Imaginal Thinking · The Imaginal Workshop

Where leaders learn to pull the future into the now.

The Imaginal Workshop is an immersive, facilitated experience that takes a leadership team through the seven-step Imaginal Thinking process — in the Imaginal Lab, a specialized space designed to release the Imaginal spirit and turn future scenarios into innovation projects.

Imaginal Thinking · The Imaginal Workshop

Where leaders learn to pull the future into the now.

The Imaginal Workshop is an immersive, facilitated experience that takes a leadership team through the seven-step Imaginal Thinking process — in the Imaginal Lab, a specialized space designed to release the Imaginal spirit and turn future scenarios into innovation projects.

Imaginal Thinking · The Imaginal Workshop

Where leaders learn to pull the future into the now.

The Imaginal Workshop is an immersive, facilitated experience that takes a leadership team through the seven-step Imaginal Thinking process — in the Imaginal Lab, a specialized space designed to release the Imaginal spirit and turn future scenarios into innovation projects.

What happens in the room

From envisioned scenarios to bona-fide projects.

See the futures

Teams surface weak signals and trends, then build possible, probable, and plausible future scenarios.

Backcast the path

Working backward from a chosen future to map the milestones and obstacles between here and there.

Create the future

Opportunity zones become ideation, design thinking, and bona-fide innovation projects.

Since 2013

Workshops around the world.

Imaginal Leaders Transformation Workshops (ILTW) and Imaginal Thinking Workshops (ITW) have been run with educators, business leaders, and governments across four continents.

ILTW · Our first Imaginal Leaders Transformation Workshop — Nigeria, November 2013

ILTW · Full workshop video — Nigeria, November 2013

ITW · Jacto Group senior leadership team, on unleashing the innovative spirit — Brazil, May 2016

ITW · The 3-day Pathogen Economy workshop, sponsored by Uganda’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation — Kampala, Uganda, May 2022

ILTW · Imaginal Leaders Transformation Workshop — Spain, October 2015

ILTW · Imaginal Leaders Transformation Workshop — Australia, January 2014

ILTW · Imaginal Leaders Transformation Workshop — Paraguay, July 2025

Built on the seven steps

Every workshop follows one official process.

Setting Conditions, Learning from the Past, Present, and Futures, Redefining Strategic Focus, and Creating the Future — the same seven steps that guide every Imaginal Thinking engagement, drawn from the Imaginal Transformation Fieldbook.

Explore the 7-step process

Bring an Imaginal Workshop to your leadership team.

Bring an Imaginal Workshop to your leadership team.

Bring an Imaginal Workshop to your leadership team.