The New Futures Project
Build tomorrows we look forward to!
The New Futures Project is a multi-year, multi-phase initiative that invites our congregation to imagine—and actively shape—the future we hope to leave to our children, grandchildren, and beyond. Together, we’re working to define a shared vision of a just, vibrant, compassionate, joyful, and sustainable horizon. But we’re not stopping at ideas: we’re turning that vision into meaningful, collective action that creates real change. Led by the New Futures leadership team and Rabbi Kolin, this initiative offers gatherings and programs that empower us to become the architects of our shared future.
New Futures: Exploring Futures Thinking
What?
“Futures thinking” is a structured, creative, collaborative process. Groups use it to explore multiple, plausible scenarios of the future. It frees people from having to assume that one future is the only possible future.
Why?
We’re living with so much uncertainty and fear. We do a lot to address urgent injustice and suffering.
We know that futures thinking helps us to feel hope! And it allows us to “back solve” for the future we want, making effort more effective, so that – maybe in the future – we won’t need to be doing the short term work.
“The future we are building—together”
The New Futures Project has begun this work with the congregation—click here to learn about past events like the Text of Imagination and the Art of Imagination, and to learn more about how our project started!
Join this work!
Since Spring 2024, congregants have played with the ideas and tools of futures thinking, to develop a shared understanding of our experiences, and a shared vision of futures we might prefer.
What do you want the world to look like in 2076? What do we need to do now to make that happen?
Join us as we apply our community’s values and imaginations to concrete issues to build lasting change.