Reimagining the Future

An energising practical workshop to activate your imagination and motivate change for sustainability
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  • Cornwall (Venue TBC)

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Are you ready to transform your organisation with science-backed psychology and create a more sustainable future? Do you and your teams need the motivation to turn your climate aspirations into reality? If so, this is the course you've been waiting for!
Join psychologists Professor Jackie Andrade and Dr Jon Rhodes , co-developers of functional imagery training, and imagination catalyst and time traveller Rob Hopkins who will train you to harness your imagination. You will develop your sensory skills to envisage succeeding in your climate ambitions, helping you unlock your full potential to drive real action.
What will you gain?
  • Cultivate the collective power of imagination through interactive, memorable hands-on activities.
  • Exploring your personal values to communicate with authenticity.
  • Motivate teams to sustain their efforts towards challenging goals.
  • Acquire new perspectives that will stretch your ambition through the power of asking "What If...?"
  • Empower yourself with a renewed sense of optimism, arming you with the confidence to tackle climate challenges head on.
Apply now and take your first bold step toward making a lasting difference within your organisation and beyond!
This course is fully funded for organisations in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly through the Future is Green short courses project.
This course is subject to funding by the Good Growth Fund.
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Key details:

Refreshments: Delicious complimentary lunch and refreshments included.
Course fee: Free!
Eligibility: This course is exclusively available to Cornish or Isles of Scilly businesses.
Who is it for: Whether you're an individual eager to grow or a team looking to level up together, this course is designed for you!
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 29 April 2025
To apply: Simply fill out the expression of interest form or contact greenskills@plymouth.ac.uk and a member of our team will get back to you.

Facilitators

  • Rob Hopkins Photo: Miriam Klingl Werde

    Rob Hopkins

  • Professor Jackie Andrade

    Jackie Andrade

  • Jon Rhodes

    Dr Jon Rhodes

Dr Rob Hopkins
Dr Rob Hopkins: Founder of Transition Towns and author of From What Is to What If and How to Fall in Love with the Future, Rob delivers imagination training across Europe to businesses including Patagonia, London Marathon Group and Balenciaga, local authorities and community groups, and has developed many immersive tools to help organisations stretch and exercise their imaginations!

Professor Jackie Andrade
Professor Jackie Andrade: Jackie specialises in the psychological processes underpinning human motivation, and is one of the developers of Functional Imagery Training (FIT), which combines motivational interviewing with multisensory mental imagery training to create desire for behavioural steps towards a goal.


Dr Jon Rhodes
Dr Jon Rhodes: Author of The Choice Point, Jon predominantly works in performance enhancement, motivation and the development and refinement of FIT. Jon has provided support to premiership rugby and football players, Olympic and Commonwealth Games athletes alongside organisations such as IBM and Citadel.

Future is Green

The Future is Green is a collaborative project that delivers skills development courses and programmes to individuals across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to support the development of skills needed for the future green economy.
The project is being delivered by the Net-Zero Exchange team, within the Sustainable Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth.
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The Future is Green project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
 
 

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