To soften conflict, plan like a storm-watcher.
Keep your eyes on the clouds, and your hands in the dirt
In times of polycrisis, planning for sunshine alone is naïve.
Resilient gardens, like resilient teams, prepare for heat, floods and pests.
This is where foresight and collective imagination come in.
Not to predict but to absorb what is possible and more.
When asked early and often, the “What if…?” and the “If we knew that this possibility could come to pass, what else would change for us all?” questions help the team prepare with grace for different disruptions and patterns, without aggressiveness.
Imagination and scenario crafting are not luxury tools.
They are essential scaffolding ingredients that your team can use to respond to future storms. You’re repurposing anxiety into calm and readiness, like trellises offer a shape of support in wild weather.
Some reflection seeds:
What future possibilities – beautiful or difficult – have you avoided imagining?
What scaffolding could help you face them with less panic, more grace?
What are your freshest thoughts?
