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An Inner Journey to a Future Consciousness
An Inner Journey to a Future Consciousness
Three Horizons and the practice of future consciousness
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Three Horizons and the practice of future consciousness
An inner journey to future consciousness
This offer is a first release of a yet unreleased podcast series recorded by Bill Sharpe and Yasu Mali, with reflective conversations and it is offered to anyone who would like to bring their own capacity for change into a process of creating a universal culture of future consciousness. The podcast material will be released publicly in the future.
Participants will be able to interact through Gaia Education's learning platform with forum discussions and live sessions. Each week there will be an online Q&A session in which you can share your experience of the practices and explore how to bring them into your life and work.
8 Episodes Podcast and Live Conversations with Bill Sharpe and special guests
In this podcast series Bill Sharpe and Yasu Mali share their experience of the core practices and ideas behind the Three Horizons futures framework that Bill and his colleagues have been bringing into the world of transformative change for nearly 20 years. This framework has been adopted widely as a simple structure that enables people to come together and renew the patterns of life from a perspective of hope.
Over the course of eight episodes they explore the underlying qualities of awareness that open up the future potential of the present moment and enable each of us to bring our capacity for creative action into the renewal of life. Accompanying each episode there is a bonus episode in which Bill offers a practice for developing this awareness.
The course will offer the opportunity to deepen the reflections with weekly live sessions with Bill and guests. Yasu Mali will join the first Q&A to share her motivation for creating these conversations. In the final Q&A Bill is joined by his long-time colleague and regenerative design practitioner Daniel Wahl, to discuss the wider setting of these practices in regenerative bio-regional futures.
This 8 week collective learning journey into The Patterning of Hope is the perfect opportunity to deepen your understanding and practice of the Three Horizons and become part of a global community of locally committed people ready to develop future consciousness. Let's explore how we can work creatively with the future potential of the present moment, and in doing so discover 'the patterning of hope'.
If you're ready to explore future consciousness, this program is for you!
Key Benefits
Open your awareness to the future potential of the present moment
Get into action in the face of uncertainty
Mobilise your inner capacity to be a source of hope
The Three Horizons Thinking opens a visionary and practical method to articulate sought for future qualities and values, so that measures to bring them about can be deliberately, collaboratively and effectively pursued in the present.
Course details
Course format:
Online, with live sessions and podcast episodes
Price:
300 GBP - Low income
400 GBP - Regular price
500 GBP - Abundant
Duration:
8 weeks - June 2nd to August 1st
Workload:
Approximately 2 hours per week
Structure:
8 Podcast episodes added by bonus interactive episodes, extra reading material and live sessions
Live Sessions:
Weekly live sessions on Mondays at 1 PM UTC with Bill Sharpe and special guests.
Key Benefits
Open your awareness to the future potential of the present moment
Get into action in the face of uncertainty
Mobilise your inner capacity to be a source of hope
Three Horizons Thinking opens a visionary and practical method to articulate sought for future qualities and values, so that measures to bring them about can be deliberately, collaboratively and effectively pursued in the present.
Episodes main topics
The Social Dimension is one part of Gaia's unique 4D Model, which integrates social, ecological, economic and worldview dimensions to create lasting change.
Episode 1
Three Horizons and “The patterning of hope”
Invitation to Wales. Brief introduction to the Three Horizons framework. Understanding the voices of the Three Horizons, and what we mean by H2+ and H2-. Bill’s third horizon vision for Three horizons as a shared cultural practice.
Invitation to Wales. Brief introduction to the Three Horizons framework. Understanding the voices of the Three Horizons, and what we mean by H2+ and H2-. Bill’s third horizon vision for Three horizons as a shared cultural practice.
Episode 2
Seeing everything as patterns: holism with focus
How does a tree become a tree? How did the internet become the internet? How does seeing in patterns help us effect change? In this episode we dive into the world of ‘structures and flows’, a core practice of seeing the world through a lens of interconnectedness.
How does a tree become a tree? How did the internet become the internet? How does seeing in patterns help us effect change? In this episode we dive into the world of ‘structures and flows’, a core practice of seeing the world through a lens of interconnectedness.
