Future Folktales

Long-Term Orientation and Visioning Creativity Hope and Optimism

Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective

Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator

Trust · group readiness★any

Disclosure · what is sharedoptional

Over a multi-session arc, participants craft folktales told FROM a regenerative future — drawing on future visions to build narratives of being, not just technology — and tell them as folktales are told: aloud, shaped, carried. Long-term orientation trained through the oldest narrative technology there is.

Practical

Time: 480-2880 min
Group: 5–50 · small-group
Settings: in-person, online
Materials: Future-vision inputs; writing materials
Mechanisms: narrative-identity, creative-expression, perspective-taking
Change scope: state → skill · program-embedded

Origin & where it lives

Shweta Srivastav, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA) — Futures narrative / storytelling pedagogy

Instructions: open online

In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox

Related: letter from the future (pairs-with)

status: checked · added 2026-08-25