How to Fall in Love with the Future

Join us for a one-day workshop with Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement, and leave with practical tools to think more creatively, lead with clarity, and shape meaningful change in your work and community.

Reclaiming the Future Through Imagination

What if imagination wasn’t a luxury, but a core leadership skill?

In a time defined by uncertainty and complexity, the ability to imagine better futures—and bring others along with you—is becoming essential.

This immersive workshop is designed to help you do exactly that.

Through a mix of guided exercises, storytelling, and group reflection, you will:

• Learn how to imagine bold, tangible futures for your organisation, projects, or community—and use them to guide real decisions
• Develop practical tools to navigate uncertainty, moving confidently between today’s challenges and long-term possibilities
• Use imagination as a leadership skill to unlock new ideas, energy, and direction in your work
• Craft compelling narratives that inspire others and build momentum around shared visions
• Connect with others who are also working to create positive change, and exchange perspectives and practices

Along the way, Rob will share real-world examples from cities, organisations, and movements already putting these ideas into action—offering inspiration you can translate into your own context.

Rob has delivered this training across Europe with municipalities, companies, and community organisations. This is the first time it’s being offered in Sweden.

About Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of the international Transition Network, and a leading voice in community-led responses to climate change and the power of imagination to shape better futures. He is the author of How to Fall in Love with the Future, The Power of Just Doing Stuff and From What Is to What If, books that have inspired people and communities around the world to rethink what is possible. An Ashoka Fellow, Rob has spoken at TED Global and appeared in the acclaimed French documentary Demain (2015). He holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth.

Join us for a day of reflection, imagination, and connection

The day will take place at Lindeborgs Eco Retreat, an organic farm and retreat centre outside Nyköping that brings people together for reflection, learning, and conversation in close connection with nature.

This gathering is open to anyone who feels called to engage more deeply with the future. You’ll meet a diverse group of around 50-70 people of different ages, genders and backgrounds — from business, science, non-profits and beyond — coming together as a community of thoughtful leaders and change-makers. We warmly invite you to be part of it.

The beginning of Schumacher Seeds of Sweden

This one-day gathering marks the beginning of Schumacher Seeds of Sweden — a new initiative rooted in the spirit of Schumacher College (UK) and inspired by the work of Satish Kumar.

Our wish is to create a place where people can step out of the speed and noise of everyday life and enter into slower rhythms of learning, reflection, and shared experience. Through gatherings lasting a few days at a time, we hope to nurture the kinds of encounters that rarely happen in conventional settings: between people and landscape, between thought and practice, between personal insight and collective responsibility. We bring together perspectives from ecology, farming, education, science, and the arts, while also making room for dialogue, collective reflection, and simple human time together.

While this is a focused one-day event, it carries the Schumacher ethos: thoughtful dialogue, practical exploration, and learning that connects head, hands, and heart. It is the first step in building a Schumacher-rooted space in Sweden — a place for ecological learning, community, wise leadership and grounded action.