Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
Just what is an imaginal activist?
Someone who imagines past what is to what can be, and births new ideas for how our lives, our communities, our planet can be more glorious than they are.
Someone who dares to bring their world to life in new ways.
Here, we will be celebrating the imaginal activists among us…in every discipline, and in every corner of the world.
If you know of someone who you think is re-imagining the world in wonderful ways, please let us know!
What are your ideas? And how can we help you multiply them?
This site is a project of The Imaginal Institute.
Imagination is a key to engaging the world with openness and passion. Without it, we have no empathy, no ability to look beyond the immediacy of our experience, no tools with which to analyze what we are told, taught, and shown. It is crucial to making meaning, and is a most powerful agent of change: if we cannot imagine other possibilities in either our own lives or in the communities around us, we cannot not move from our current circumstances.
Ultimately, imagination is, as French mathematician and philosopher Gaston Bachelard writes, “a voyage into the land of the infinite.” Through its various projects, the Institute seeks to be a vessel for that voyage.
