Vision Questions - Home

I wanted to follow-up on my recent post titled “Visions” . I plan to post a series of questions based on Donella Meadows essay “Envisioning a Sustainable World” in the coming days. I put the questions together to use as a guide for a small group of folks I meet with to help us develop a personal vision for our future. I thought they might be useful for leaders to use to help develop your own sense of what you would like the future to be.

The questions delve into how you see your future -- Home, Community, Work, Nation, and Worldview. Use them to help answer the question “What kind of sustainable world do you WANT to live in?” Don’t get hung up on how you would make it happen or constraints of our present world that get in the way of your vision of the world. Don’t worry about what others may think about your vision; it’s your vision so dream big. Skip questions/topics that aren’t relevant, add those that might be missing, and skip around – there is no order to how to build your dream.

I would appreciate any suggestions you have or insights you would be willing to share on your own vision.

YOUR HOME

What do YOU want for yourself; your children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents, neighbors?

What would your home be like in a sustainable world?

What do you need to thrive – what would your clothing needs be, hobbies, education, what “stuff” would you need?

What would it feel like to wake up in the morning?

Who else would live there; how would it feel to be with them?

Where would energy, food, water, and other goods come from?

What kinds of wastes would be generated and where would they go?

When you look out the window or step out the door, what would it look like, if it looked the way you really want?

Who else lives near you (human and non-human)? How do you all interrelate?