Episode 3
Identifying ecosystems for change
If everything is connected, how do you work with an ecosystem at the scale of change you wish to create? What’s a focal offering and how can we learn about creating one from the humble story of the pocket calculator? Why it’s important to shift from looking at the problems within an ecosystem to what matters within it.
If everything is connected, how do you work with an ecosystem at the scale of change you wish to create? What’s a focal offering and how can we learn about creating one from the humble story of the pocket calculator? Why it’s important to shift from looking at the problems within an ecosystem to what matters within it.
Episode 4
Time, imagination and future consciousness
What if we had a term for memory but for the future? Perhaps this is future consciousness. The power of imagination in supporting life to unfold in new ways. How to work with the potential of the present moment. How far out should we vision and dream? How do we tune into the timeline for our ambitions? How does looking back help us look forward? And how old will Bill be when his vision for future consciousness being mainstream comes to life.
What if we had a term for memory but for the future? Perhaps this is future consciousness. The power of imagination in supporting life to unfold in new ways. How to work with the potential of the present moment. How far out should we vision and dream? How do we tune into the timeline for our ambitions? How does looking back help us look forward? And how old will Bill be when his vision for future consciousness being mainstream comes to life.
Episode 5
What’s love got to do with it?
The importance of words to Bill and the meaning we make as we live them. The patterns that we stand for and the freedom we have to make small or big acts that stand apart from the current patterns of our lives. Working with challenge, how we show up. Dealing with stage fright with love. The art of facilitation as setting up a field of consciousness in which something emergent can manifest.
The importance of words to Bill and the meaning we make as we live them. The patterns that we stand for and the freedom we have to make small or big acts that stand apart from the current patterns of our lives. Working with challenge, how we show up. Dealing with stage fright with love. The art of facilitation as setting up a field of consciousness in which something emergent can manifest.
Episode 6
Dilemma navigation: being-as-self and being-as-part-of-the-whole
What is a dilemma? How to distinguish between a choice and dilemma? How dilemma thinking connects to Three Horizons. Identifying value tensions between the first and third horizons and how to look for the positive value. How Yasu used dilemma navigation to solve her family holiday dispute. What we can learn from ancient Irish myth about dilemmas. Value shifts between horizon 1 and 3.
What is a dilemma? How to distinguish between a choice and dilemma? How dilemma thinking connects to Three Horizons. Identifying value tensions between the first and third horizons and how to look for the positive value. How Yasu used dilemma navigation to solve her family holiday dispute. What we can learn from ancient Irish myth about dilemmas. Value shifts between horizon 1 and 3.
Episode 7
Transformation: imaginal cells and shifting patterns
The hungry caterpillar of transformation. “Imagination is the faculty by which we nurture reality into being” (Coleridge). How to bring about change, looking at the three stages of change: envision, enrol and mobilise. Minimum Viable Pattern (MVP). Value constellations. Bill’s definition of transformation.
The hungry caterpillar of transformation. “Imagination is the faculty by which we nurture reality into being” (Coleridge). How to bring about change, looking at the three stages of change: envision, enrol and mobilise. Minimum Viable Pattern (MVP). Value constellations. Bill’s definition of transformation.
Episode 8
A universal practice: an invitation to ‘pattern hope’
How the practice of transformation can be likened to that of democracy or language. What Bill is trying to do: “Just as we evolved into language we have to evolve collectively into living transformatively.” Your invitation and permission slip to pick up these practices and make them your own. Navigating by invisible islands.
How the practice of transformation can be likened to that of democracy or language. What Bill is trying to do: “Just as we evolved into language we have to evolve collectively into living transformatively.” Your invitation and permission slip to pick up these practices and make them your own. Navigating by invisible islands.
Meet your facilitators:
Bill Sharpe • Main Facilitator
Bill is a futures practitioner and systems thinker, specialising in the intersection between science, technology, and society. Following a career of innovation in the computer industry he has focussed on helping organisations meet the challenges of a complex and uncertain future. He is known for pioneering the Three Horizons futures practice and is author of Three Horizons: the patterning of hope. Bill is a co-founder of Future Stewards, the home of the Three Horizons Hub, working to build a regenerative future where we meet the needs of all life to flourish within the means of the planet. He is a member of H3Uni and the International Futures Forum with whom he works to build a global commons of futures practice for transformative change.
