Can strengthening hope help social change leaders build better collective futures?
People who work on social change spend their days holding a possible future in mind on behalf of other people. That is demanding, and it wears down. When a leader can no longer picture the thing they are working toward, the work slows before anyone can name why.
The Hope Lab treats hope as a practical capability rather than a mood: something that can be learned, practised and strengthened deliberately. This is also where the MyWhatIf architecture reaches past individual trauma recovery for the first time.
A hope researcher, lecturer and mental-health occupational therapist, and a core partner in the Center for Civic Hope at Tel Aviv University, where hope is taught, practiced and explored as a personal and civic resource.
Website ↗Structured learning about hope as it applies to civic and collective work.
Facilitated sessions where a cohort works through what they are carrying together.
The individual experience: a participant brings their own What If and explores where it leads. What a person actually does →
Human support alongside the program, one to one and in the cohort.
The individual narrative experience, and the measurement around it.
TAU Impact and the Tel Aviv University Center for Civic Hope.
Whether a structured process of this kind strengthens a leader's ability to imagine shared futures, get past the barriers in front of them, and turn hope into action other people will join. The program explores possible relevance to navigating uncertainty, future imagination, agency, mobilizing others, organizational effectiveness and social impact. These are the questions the program asks, not results.
The Hope Lab is open now, with cohorts designed for approximately 15–20 participants. Cohort dates and the program timeline are not yet published.
What the cohorts show will be posted here, including what does not work.
