Imagine Chicago
Bliss Browne. Publicado más completo en Indagación Apreciativa, Miriam Subirana y David Cooperrider, Ed. Kairós, 2013.

Imagine Chicago has been committed to discovering and embodying as a way of life since 1992 and now is alive on six continents in other ‘Imagine’ initiatives.
Imagine Chicago was founded to cultivate hope and civic engagement by inviting people into a conversation with the future, across boundaries of age, race and class, and then developing uncommon, practical and inspiring partnerships which act on behalf of the expanded common good. It has worked at every level of the change process: understanding the best of what is, imagining what can be, and creating what will be, harnessing imagination as a resource for personal, institutional and community change

We have found so far that to give birth to collective dreams first requires shifting how we speak and see, where our attention is. Many people live, some by choice, in isolated communities, which has led to a loss of imagination and connection. We must risk moving to the edge of established comfort zones, encountering people different from us who challenge our worldviews and language and open our minds. The next move is to listen carefully, to ‘walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.’ Hearing what others have lived, what it is possible to live, stretches our imagination about life.

Deep change can emerge once we are able not only to digest necessary information, redesign structures, and reframe mindsets but attend to and align our actions with sources of collective inspiration and will, becoming faithful to one another and the future which is trying to emerge.