AtQ – What do You Want to Envision?

Exploring Powerful Questions

In this week’s Talking Note, I explore the idea that without a different vision for what life can be life, human beings – especially tribes – are predisposed to disagreement and war. I have talked about war and warring before (here and here), but this was the first time that a possible practical solution came up for me.

Visioning is often considered a soft exercise. Left for the “visionaries” in corporate culture, the artists, or those who practice manifestation, visioning gets a reputation for being an exclusive, elitist, or elusive skill. It is none of those things, and in fact is required for any change to occur. The bigger the change we are trying to initiate (like a predisposition to war), the more concrete the vision of change needs to be.

We might not have a practice of envisioning (what some might call imagining), which is why this week’s question starts where it starts. We begin, not with the vision itself, but with the desire to cultivate a particular vision. We start by asking…

What do you want to envision?