Ideas worth spreading
Brighter Futures Now is built on the strong foundations of many people’s ideas and concepts.
These ideas are worth spreading. They help us shape the way we see the world, which opens up new possibilities, and builds our sense of agency to bring those to life.
Here are some of our favourite ideas, concepts and people that have shaped the way we see the world, and what we offer.
Otto Sharma
Otto Sharma has said that collectively we are creating a world that none of us want. his antidote to this, is to develop collective purpose base don what we really see, think and feel about our world.
The Presencing Institute
Masterfully explaining adaptive strategy, and what this looks like
Freda Wells
The Goodlife CollectiveGreg Sattell
Greg is a passionate believer and advocate for not doing change to people, but instead motivate, energise, and find ways for them to be vested in creating the future we want.
Change GuruAn original architect of systems thinking, complexity, and how our lives and living systems are enmeshed with this
A master of using Socratic reasoning to identify the deeper code of how systems operate, and inviting people to change
Cormac Russell
Cormac is a delight. He believes that we should start with explore what’s strong, not what’s wrong. That we should do things ‘with’ people, and support them to do things ‘by themselves’. His community development models really shift our ideas of what we seek, how we show up, and what we enable.
Nurture DevelopmentIndy Johar & Team
Quietly asking us to see our world differently, and inviting us to ask better questions, Dark Matter Labs have a provocation for us - what if we are holding ourselves back form the futures we desire, because we have a crisis of imagination, of seeing what’s possible and within our grasp?
Dark Matter LabsEnriching our information diet, encouraging positivity, and a devotion to integrity, honesty, community, collaboration. Freda embodies what we need more of in this world.
Many other too, including……
Encouraging people to step into their agency, through citizenry