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Futurs Proches hosts imagination-fueled collaborative writing workshops to explore different themes related to transition, resilience and collapse. We are convinced that, little by little, these stories of a new genre will dominate our representations and positively permeate our minds. Our hope is that if they are widely shared, they will help shape desired landscapes, societies and organizations.

NearbyFutures is a non-profit organisation created by Nicolas Gluzman. An ordinary citizen searching for answers to his own questions, Nicolas wanted to explore the issues of transition, resilience and collapse through the mechanics of storytelling. It brings together around 60 facilitators who put their skills at the service of civic engagement for inspiring futures.

What do our workshops look like?

We usually bring together enthusiastic people who are split up into groups. Each group, roughly 4-5 people, work together to produce a story they’ll read out by the end of the workshop. Our facilitators set up the right conditions to unleash your imagination, structure the writing of the story and keep the theme in your story.

Each sub-group is led by a facilitator trained in the method. The stories are then published on our blog under the “Creative Commons – Attribution CC BY” license.

Participants enjoy meeting kindred spirits, and experience the pleasure and excitement of working creatively against a deadline. find in our workshops the pleasure of reappropriating their imaginations and of new encounters to move their convictions.