Read the conditions
A first look at changing conditions, lived experience, and the questions that bring people into the work.
Rootstock online learning
Find your way into Rootstock.
Start with what has your attention. Explore a question, bring your own tools, and follow a path from noticing to imagining to building.
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These album-style covers and outlines help us test the flow. The learning will grow through participation.
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Rootstock sessions that meet you where you are.
Sort by level or topic. Nothing here assumes you already know the language of futures work.
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Preview set: 8 sessions
8 preview sessions
Meet the forces shaping the future
An accessible entry into the four forces Future Bound keeps in view: climate, technology, economy, and governance.
Find the question that opens a door
Practice moving from a familiar problem toward a question that makes room for possibility, agency, and participation.
Imagine otherwise
A guided practice for questioning inevitability and making alternatives visible enough to discuss.
Work backwards from a livable future
Use a future condition as a starting point, then trace the choices, capacities, and relationships needed to reach it.
Bring your own AI practice
Meet the tools people already use, name where confidence is strong or growing, and keep the learning participant-led.
Prototype a local intervention
Turn a shared question into a small, testable intervention that can teach the group something real.
Turn learning into collective power
Connect insight, participation, and experimentation to the structures communities can build, govern, and repair together.
The Rootstock through-line
Find your own way through.
These are achievement markers, not a required sequence. Begin with the doorway that fits, and return to any of them as your work changes.
Pathway progress0 of 4 exploredYour pace. Any doorway can be first.