Beyond the Horizon of Possibility

A lot of people feel that the gap between “what needs to be done” and “what we can do” is hard to bridge, not least at local and regional levels.

Beyond the Horizon of Possibility workshop practice will help you to make sustainability transitions feel possible and to create a local context in which interest can turn into action, together with others, including and inviting people who have not engaged with these issues before.

Some ideas to practise Beyond the horizon of possibility

Beyond the Horizon of Possibility is a workshop method for supporting exploratory conversations about sustainability transitions in different contexts as a district, village, town, workplace or region, to inspire and engage more people in local efforts towards a regenerative low carbon society. The workshop can be organised on-site (face-to-face) or remotely (online).

The workshop is based on counterfactual history or past-casting, making the assumption that the financial crisis of 2008 was actually an energy crisis and that we acted accordingly, with the result that we today only use half of the oil compared to what we actually do.

Transition Network Sweden, together with researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden, has developed this workshop method, where different local stakeholders work together on a thought experiment aimed at reducing this gap, thereby stimulating and planting seeds for action.