<p>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?</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, you'll learn:</p><p></p><ul><li>Why imagination declined in the 1990s — and the neuroscience behind it</li><li>How chronic stress shrinks the hippocampus and steals your ability to envision a hopeful future</li><li>Why cultivating longing is more powerful than sharing more climate information</li><li>What "sensual futuring" means and how to make the future feel real in your body</li><li>How Afro Futurism, Solarpunk, and regenerative communities are already building the world we want</li></ul><p></p><p>We also do a live guided time travel meditation to 2036 — the future we built by doing everything we possibly could.</p><p></p><hr /><p></p><p><b>Connect with Megan</b></p><ul><li>Instagram: @megandlambert</li><li>Website &amp; programs:<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.megandlambert.com" target="_blank"> www.megandlambert.com</a></li><li>Apply for 1:1 or Couple's Coaching: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call" target="_blank">megandlambert.as.me/discovery-call</a></li></ul><p></p><hr /><p></p><p><b>Episode Resources</b></p><ul><li>From What Is to What If — Rob Hopkins (book)</li><li>How to Fall in Love with the Future — Rob Hopkins (book)</li><li>On Sensual Futuring — Wasima Lambert (article, find online)</li><li>Demain (Tomorrow) — 2015 documentary</li><li>We Do This Till We Free Us — Mariame Kaba (book)</li><li>Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson (book)</li><li>Any Human Power — Amanda Scott (book)</li><li>The Time Traveler's Gazette newsletter — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://robhopkins.net" target="_blank">robhopkins.net</a></li><li>Positive News — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://positivenews.org.uk" target="_blank">positivenews.org.uk</a></li><li>Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://workthatreconnects.org" target="_blank">workthatreconnects.org</a></li><li>The Good Grief Network — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://goodgriefnetwork.org" target="_blank">goodgriefnetwork.org</a></li><li>Transition Towns Network — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://transitionnetwork.org" target="_blank">transitionnetwork.org</a></li><li>Rob on Instagram: @robhopkins5085</li></ul>