The Just Imagine programme in the small town of Bethel, Maine, led to the opening of a community-owned coffee shop. At a deeper level, community visions appear to work because they engage our imagination. We need a change of habits and values if we are to foster more ecologically sustainable and socially inclusive ways of living. Visions of the 'future' do this by enabling people to think differently about their lives. In engaging our sense of the possible and of the ideal through countless small-scale initiatives, community visioning offers people who are concerned with the environment, who practise complementary health, go to church, or who are active in women's groups, LETs, peace groups or civic trusts, an opportunity to create and confirm a more positive future.
Imagination is the most powerful tool for social change.
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