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How to Fall In Love with the Future with Rob Hopkins

April 8, 2026

12:00 pm

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1:30 pm

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What might become possible in our communities if we took local imagination as seriously as we take local infrastructure? How might rural places – and the people rooted in them – become catalysts for the kinds of futures we long for but rarely pause to articulate?

Join Radically Rural and otherWise for a 90-minute online session with Rob Hopkins, renowned imagination activist, co-founder of the Transition Town movement, and author of How to Fall in Love with the Future. Rob’s work invites us to consider a simple but transformative idea: that vivid, sensory, grounded imaginations of better futures can sharpen our sense of agency right now – especially in times of uncertainty or erosion.

By taking a more fluid and playful approach to time, by creating lived experiences of a future, resulting from our doing everything we could possibly have done, we can map out a route to inspire change.

Entry to this community gathering if free for all and offered in the spirit of the gift.

Full Description

Together, we will:

  • Hear Rob share insights from his newest book, How to Fall in Love with the Future (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2025).
  • Engage in a collective imagination practice—a guided “Time Travel” exercise—to experience how imagination can function as a practical, effective, and even essential tool for local resilience, rural revitalization, and cooperative economic possibility.
  • Dream forward with others invested in rural creativity, economies of vitality, and community-shaped change.

No preparation is required, though participants may enjoy this Upstream Podcast conversation between Rob and Della Duncan, which offers a vibrant primer on his newest work.

This session is for anyone who is – or longs to be – engaged in the hard, hopeful labor of strengthening place-rooted communities and closing the gap between what currently is and what still might be. Whether you’re a town leader exploring more resilient infrastructures, a farmer dreaming of shared land tending, a tinkerer preparing for lower- and cleaner-energy futures, a creative working to bring beauty into a troubled transitional era, or simply someone who cares deeply about the future of your place – there’s a spot in this time machine for you.

Brought to you with care by Radically Rural and otherWise – two organizations unafraid to speak plainly about the present predicament and committed to responding with care, humility, and a whole lot of heart.

Buy the Book, with discount code: CGP35