Fall in Love with the Future: Reclaiming Imagination in the Age of Collapse with Rob Hopkins

What if your eco-anxiety, your grief about the climate, or your sense that the future feels canceled… are actually signs that your imagination is trying to wake up?Rob Hopkins founded the Transition Towns movement and has spent decades asking one question: what if things could be otherwise? His books — From What Is to What If and How to Fall in Love with the Future — make the case that the imagination crisis is the climate crisis.In this episode, you'll learn:Why imagination declined in the 1990s — and the neuroscience behind itHow chronic stress shrinks the hippocampus and steals your ability to envision a hopeful futureWhy cultivating longing is more powerful than sharing more climate informationWhat "sensual futuring" means and how to make the future feel real in your bodyHow Afro Futurism, Solarpunk, and regenerative communities are already building the world we wantWe also do a live guided time travel meditation to 2036 — the future we built by doing everything we possibly could.Connect with MeganInstagram: @megandlambertWebsite & programs: www.megandlambert.comApply for 1:1 or Couple's Coaching: megandlambert.as.me/discovery-callEpisode ResourcesFrom What Is to What If — Rob Hopkins (book)How to Fall in Love with the Future — Rob Hopkins (book)On Sensual Futuring — Wasima Lambert (article, find online)Demain (Tomorrow) — 2015 documentaryWe Do This Till We Free Us — Mariame Kaba (book)Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson (book)Any Human Power — Amanda Scott (book)The Time Traveler's Gazette newsletter — robhopkins.netPositive News — positivenews.org.ukJoanna Macy's Work That Reconnects — workthatreconnects.orgThe Good Grief Network — goodgriefnetwork.orgTransition Towns Network — transitionnetwork.orgRob on Instagram: @robhopkins5085