Get ready for The Multiplicity.
This workshop engaged participants to co-create multiple personal futures in large and small group collaboration. This social design experiment in personal foresight generated the creation of possible personal scenarios for the challenging next-future term possibilities. We started by creating a personal profile for the Low Tech Social Network. Communities listed on the profiles were shared in the closing circle to co-create a living network among the participants.
An amazing array of participants were involved, suggesting that DwD is reaching beyond its business + creatives + designerly roots. More and more people from dedicated social change communities are engaged and returning. While businesses can benefit from and afford these creative group processes, social change agents need to learn from each other. A community across communities is forming.
The event was framed by the question of considering the multiple futures we have choice to create. When we think of the future, we tend to push a vague collection of dreams, possibilities and wishes out to a speculative point in the years following the nearest term. We can guess about the world in two years, we can plan for 5 years, but 10 and 20 years challenge personal vision. Our concept was to confront the future opportunities for humanity, by learning to position our own inherent multiplicities as creative narratives to counter a technologically-determined future, whether a career ideal or the “singularity.”
The venue supported the creation of a circle and pairs for the exercises:
- Values conflicts at the Crossroads
- 3 Whys of 3 Values: Core values, Calling values, Contra values
- Mapping Values to Actions
- Mapping Value-Actions to future possibilities in the Pathway template
The workshop was convened by Peter Jones and Patricia Kambitsch (visual reflection) at The Design Exchange Feb 24th in the DX boardroom as part of the Toronto Design Week Design Offsite Festival.





Passion in Action: What is your Calling?
Vanessa Judelman of Mosaic People Development hosted the April 2012 DwD.
THE WORKSHOP
Everyone has a life purpose. It is the reason we are on this planet. It is the thing we are meant to accomplish, the gift we are meant to bring.
The session explored:
Download the session exercise handout.
Vanessa Judelman is president of Mosaic People Development. a company that develops great leaders and builds collaborative teams. She has 15 years of experience as a facilitator, trainer and certified coach. In her coaching practice, she is passionate about helping others to find their purpose and enjoy a truly fulfilling life.
She is noted as an expert in her industry and has been published and quoted in The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Her clients include Torstar Digital, Blakes LLP, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, United Nations, Motorola and Ovarian Cancer Canada.
Opening circle conversation "What would a fulfilling life be like for you?"
Breakout group in conversation
Wheel of Life (handout exercise)