The Three Pillars Model
Our approach to imagining and governance is based around these three core pillars: Future unborn generations, Nature and the more-than-human world, and Ancestors and the past. Our work exists to embed these three pillars into decision-making, policy, governance and practice to help bring about a Life-centric society. We work with collective imagination which we take one step further into what we call “moral imagination” — using shifts in perspective to “look through the eyes” of these three pillars and embed the perspectives into our systems.
Future unborn generations
We shift our perspective from the current-day to the future. Looking back on this moment from seven generations in the future.
More-than-human world
Everybody can reclaim their capabilities to speak on behalf of Nature. Our connection with the natural world will help us fight to protect the natural world we love.
Ancestors
By expanding our sense of time and connecting with a sense of the “Deep Time”, we change our perspectives and detach from the urgency of the everyday.
The Moral Imagining Three Pillars Framework is licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial (CC-NC) Licence. This requires that when using the framework, it is attributed (using TASL: Title, Author, Source, and License) and it isn't used for commercial purposes without our direct involvement. The reference is "Moral Imagining Framework by Moral Imaginations, CC-NC", linking to both websites.
If you’d like to understand more about this licence, and why we have chosen it, please get in touch.
The reason we are choosing this licence is to build out a Moral Imagining Commons, which sits internationally and enables people to make iterations and adaptations to the Framework, always referring back to the community to contribute their modifications to the Commons. This approach sits with our values of peer-to-peer and commons building and allows us to build a community of facilitators and licenced practitioners around the work who can support each other, connect each other to opportunities, and adapt the work to new contexts. It's important to us that the method is referenced, so that it connects back to the Commons and allows us to build the methodology and ensure its integrity (with originators and lineage holders like Joanna Macy) as it develops.