Applying collective imagination practice in government contexts

Collective Imagination Practice Community — Introducing 3 Huddles, now open for sign up!

Now in its second year, the Collective Imagination Practice Community (CIPC) is bringing a new set of Huddles to the world in June 2024. Funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Emerging Futures Team and stewarded by Huddlecraft and Canopy, the Huddles will focus on the application of collective imagination practices within local and national government. Each Huddle will invite 6 government practitioners and 6 collective imagination practitioners.

What are Huddles?

Huddles are peer-to-peer learning journeys where individuals can incubate their ideas and practice over a period of time, with the accountability and support of a community. They are purposeful peer groups that allow people to show up with safety, to experiment, to grow and move together.

Huddles x Collective Imagination

Huddles x Collective Imagination

Since commencing the CIPC project, we have been using the Huddle container to convene collective imagination practitioners, to seed new imaginaries and to deepen and broaden practice across the community. Collective imagination aims to find new and innovative ways to address structural and societal challenges, by unleashing and combining more of the unlimited potential of the human imagination. In order to transition to a more just and equitable society we need to grow our collective capacity to imagine and build those futures. Collective imagination practice offers an alternative approach to meeting these challenges, helping groups and organisations navigate alternative routes to change.

The 3 Huddles we’re launching this year seek to explore how collective imagination practice can be applied in contexts that hold significant power and influence, and face complex challenges. We’ll be bringing collective imagination practitioners together with people whose work connects to local and central government, to create an impactful peer exchange.

We aim to:

1. Learn about how to develop a shared culture in which collective imagination can flourish and influence institutional decision-making.
2. Create the conditions for new kinds of relationships to form, in service of social change.
3. To create opportunities for a diverse group of people to have experiences that expand possibilities, build skills and evolve practice.

So, invitations are open for 3 Huddles

All Huddles run between July — October, and applications are now open. For more information and to apply, click on the links:

1/ Collective Imagination X Local Government

Deepening local democracy and participation through collective imagination.

For: People working in UK local authorities and collective imagination practitioners

Find out more and apply here.

2/ Collective Imagination X Government Innovation

Applying collective imagination to re-shape our centres of power.

For: People working in government innovation labs and collective imagination practitioners

Find out more and apply here.

3/ Connected Lives (Newham, East London, UK)

Enabling relationships for flourishing communities in Newham.

For: Newham council staff, local community leaders in Newham, collective imagination practitioners

Find out more and apply here.

Huddles not for you but interested to find out more about the CIPC? Head here…

• Collective Imagination Practice Community: Year 2
• Collective Imagination Practice Fund: Year 2