Yasu Mali • Guest
Yasu has spent the last decade facilitating leadership transformation in service of the earth. She plans to spend the next decade (at least!) supporting the growth of consciousness in humans. Yasu is a strategic director to Naia Trust, an animist steward of capital and a director of Intelligent Life, a platform seeding a new paradigm in human consciousness. She is a co-initiator of the Three Horizons Network, democratizing systems change and futures work. Together with Bill Sharpe, she has trained hundreds of leaders in futures thinking across business, politics, finance, and the third sector. As an Associate at Leaders’ Quest she works with global companies responding to social and ecological pressures. Her great love is Martial Arts which she practices in the North Shaolin Chan Buddhist lineage.
Daniel C. Wahl • Guest
Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the catalysts of the rising reGeneration, one of the original GEESE (founders of Gaia Education), the first author of the GEDS 4 Dimensions and the author of the book Designing Regenerative Cultures and many expressive articles. He works as a consultant, educator and activist with NGOs, businesses, governments and global change agents. With degrees in biology and holistic science, and a PhD in Design for Human and Planetary Health, his work has influenced the emerging fields of regenerative design and salutogenic design. Winner of the 2021 RSA Bicentenary Medal for applying design in service to society. Awarded a two-year Volans-Fellowship in 2022.
Meet your facilitators:
Bill Sharpe • Main Facilitator
Bill is a futures practitioner and systems thinker, specialising in the intersection between science, technology, and society. Following a career of innovation in the computer industry he has focussed on helping organisations meet the challenges of a complex and uncertain future. He is known for pioneering the Three Horizons futures practice and is author of Three Horizons: the patterning of hope. Bill is a co-founder of Future Stewards, the home of the Three Horizons Hub, working to build a regenerative future where we meet the needs of all life to flourish within the means of the planet. He is a member of H3Uni and the International Futures Forum with whom he works to build a global commons of futures practice for transformative change.
Yasu Mali • Guest
Yasu has spent the last decade facilitating leadership transformation in service of the earth. She plans to spend the next decade (at least!) supporting the growth of consciousness in humans. Yasu is a strategic director to Naia Trust, an animist steward of capital and a director of Intelligent Life, a platform seeding a new paradigm in human consciousness. She is a co-initiator of the Three Horizons Network, democratizing systems change and futures work. Together with Bill Sharpe, she has trained hundreds of leaders in futures thinking across business, politics, finance, and the third sector. As an Associate at Leaders’ Quest she works with global companies responding to social and ecological pressures. Her great love is Martial Arts which she practices in the North Shaolin Chan Buddhist lineage.
Daniel C. Wahl • Guest
Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the catalysts of the rising reGeneration, one of the original GEESE (founders of Gaia Education), the first author of the GEDS 4 Dimensions and the author of the book Designing Regenerative Cultures and many expressive articles. He works as a consultant, educator and activist with NGOs, businesses, governments and global change agents. With degrees in biology and holistic science, and a PhD in Design for Human and Planetary Health, his work has influenced the emerging fields of regenerative design and salutogenic design. Winner of the 2021 RSA Bicentenary Medal for applying design in service to society. Awarded a two-year Volans-Fellowship in 2022.
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Have questions? We’ve got answers.
No previous experience is required. All you need is a passion for community building and collaboration.
The course is designed to fit busy schedules with around 10 hours per week of flexible study. Though highly encouraged, Live Sessions are not mandatory and are recorded to be watched later.
Yes! The course provides hands-on tools you can apply immediately in your community.
A comprehensive programme covering four dimensions of sustainability: social, ecological, economic, and worldview.
No prior experience is required. This course is designed for both beginners and advanced learners. Whether you’re new to sustainability or looking to deepen your expertise, the course provides accessible and actionable content for everyone.
Entirely online with live sessions, group discussions, and self-paced assignments. You’ll have access to experienced facilitators, a supportive learning community, and rich resource materials.
Yes, each dimension can be taken as a standalone course, so if you are interested in specific dimensions, you can take them separately. Enrolling in the full course provides a holistic understanding of sustainability and is more cost-effective.
The Design Studio is the integration piece of the GEDS Full programme that you can join after complete the 4 Dimensions.
Participants have life-long access to the course material. Though the course has a defined length, participants can go back to the material any time after the course completion.
