EconomicsBecoming planetary
Advisory
A dream big enough gives teams the energy to act where plans alone run out of steam. This conference explores how great dreams are born, built and eventually transform reality.
Conference contentEverything around us began as one person's dream. Every object, every building, every institution, every law. Martin Luther King did not say "I have a plan." He said "I have a dream." In less than two years, that dream became the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Jean-Pierre Goux has spent 30 years studying what separates dreams that transform reality from those that stay fiction.
He distilled those lessons into 10 principles, drawn from history's greatest dreamers: having a precise objective at the service of something larger than oneself, visualizing success clearly, staying humble, thinking strategically, building backwards from the desired outcome, remaining open to the unexpected, finding allies, asking for help, starting before being fully ready, and seizing the Kairos, the right moment when everything becomes possible.
Homo Biospheris is the grand dream he believes humanity is ready for: a planetary collective of 8.25 billion humans becoming, together, an organ of the Biosphere. The OneHome 100-country challenge was conceived as a living demonstration of these 10 principles: projecting images of Earth from space in 100 countries as proof that a dream anchored in wonder and built with method can move at planetary scale.
This conference closes with an invitation: what is the dream your organization is ready to pursue?
- The 10 principles of great dreaming, drawn from history's most transformative figures, from Martin Luther King to the pioneers of the ecological transition
- A method to build backwards from the desired outcome, find allies, and seize the right moment to act
- Homo Biospheris as the grand collective dream: humanity as an organ of the Biosphere in the making
- The OneHome 100-country challenge as a live proof of concept: how a dream built on these 10 principles can operate at planetary scale
- A concrete invitation: what is your organization's dream at the service of the Earth, and how to make it real
30 to 60 minutes, depending on your needs and context.
AudienceAll-company events, leadership offsites, organizations navigating a turning point or that have lost the spark.
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