I was first introduced to Loes, and Futures Literacy, by another BWL guest, Laureline Simon. When Laureline shared in her network that she was co-hosting a course on Futures Literacy for transformative climate action, I was drawn in and joined the cohort to experience this wonderful, exhilarating and enlivening work myself.

Those days immersed in the Futures Literacy framework were the first of what has now become a continuing interaction with Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair of Futures Literacy at Hanze University in Gronigen in Holland. I've been honoured and delighted to have co-created this conversation with Loes to bring an overview of Futures Literacy to our community here, and invite you to begin your journey into this specific way of building capability in the present to navigate uncertainty and find clarity in ambiguity through explorations and experiences of possible futures.

Loes and I hope you enjoy this conversation, and will accept our invitation to engage this work via the links below and we hope in a co-created learning experience coming early in 2024.

Connect with and explore Loes' work more deeply via the links below;

https://www.ted.com/talks/loes_damhof_futures_literacy_shaping_your_present_by_reimagining_futures

www.futursliteracy.net

https://loesdamhof.medium.com/

https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/event/futures-literacy-the-emergence-academy-may24/

https://www.unesco.org/en/futures-literacy

Connect with Tim and join the Better World Leaders community via the links below;

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

https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

I first encountered Mel Geltch after receiving an invitation to join a federally funded leadership program for bushfire impacted communities, following the Australian 'Black Summer' of 2019/20. From the prose in that invitation, I sensed I was encountering a fellow in the work, and as I responded to the expression of interest for that program, I also wrote to Mel and expressed that sense, and that I wondered whether we'd find ourselves weaving together beyond the duration of that program.

That inception moment was the genesis of two threads which have great meaning for me - the beginning of my journey as a practitioner of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter, and my unfolding and ever deepening friendship with Mel.

Mel is a steward of 'The Art of Hosting', co-Founder of Campfire Co-op and colleague and collaborator with our previous episodes' guest, Samantha Slade.

This conversation covers several of the integral frameworks found within the patterns, processes and practices of 'The Art of Hosting', as well as some contemporary dialogue on the The First Nations' Voice to Parliament referendum, and the role of such frameworks in holding space for and connecting with ourselves, and our innate capacity to work in life affirming ways.

Mel and I hope you'll enjoy this discussion, and potentially be curious to explore this work more deeply yourself.

Links below to Mel, Campfire Co-op and upcoming opportunities to get involved in Going Horizontal training co-hosted by Mel & Campfire in November 2024.

Connect with Mel on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/melgeltch/

Check out Campfire Coop's website - https://www.campfire.coop/

Explore Going Horizontal in Australia - https://www.campfire.coop/gohocanberra23

Connect with Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

Join and connect with the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

This conversation was recorded face to face, in fact almost toe to toe, with Samantha Slade whilst she was in Australia in early 2023. In the days and weeks before we spoke for the Better World Leaders microphone, we had hosted an Art of Hosting training together along with fellows from Campfire Co-op (more on Campfire in the next episode) and I had also participated in a Going Horizontal workshop led by Samantha and one of her Percolab colleagues, co-hosted with Campfire.

I share that context upfront, as it's not often that I'm conversing with someone with whom I have been so entangled so recently and deeply as we create a conversation together, and it was so wonderful to do so with Samantha.

Samantha is co-Owner & co-Director of Percolab, a network of living labs which develop new ways of learning, working and governing.

Samantha is the author of Going Horizontal, an incredibly abundant collection of practices and practical approaches to bringing living systems frameworks into ways of organising at work. She's also to creator of "Listen For', a wonderful game of connection, deep listening and exploring bias through through the medium of collective story sharing. I've been a fan of 'Go-Ho' since it's release and have played and led Listen For games in multiple countries and can personally speak to both my own benefit, and that of teams and whole organisations from both of these sources based on my own direct experience.

If you're based in Australia, you can attend the next Australian-based Going Horizontal training in November, see details via link below;

https://www.campfire.coop/gohocanberra23

Samantha and I both hope you enjoy the discussion co-created here, and invite you to follow the links below to explore this work for yourself...

Follow Samantha & engage with her work here...

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthaslade/

Percolab - https://www.percolab.com/

Follow Tim and engage with the Better World Leaders community here;

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

BWL on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders/

  Thank you as always for your time and attention. I'm looking forward to bringing you more episodes very soon.