exercise · all tools
Letter from the Future
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Each person writes a letter to themselves AS a human living one or two centuries from now — offering counsel, gratitude, and encouragement to the person working at this hinge of history. Solo writing (~10 minutes), then voluntary sharing in small groups. Deep Time made personal and portable.
Prerequisites
- Sharing is optional — the letter is complete unread
Practical
- Time
- 40 min + 10 landing
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual, small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online, self-guided
- Materials
- Paper and pen; quiet
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, narrative-identity, creative-expression
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- workthatreconnects.org/resources/letter-from-the-future — The Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy & Molly Brown), open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- Open source — "a gift freely given" (Work That Reconnects); acknowledge the source: WTR, Joanna Macy as root teacher, and named adapters
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
Joanna Macy — The Work That Reconnects (Deep Time stage)
In this directory via The Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy & Molly Brown)
Related: Seventh Generation (pairs-with) · Meet Yourself at 90 (alternative-to)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25