We have spent many years working with wonderful people like you, and others, who dream of making change for the better. Doctors, teachers, children, carers; rivers, gardens, bees, trees; campaigners, leaders, refugees and neighbours who believe that we could do things differently to make life more joyful, equitable and sustainable. We call it ‘social imagination’.
Despite all this energy, too often we have seen these dreams squashed into conversations and spaces that were too small for them to grow.
Canopy develops and delivers projects that expand the possibility for social imagination in communities, in organisations and in ecosystems.
WHY SOCIAL IMAGINATION?
If we can’t imagine it, we can’t make it happen. We believe that without new and shared imaginations our society will stay stuck in its current destructive and unequal patterns. We know that all of us are deeply imaginative, but society is not set up to support us to imagine together. As a result, the future is always being built based on imaginations that are incomplete, one-sided and disconnected. This is what we seek to change. We seek to create the conditions for new shared imagining, new stories and new action for a better world.
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GET IN TOUCH
We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to work with us, share ideas, or simply to say hello! Get in touch
A COMPASS FOR SOCIAL IMAGINATION
Which way do we turn when we know that new imagination is needed for our situation to be fully alive, in balance and in right relationship? Canopy uses a compass with three directions to guide conversations and projects in the way of social imagination. In pursuit of each direction of the compass, Canopy brings processes, ideas, play and courage to grow imaginative confidence and action with individuals, communities, organisations and ecosystems.
SEEING
Attending to how we see the world: challenging the frames and mental models that keep us stuck in old solutions that aren’t working
BEING
Attending to our ways of being in the world: our creative capacity and confidence, our reflective practice and our ability to work collaboratively and generously
DOING
Attending to our ‘ways of doing’ in the world: bringing the better futures we imagine into reality through leadership, self-organising, and processes for making change happen
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ORGANISATION
We are a not for profit organisation set up to grow the social imagination.
PEOPLE
Canopy is run by two co-directors, Hannah and Jake, experienced facilitators and project designers who bring their creative practice and analytical thinking to shape and hold social imagination projects.
WHAT WE OFFER
We offer different ways of working together depending on what type of work you are interested in.
PUBLIC
Devising and delivering public projects
Sounding board for your ideas
Input to deepen the social imagination component of your project
SYSTEM
Support with:
Research Strategy
Team development
Leadership development
Coaching & facilitation
Design projects
PRACTICE
Practitioner meet-ups
Shared practice blog
Exploring imagination infrastructure
Supporting your Quests
START BY SAYING HELLO!
We love having conversations with new people about your ideas and dreams, as well as the tricky, complex problems you’re trying to tackle. Whether we end up working together or not, we’re up for an informal chat to get to know each other.
GETTING INTO THE CONVERSATION
Using the compass for social imagination
We could start with a conversation using the compass for social imagination to understand what you feel is important to work on. From here we will blend our methods to create a bespoke project to support you to grow social imagination.
Creating the conditions for social imagination
You may like to start by exploring the conditions for growing social imagination. We can work together to develop these conditions to support the work you want to do.
We love hearing from new people. Please do drop us a line!
Email us here:
hello[at]canopy.si