, and experience the power and potential of different ways of responding to uncertainty and complexity.
Earlybird priced places are sold out – places are now available at standard price.
If you would like to share with a friend, please call Cathy on 01453 759 034 to make your booking or email: info@hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
Event time: Tue 21st May 2024 at 3:30pm - Fri 24th May 2024 at 4:00pm
"What if how we solve problems, becomes the problem?" Bayo Akomolafe
- Futures literacy: using futures to see the present anew
- Deep Listening: our sensory responses to nature and art
- Nesting: embracing emergence in your daily life
- Regenerative leadership
- Develop your regenerative leadership skills
Participants Will Gain
- Learn how to use futures to make better (informed) decisions
- Learn how to break the dominance of urgency in decision making
- Learn how to be open to emerging phenomena
- Learn to make space for a different, more sustainable sense of agency
- Learn how to appreciate uncertainty and complexity
To learn how to approach complexity differently, we need to approach learning differently. If we are striving for a sustainable way of being in a circular economy, then our way of learning must be circular too.
The Course
This course will welcome you as a member of the third cohort of the Emergence Academy at Hawkwood CFT: a regenerative learning ecosystem that enables the leaders of today and tomorrow to develop a shared understanding and language of Futures Literacy that fosters our transition toward a resilient world that is more open to emergence.
The Facilitators
Loes and Alex have worked with organisations including National Governments, The RSA, FutureWomenX, UNESCO, ClimateKIC, Oxfam, global brands, Futures Oriented Museums around The World, UN, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies and were recently made Futures Fellows of Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking.
Your Stay
During your stay, we will make the best use of what Hawkwood has to offer: walks and outings, campfires and delicious food.
Testimonials
From the first Emergence Academy July 2022
“A thoroughly enjoyable, get-away-from-the-rat-race, re-connect with nature, and redefining experience that has shifted the way I view the world”
I am
“It was life transforming. I fully took on the learning and felt some realisations shift in me about both my capabilities as a leader and as a human being.”
“…more than a Futures Literacy course – it was a feast for mind, body and soul.”
“An amazing dive into FL. I discovered new ways to change mindset, practice the capability to be with uncertainty and to be more deeply in contact with myself and nature”
Emergence Academy
The Emergence Academy is a regenerative learning ecosystem that guides leaders of today and leaders of tomorrow through unique experiences in the use and application of Futures Literacy; developing and deepening shared understanding and language to bridge gaps in organizational hierarchy and foster our transition towards greater resilience, an openness to spontaneity and an appreciation for not knowing.
This Emergence Academy course has been developed through a proud collaboration between UNESCO Futures Literacy Chair, Loes Damhof, artist and author of enki Alex Lambie, and Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking. Come be part of this unique project!
What is Futures Literacy?
We use the future every day: we predict, we fear and we hope. When we use the future, we anticipate and how we anticipate matters, since it changes the present. For something that has such a deep impact on how we act and think in our daily lives, we know very little about how we use the future. Futures Literacy, developed within UNESCO, is the capability of imagining diverse and multiple futures, and using futures as lenses through which we look at the present anew. (Miller, 2018). By revealing and examining the assumptions we make about the future, we open ourselves up to better informed decisions and innovative ideas. In short, we actively start using the future to innovate the present.
"Futures Literacy Labs are experiential knowledge creation processes, that derive from the collective intelligence and openness of the group. enki seamlessly fits into this process and has proven to be an invaluable component for the learning space....it is a powerful tool for participants to become fully present and connected to themselves while sharing a profound experience."
— Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy
Retreat Programme
DAY 1
On day one you experience a Futures Literacy Laboratory that follows three phases of revealing existing assumptions, reframing our futures and rethinking the present. The Lab is a hands-on workshop that introduces Futures Literacy in a practical and experiential way. It offers plenty of insights on how to use futures differently and to stretch our imagination.
DAY 2
Day two is about emergence. Using natural surroundings and art-inspired techniques, you dive into the capability of anticipation for emergence. How do we learn to appreciate the unknown while remaining open at the same time? When we cannot plan the future, can we use her for emergence?
DAY 3
Day three is about nurturing these capabilities and applying them to your own context. After having been on expedition, how do we manifest in the world of concrete? How do we make space for different ways of thinking and being?
Hawkwood
Your Stay
Hawkwood is a stunning Grade II listed 19th Century country house, surrounded by 42 acres of sustainably managed woodland, farmland, and gardens. Set in the heart of the Cotswolds – an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – it is a sanctuary away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. With a diverse selection of nearly 150 courses, there’s plenty to choose from, including courses in transformative leadership, future thinking, inner life, music and the arts. Our programme of courses is led by experienced tutors and leaders in their fields.
What Is Included
Both residential and non-residential rates are available. Residential options are fully inclusive with all meals provided. Non-residential options include suppers, lunches and all refreshments and exclude B&B.
Additional Activities
Mindful walking through our woodland trails
Meditate in our Woodland Sanctuary
Go on a hike and explore the Cotswolds AONB
Discover surrounding charming market towns
The Emergence Academy
An immersive course in Futures Literacy and new ways of knowing, being, thinking.
Price Options
£867 Earlybird Non-Residential
£956 Earlybird Shared
£1020 Earlybird Residential Single
£1020 Non-Residential
£1125 Residential Shared
£1200 Residential Single
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Practical Information
Check-in is at 3.30pm; the course will start at 4.00pm
As elements of this course will be taught outside, please bring suitable clothing.
Loes Damhof
As a leading International Futures Literacy Expert and UNESCO Chair, Loes Damhof designs and facilitates so-called Futures Literacy Labs all over the world: collective intelligence ignitions that challenge and raise fundamental questions on leadership, migration, climate change and technology.
Visit Tutor's WebsiteAlex Lambie
Alex is an international artist and social entrepreneur whose work applies fundamental tenets of Futures Literacy and Eco Literacy to create and curate human (re)connection with compassion, emergence and resilience.
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Hawkwood is an educational charity providing courses, facilitating training and offering venue hire, set in a stunning location in the Cotswolds.
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