WHEN INSIGHT ISN'T ENOUGH

You understand what's not working. You've analyzed the problem six ways. You can name the patterns, identify the constraints, articulate exactly what needs to change.

But understanding doesn't build futures. Analysis doesn't create new possibilities. You need different tools—practices for making the unthinkable thinkable, then buildable.

That's what Futuring Sprints are for.

WHAT HAPPENS

Each quarterly sprint is a focused, intensive workshop (6 hours over two sessions) designed to help you develop the imaginative infrastructure for navigating transitions and designing viable futures.

We work with three core practices:

Scenario Planning
Based on Pierre Wack's work at Royal Dutch Shell, scenario planning helps you build multiple plausible futures instead of betting everything on one prediction. You'll learn to identify driving forces, explore uncertainties, and construct coherent scenarios that expand your strategic options.

Chronotopic Mapping
Drawing from Bakhtin's theory of chronotopes (time-space patterns), you'll learn to recognize how different temporal structures organize your experience and constrain what seems possible. Then we'll design new chronotopes that scaffold the life you're actually trying to build.

Counter-Defuturing Practices
Tony Fry argues that contemporary culture systematically eliminates our capacity to imagine and build meaningful futures. You'll learn to recognize defuturing forces and develop practices for reclaiming your temporal agency.

THE STRUCTURE

Session 1: Mapping the Field (3 hours)
We start by making the present strange. What stories are you living within? What temporal structures organize your days? What forces constrain your imagination? We'll map your current storyfield and identify the chronotopes that need to shift.

Between Sessions: Studio Work (2 weeks)
You'll have practices and prompts to develop between sessions. This is where the real work happens—in the disorienting middle, working the material.

Session 2: Building Futures (3 hours)
We construct multiple plausible futures using scenario planning techniques, design new chronotopic structures, and identify the next practices that will help you inhabit the future you're building.

WHO THIS IS FOR

• People facing major transitions (career shifts, relationship changes, relocations, identity evolutions)

• Leaders navigating organizational uncertainty who need to think beyond quarterly planning

• Creatives and entrepreneurs building new projects or practices

• Anyone stuck in a story that no longer serves who's ready to do compositional work

• Therapists and coaches who want to bring futuring practices into their clinical work

You should come ready to work. These sprints require intellectual engagement, tolerance for ambiguity, and willingness to sit with discomfort. If you want reassurance or quick answers, this isn't for you.

UPCOMING SPRINTS

Q1 2026: Chronotopes & Career Transitions
For people navigating professional identity shifts
February 15-16 (Saturdays), 10am-1pm PT

Q2 2026: Relationship Futures
For individuals and couples designing new relational possibilities
May 10-24 (Saturdays), 10am-1pm PT

Q3 2026: Organizational Futuring
For leaders and teams building adaptive organizational cultures
August 9-23 (Saturdays), 10am-1pm PT

Q4 2026: Life Architecture
For people redesigning the basic structures of daily living
November 7-21 (Saturdays), 10am-1pm PT

INVESTMENT

$897 per sprint (includes both sessions, between-session practices, and 30-day access to recordings)

Studio Members receive $200 off each sprint.

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