Co-creating
hopeful, sustainable
futures

I work where science, society, storytelling, and sustainability connect, building capacities to navigate uncertainty and co-create hopeful futures.

Explore my work, creative practices, research and other fine things here.

About Suzanne

Hello! I’m Suzanne.
Futurer by chance. Hopeful by choice. 

I’m a facilitator, science communicator, researcher, and practitioner working where science, society, storytelling, and sustainability connect. I help build the capacities we need to navigate uncertainty and shape change, from communicating evidence to imagining futures to reconnecting with place and possibility.

I am driven by the conviction that it’s possible for us to co-create hopeful, sustainable futures. 

I’ve been doing this over 20 years, with people across the globe, in multiple languages, whilst living in three continents and six countries. It’s diverse, unexpected, and absurdly joyful work.

Suzanne Whitby | Foresight, Futures, Facilitation, & Storytelling

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Recent reflections

Futures facilitators as midwives and death doulas: witnessing disappearance

Futures facilitators as midwives and death doulas: witnessing disappearance

What skills do futurers and futures facilitators need to help people process almost-certain loss? As I am writing this, the concept of a “midwife for death” or a “death doula” keeps coming to mind: depending on the kind of futures facilitation we do, is it necessary for us to learn how to assist in process of both “birthing new ideas” and assisting in the process of allowing old ideas – and attachments – to die?

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How is it possible for an apocalypse scenario to shake US markets?

How is it possible for an apocalypse scenario to shake US markets?

Speculative scenarios have real-world impacts. So where are the scenarios that are so powerful that they boost confidence? Get people thinking and acting? Help us turn away from what’s wrong in our crazy, beautiful world and toward what will help us sustain, regenerative, and thrive?

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