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The Practice of Possibility

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What if transformation isn't something we build from scratch but something waiting to be recognised in what already exists? This isn't positive thinking or wishful dreaming – it's a rigorous practice of seeing differently, of noticing configurations that conventional perspectives miss.
In an increasingly fragmented and polarised world, transformation often emerges precisely where others see only division. Where conventional approaches encounter irreconcilable differences, narrative prefiguration, the Democracy School's core methodology, reveals connection points that transform conflict into collaborative possibility. Instead of positioning change as distant goals reached through linear progress, it shows how alternative futures exist now as present possibilities, waiting to be actualised through different forms of engagement.
The most remarkable moments of change often don't announce themselves with fanfare. They emerge in that instant when someone helps us recognise connections we hadn't seen, capacities we'd overlooked, or possibilities that were present all along but invisible within our usual frameworks. Narrative prefiguration offers a methodology for cultivating such recognition, working with fragmentation and conflict to forge pathways for navigating contemporary challenges.
Read more about this practice and the theory behind it and explore Narrative-based Action Learning and Narrative Coaching, or contact us to continue the conversation.

Publications

  • The Democracy School Story [PDF]
  • 100 Iterations of Collapse, Algorithmic Images of Resistance [PDF]
  • Emergence of the Cube Problem: An Art-Based Research Inquiry [PDF]
  • The Cubic Order: Technological Control, Environmental Collapse, and Resistance [PDF]
  • The Concept and Methodology of Narrative Prefiguration [PDF]
  • The Practice of Possibility [PDF]

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