method · all tools
Future Folktales
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
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/future-folktales — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Shweta Srivastav, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA) — Futures narrative / storytelling pedagogy
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
Related: Letter from the Future (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25