Imaginal Thinking · The 7-Step Process

A mindset that enables an organization to envision, evaluate, and forge its own future.

Imaginal Thinking is the practice of visualizing, learning from, and actively shaping the future. It is rooted in futurism and future studies, but goes further — embracing a creative, co-designing role in creating the future. It is not reactive, but proactive.

Imaginal Thinking · The 7-Step Process

A mindset that enables an organization to envision, evaluate, and forge its own future.

Imaginal Thinking is the practice of visualizing, learning from, and actively shaping the future. It is rooted in futurism and future studies, but goes further — embracing a creative, co-designing role in creating the future. It is not reactive, but proactive.

Imaginal Thinking · The 7-Step Process

A mindset that enables an organization to envision, evaluate, and forge its own future.

Imaginal Thinking is the practice of visualizing, learning from, and actively shaping the future. It is rooted in futurism and future studies, but goes further — embracing a creative, co-designing role in creating the future. It is not reactive, but proactive.

Our envisioned future scenarios are never the end — they are the means: catalysts that spark new perspectives and challenge the status quo. Imaginal Thinking disrupts conventional patterns and leads people into unexplored territories of the mind.

Our envisioned future scenarios are never the end — they are the means: catalysts that spark new perspectives and challenge the status quo. Imaginal Thinking disrupts conventional patterns and leads people into unexplored territories of the mind.

Fig. 1 — the Imaginal Thinking Seven-Step Process, drawn as a circular flow (from the Imaginal Transformation Fieldbook) — coming soon

The seven steps

Select a step to explore it.

Are we ready to face the future? Do we have intent? What conditions — physical, mental, and spiritual — must be set to explore our future? Is there a Big Why?

Environment — a specialized space (the Imaginal Lab) for collaboration and releasing the Imaginal spirit.

Culture — an Imaginal Organization culture that embraces the tension between the innovation and performance “engines.”

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Imaginal Thinking is all about transformation — which often leads to profound personal change.

Thomas Rudmik, 2020

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Imaginal Thinking is all about transformation — which often leads to profound personal change.

Thomas Rudmik, 2020

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Imaginal Thinking is all about transformation — which often leads to profound personal change.

Thomas Rudmik, 2020

Experience the process for your organization.

Experience the process for your organization.

Experience the process for your organization.