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.
The cohort, the civic hope curriculum and the facilitated group work. Division of responsibilities to be confirmed. VERIFY
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 being asked, not results.
The plan is two pilot cohorts of 15 to 20 participants, with the program refined between the first and the second.
What the cohorts show will be posted here, including what does not work.
Program leads and named facilitators to be confirmed before publication. VERIFY