A workshop initially tested 2019, about using systems thinking and futures methods to find a sustainable direction in life.

1. Building sustainable lives with design

2. • Kick off your story for an impactful future
• Stretch our minds and feet
• Mostly offline, except for our walk :)
• A workshop prototype!
Welcome!
Why we are here:

3. Your impact in the world.

4. Setting our strengths free

5. • Welcome
• Why are we here.
• Mapping your strengths.
• Buckminster Fuller methods
• Bucky perspective
• Your impact system
• Lunch according to EAT
• Regenerative systems
• Nature connection bath - a walk
• Future visions
• Storytelling
• Community building
• Roundoff
Agenda

6. Overpowering (climate)
changes
"The Antropocene"
We need to bridge the difference between 'it'
and 'us' and feel empowered to do something.
Because the changes are massive - and more
will come.

7. How can we deal with the future that seems to come?
• The fear and anxiety
• The lack of resources
• The differences between rich and poor
• The refugees
• The nation states vs global societies
Who will you be in the
shadow of the changes?

8. • The idea of the impact/Lief network
• In light of things, how can you change yourself and
your surroundings, how can you have the greatest
impact possible within your life time?
• Move from fear and anxiety to a source of POWER
Our ethical challenge

9. • What is your superpower? [5 mins on post-its]
• How can you help others the most? [5 mins on post-its]
• What can others help you with the most and help set free
your superpower? [5 mins on post-its]
• Share!
Finding your strengths together!

10. Breathe.

11. Buckminster Fuller

12. • One of the earliest to think in systems as a designer and to think
regeneratively/sustainably - actively designing for limited resources: the
World Game.
• Design Science - using science as a grounds for design. It is not merely
a method for building good design, but it is a way to understand our place
in the world, a certain pattern in Universe
• A Design Language he called Synergetics, a "language" describing how
any system functions - synergies such as the strength of the diodesic
domes.
Buckminster Fuller:

14. Bucky perspective
Changing your thinking.
The two perspectives: Being the experiment and the scientist and
asking "How can I create the most impact as a single human?"
= activates the two systems in the brain: thinking fast and slow..
Lets think as him: the most impact possible!

15. Consider how your impact is part of a larger system.
Our impact in a system
You
Society
Nature

16. Start with yourself, connect with society, connect that again with Nature.
Draw your current impact system

17. You
Society
Nature
Work
Family
Strength Curiosity
How do your
resources flow
to certain areas
today?
Helpfulness
Recycle

18. Stretch and breathe.

19. Lunch!

20. There are no wasted resources in a balanced nature.
Nature creates synergies and symbiosis - networks.
One system's waste is another system's gold :)
Regenerative systems

21. Think of the impact system you created before lunch - select an area you felt
inspired to change or improve
Nature connection bath

22. Go for a 30 min walk by yourself and ponder this:
"In 20 years from now - how have you created a balanced flow of resources
for yourself/ your community / your part of nature?"
Nature connection bath

23. Welcome back!

24. Collecting your thoughts
Write down on post-its [5 mins]
Share!
Future visions!

25. Draw and tell it as a story told by your future
self.
How did you get there? What key events did
you encounter?
Your story

26. Share

27. • What does it take to get to your preferred future?
• What do you need from the community?
• Capacities
• Partnerships
• Communities
• ...
Community building

28. Round-off