This page will feature live and recorded interactive workshops and presentations from our authors and others engaged in Pedagogies of Possibility. Find pedagogical comrades, and possibilities for working together, including collaborative research!

This Community of Practice stems from a 2025 Imagining America Collaboratory. We are grateful to Imagining America for the support for and inspiration to launch this community.

If you are interested in sharing an online or in -person event, please contact us!

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We are thrilled to welcome Alix Gerber, Assistant Director of the Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College, as our first PoP Collaboratory Facilitator! Alix is also one of the authors of the PoP Book. Alix's workshop will be on Thursday November 20th at 7pm ET. Description is below. We will share more information about registration and participation soon.

Manifesting Alternative Futures (Alix Gerber, Smith College)
To explore a pedagogy of possibility, this workshop will start with impossibility. Each participant will share a social transformation they want that feels impossible. Then, we will manifest the changes we want into reality by imagining what a successful transformation would look like, and considering where we have the power to enact them in our lives today. Finally, we will sketch ideas about tools, processes, rituals, or inventions that could support us in implementing this change. Along the way, workshop participants will share ideas with each other. Since this workshop involves collaborative activities that build on each other, it's best if participants can attend for the full 1.5 hours. This will be a Zoom workshop using Miro, a virtual workspace. No experience with Miro is needed, we will orient you! Please join from a computer so that you can participate fully, and bring a pen, paper, and ideally a phone with a camera.

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