Activating the Future: It’s an inside job
Abstract
Decision-making is how we navigate uncertainty and exercise agency over our lives — it’s the mechanism we use to select the next moment that appears to be best for us. Traditional frameworks tend to anchor decisions in external events, but after nearly 25 years in legal practice, I’ve discovered that this outside-in approach doesn’t sustainably create preferred futures. The future is now and it’s an inside job - let's activate it!
Keywords
uncertainty, futures, decision making
Author Biography
Virginia Robin
Virginia Robin is a reformed lawyer and mediator who now calls herself a legal futurist, advocating for more conscious, sustainable and compassionate approaches to conflict and governance. Drawing on both professional and lived experience with entrenched conflict, she guides others toward better-feeling futures. Living in paradise on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, she is also an author, TEDx speaker, and artist inspired by nature and travel.