I've been to the future & we won! Rob Hopkins Ministry of imagination

Telling stories is a way to boost our imaginations about the possibilities for the future.  As an example, space travel to the moon was imagined and written about almost 100 years before it actually happened.  Those early stories prepared us for space travel actually happening in the late 1960s.
As Rob Hopkins says, "What we cannot imagine, cannot come into being, as the future must enter into you a long time before it happens."
At the Jericho Community Center on October 28th, Transition Town Jericho presented the YouTube video “I've been to the future & we won! Rob Hopkins Ministry of imagination”, that was presented on September 9th in Copenhagen.  The 30 minute video, I've been to the future & we won! Rob Hopkins Ministry of imagination @Copenhagen 12/09/2024,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awjoWhcDOGs  illustrates the power of storytelling to prepare us for the kind of future we would like to see.


Rob Hopkins' talk invited the question:  If we do everything we can now, what kind of future will we have in 2035?   He also said, that to have a future we dream about, we should have “longing” for that better future and we should be asking “what if” questions to help us imagine what our future could be.
After viewing the video, our group shared these ideas about what they thought was important for the future, as they envisioned it.

• Promote bio mimicry to carry us into the future, embracing those things that copy nature’s way of doing things
  
• Honor the people who create art, as much if not more so than the art itself
  
• Realize the value of non-monetary systems and how they enhance aspects of our society
• Practice sustainable ways for our future
• Realize how amazing the earth  is and treat it as such
• Uphold wisdom as more valuable than greed
• Practice understanding how Mother Earth wants us to live, so that generations following us will have some aspects of the earth we enjoy today

It is important to keep this kind of communication going, asking questions led by “what if” so we imagine what just may come to be!