About Us
Background on Thrivability and Future Salons
Mark has been hosting the Future Salon in the Bay Area since 2002. The Future Salon has provided our audience with riveting speakers on topics that lead toward a world that works for all, including David Brin, Nicole Lazarro, Mickey McManus, Howard Rheingold, Doug Engelbart, and more. Ten years later, Mark met Jean Russell, a founder of Thrivability. Jean co-created the Thrivability Sketch with 70 amazing collaborators in 2010. And then in 2013, she released, through Triarchy Press, Thrivability: Breaking Through to a World that Works. The tagline for the Future Salon has been: Boldy Creating a World that Works for All. And so, with a tremendous shared sense of purpose and practice, not only did they marry, they are weaving the Future Salon and Thrivability together into Thrivable Futures.
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Future present
Co-creating tomorrow today
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Thriving
Highlighting ways to flourish
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Together we are smarter
Sourcing collective wisdom
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Fostering participation
Put your passion into play
Thrivable Futures is Jean + Mark + You
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What's New? -- Blog Posts
POW! Impact Movie Night: Join us for a 13th Documentary Netflix Party this Sunday 26th 6pm
I would like to invite the Future Salon community to an experimental POW! Network* event this Sunday 26th of July at 6 pm. Here is the framework: Come together to watch an impactful movie. Discuss the lessons learned from it right after. Collectively come up with at least one concrete action that we all can do to impact[…]
Holo/Holochain Introduction with Jean Russell, Holo ICO Lead
Join us next Tuesday, April 17th 6pm for an Introduction to Holo/Holochain the first time in the heart of Silicon Valley at Mozilla in Mountain View. Holo/Holochain is the next level blockchain platform that enables truly distributed internet, rooted in agent centricity, which allows you to be in charge of your own data. More details[…]
Sister High School Barn Raising
Most everybody loves the new World’s Apart Heineken commercial that is showing us in an experiment how to bridge the political divide. If you haven’t seen it, check it out here, I’ll wait 😉 The experiment proves, that the willingness to sit down and listen to get to know the other person and their viewpoint[…]
Sister City Barn Raising
Picture from Wikipedia Since the election there is a lot of soul searching going on about what went wrong and what can be done to get back on track. The two camps are drifting further and further apart. Red states and blue states seem less and less to get along. But we have so much[…]
Tomorrow: Ceptr @ Thrivable Future Salon
Can’t wait to see you all tomorrow Wednesday 20th of January 6pm for our: Ceptr @ Thrivable Future Salon at the IFTF in Palo Alto. Register now if you haven’t yet. Ceptr is a toolset for building semantic, mashable, fully decentralized applications. As Bitcoin goes through a rough patch, Arthur Brock suggests a fractal method focusing on[…]
Brass Off @ The Thrivable Future Salon
Brass off? Not what you think. You see, everyone coming to the Thrivable Future Salon [TFS] works hard on making this world a better place. Sometimes it can be a bit dry and technical, the positive future may seem far away, and it looks uncertain whether we will ever get there. But one thing is for[…]
Ceptr @ Thrivable Future Salon
Ceptr a building block for a semantic, mashable, fully decentralized Internet. Please register for the Ceptr Thrivable Future Salon on Wednesday 20th of January at IFTF in Palo Alto. As Buckminster Fuller said: You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Are[…]
Let’s continue the Learning Revolution started by Jay Cross
Just got the sad news that Thrivable Future Salon speaker Jay Cross suddenly died. We don’t know the details yet, but wanted to share his great spirit from last month at the Thrivable Future Salon where he unveiled his new book: Real Learning: The missing manual for the do-it-yourself learner. We are very glad[…]
Inspiring Thrivable Future Salon
Thanks for coming last week. We loved it. Let’s make it even better. Give us feedback by filling out this short survey. Thanks! What are the 3 most powerful words ever spoken right after “I love you”? In my world it is “You inspired me!” After our Thrivable Future Salon last Thursday, Augustin Bralley wrote us: Wonderful[…]
5+5[+5] Sessions Oct 14 Thrivable Future Salon
We love the diversity of sessions that participants are going to present, tomorrow, Wednesday 14th of October at the Thrivable Future Salon [register now]. After an introduction to Thrivability and the Future Salon we are having 5+5[+5] open mike sessions: 5 minute of introduction to a theme. 5 minutes of discussion in the room, and if[…]