How To Fall In Love With The Future
Rob Hopkins is the first person I’ve heard be excited for the future in many years.
The week after I stepped back into the Executive Director role at Groundwork, I listened to this podcast, and recognized that our organization is one that people look to for hope and to feel excited about the future too. Listening to Rob, I heard so many similar influences coming together. Rob’s exercises he leads people through are so similar to our curriculum in our Food Systems Fellowship that I felt an immediate kinship. As I’ve sorted through where Groundwork is headed over the coming year, Rob’s positivity about the future has been one of the biggest influences that you’ll probably recognize throughout this newsletter. His language of longing for a beautiful future and of falling in love with the future is just what our world needs right now, and I’ve been borrowing it with his blessing.
Rob Hopkins has for many decades been a storyteller working on climate change. He is a co-founder of the Transition movement that has helped communities around the world organize towards and post-carbon future. His town in the UK, Totnes, was the first Transition Town. Recently, his work honed in on imagination and people’s capacity to see themselves in a future they want to live in. Rob comes at imagination in a playful way that incorporates time travel, sensory exercises, and a lightness that is much needed in our world. This interview was a breath of fresh air for me, and I hope it will be for you too.