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CFL is a distributed digital playground for transformative thinking and ripple-effect innovation.
Curious? Read on!
Welcome to
Creative Futures LAb
Where innovation meets introspection and our future is open, debated, tested and refined.
about us
The future is open :
At Creative Futures LAB we make the most of it.
Whether it’s the next 5 minutes or the next 500 years. The present - this moment, right now - is the fulcrum on which the shape and quality of later ultimately depends.
Your Digital Sandbox :
At the intersection of personal transformation and social innovation, the LAB is a digitally distributed prototyping playground where revelation and experimentation go hand in hand. You’re not just a visitor here; you're an integral part of an ecosystem in which attention is treated as a precious and limited resource.
We're dedicated to affecting both immediate change and lasting ripples through time and space.
Helping change makers ‘be the change’:
Our farsighted tools and processes help value based change makers work with themselves in ways that inform, support, and amplify their work with others.
Who we are
Label Breaking Leadership :
Join a growing community of forward-thinkers connected by resistance to simple categorization — futures architects, impact-entrepreneurs, conscious creatives, and other change agents with an equal appetite for contribution and disruption.
Defiant Optimists :
At Creative Futures LAB, richer futures are both the path and the goal.
We’re aiming to become a bridge-building workshop where present day conditions and the ‘future’ alike are formless clay, ready to be squeezed, stretched, pushed, and molded.
what we do
A transdisciplinary perspective :
Harnessing insights from diverse fields like evolutionary biology, neuroscience, Eastern philosophy, speculative design, and systems thinking, we aim to solve society's most complex challenges—those tricky, "wicked" problems that defy easy solutions.
A Multifaceted Response :
We offer online experiences in meaning making, habit shaping, and co-creative world building that facilitate emotional balance, foster cognitive flexibility, and facilitate deep human connection.
WHY it matters
An Extraordinary Moment :
We're in an unprecedented age of opportunity, with more resources, knowledge, and connectivity than ever before.
Recent innovations have improved our collective quality of life, giving us all better health, greater wealth, and a breadth of opportunities unimaginable a century ago.
The Paradox :
Alongside these advances, we've ushered in a host of challenges no one wants.
Climate crisis aside, we inhabit a distracted, polarized, stressful, and lonely world.
We're flooded with information but starved for meaning.
Despite all that we have, we lack effective skills and tools to navigate disagreements, nurture trust in relationship, and cope with to daily struggles.
Our Commitment :
Creative Futures LAB is on a mission to flip the script.
A rapidly changing global landscape characterized by instability, uncertainty, ambiguity and inundation of stimulus with increasingly less opportunity to digest and assimilate information requires a multifaceted, dynamic response.
We're developing novel methods to meet complex social-emotional challenges, and moving away from binary problem-solution paradigms that foster division and inflexibility.
Our antidote to reductive thinking and polarizations is encouraging nuanced perspectives and a deeper understanding of the complex realities that shape our lives now through the lens of how we want our lives to look tomorrow
How We Build :
We're crafting a blueprint to enhance effective communication and encourage creative problem-solving. Our tools support intense emotions and empower skillful navigation of a fast evolving landscape.
The Future We Envision:
We're not building more ‘stuff’; we're crafting a world where curiosity quiets conflict. Where personal dignity elevates public dialogue. And where the pursuit of awe partners our pursuit of data.
Join Us
IN Pioneering Change
Experience shows that familiarity with the operating system of body, speech, and mind is an unrivaled laboratory for understanding, and ultimately transforming our world.
Our LAB Experiments and Subversive Wellness Programs invite you to shape tomorrow, today, synthesizing inner ownership, outer contribution, and boundless imagination.
If you resonate with reimagining well-being, harnessing emergent technologies, and redesigning default decision pathways toward a more expansive and resilient future, you’ve found your tribe!
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Yesterday's impossibilities are today's norms.
With your help, CFL can be tomorrow’s status quo.
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