Center of Action Research for Regenerative Futures

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TEAM

We are a small, multidisciplinary team supported by a larger network of AI professionals, social scientists, entrepreneurs, futurists, coaches, facilitators, and artists.

Anna Betz

Coach and Co-Director

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George Pór

Founder
Director of Research

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Mark Allan Kaplan

Transdisciplinary Artist

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Urooj Fatima

Project Assistant

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ADVISORS

Hilary Bradbury

Action Research for Transformation 

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John Hagel

Senior Management Consultant

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Michael Garfield

Futurist
Podcast Host

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Monica Anderson

Experimental AI Epistemologist

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Pamela von Sabljar

Wisdom Leader 

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Pavel Luksha

100-year Futures

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Ross Dawson

Amplifying Cognition

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Stefan Ekwall

Visionary Entrepreneur

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PARTNERS

River is a transformative organization designed to accelerate the transition to a generative society on a thriving planet. We are creating wisdom-guided AI systems that benefit all of humanity.

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Enlivening Edge is a media hub and international community drawn together to nourish and  the evolution of organizations and social systems.

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Exploring wisdom and technology with Michalr Garfield… Now that you can do anything with technology, what WILL you do? Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield in a bold and playful exploration of agency …

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OUR ORGANIZATION

Future HOW is a collaborative research facility and network of people passionate about action research for regenerating social systems, using our homegrown Generative Action Research methodology framework.

We are a social enterprise, incorporated as a Community Interest Company in the United Kingdom.

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Spirals of desire for a better life expand outwards and upwards. People around the world dream and work for a better future (and fear a worse)…

Slowly, they become visible to each other and their collective inspiration spreads outward. 

The spirals touch, becoming new social movements and ecosystems. 

Each path energizes the other, rolling together toward humankind’s Phase Shift into a wiser and flourishing society that works for all …

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Anna Betz

Anna Betz is a coach and Co-Director of Future HOW. Formerly, she was a lead practitioner in NHS Mental Health Services in the UK, a consultant to the Co-Creation Network of the National Health Services’ Leadership Academy, and an editor of the Enlivening Edge.

She is trained in the Map of Meaning process and has successfully used it with various organizations around the world, as well as with her individual coaching clients.

Anna is passionate about galvanizing the potential in people and collective systems. For example, she has successfully initiated and facilitated several co-creative projects with doctors and other health professionals in primary and secondary care.

Systems thinking is one of her strengths. It also led her to discover and become a senior practitioner in medical herbalism and endobiogeny.

Read her article about the Map of Meaning approach.

George Pór

George Pór is a metamodern social philosopher and sociologist researching the conditions for human & societal flourishing supported by wisdom-fostering Collaborative Hybrid Intelligence (CHI) of human and AI agents. He is the founder of and Director of Research at the Future HOW Center of Research Action Research for Regenerative Futures.

George is a pioneer in the multi-disciplinary field of collective intelligence (CI) studies and practices. His current research explores the philosophy and psychology of human-AI interactions. His earlier academic work included posts at the University of Paris, University of Lund, UC Berkeley, California Institute of Integral Studies, INSEAD, and London School of Economics.

Before devoting his full attention to research and development related to AI-for-CI and CI-for-AI, George was the founder and Senior Consultant of Community Intelligence Ltd, a UK-based global consultancy. His clients included the European Commission, European Investment Bank, Ford Motor Co, INSEAD, Intel, National Health Service (UK), United Nations, and World Business Academy.

George’s personal life and work are infused by the gifts of many cultures he has been exposed to in the countries he lived. George’s work integrates lessons learned from ancient wisdom traditions (Buddhist and Native American) with European values and an American entrepreneurial “can do” spirit.

Mark Allan Kaplan

Mark Allan Kaplan, Ph.D., is a transdisciplinary Artist, AI art researcher and cresator, filmmaker, educator, and media psychologist focusing on Integral, transpersonal, and transformative approaches to art, media, and spirituality.

His creative works have been shown on television, in theaters, schools, and colleges, and at expositions around the world. Mark has also conducted and published seminal research on the integral and transpersonal dimensions of the cinema and the experience of divine guidance across religious traditions and cultures. Mark is currently exploring various applications of Integral Theory, including the research and development of an Integral approach to cinematic media theory and practice.

He describes himself as a “Lived Inquiry Explorer, MetaShaman and MetaCrisis Surfer Beta-testing the Future”. 

Mark has received the Integral Institute’s Integral Life Award in recognition of this work and has been named one of the TransTech200 key innovators who are driving the advancement of media and technologies for personal growth and transformation. You can find him on Substack.

Urooj Fatima

Urooj Fatima works as a Project Assistant at Future HOW. She is passionate about the endless possibilities of AI and how it can transform creative fields. Her interest lies in blending technology with artistry, whether it’s crafting compelling narratives or designing captivating visuals. 

With a strong foundation in research, she enjoys diving deep into new topics and using data-driven insights to fuel innovation.

Urooj is helping us with AI art generation, research assistance, scriptwriting, and project coordination.

Hilary Bradbury

Hilary Bradbury, Ph.D., is the founder & curator at AR+ | Action Research Plus Foundation. Her expertise brings a transformative action research (“learn by doing”) approach to social change methodology. She plays a global community organizing role among action researchers, reflected in her position as Editor-in-Chief of the premier, international peer-reviewed Action Research Journal. As curator at AR+ Foundation, she supports global educator-change leaders and universities. She emphasizes integrating developmental reflexivity and social learning as Action Research for Transformations. 

Hilary is listed as one of a small group of inspiring global scholars considering the importance of action research for a time of increasing eco-social crisis.   Hilary was named Distinguished Professor at De La Salle University in The Philippines, and  at Chalmers University in Sweden.  

She has the (im)modest intention of living a life of beauty and friendship while muddling toward a more life-enhancing civilization with interesting people.  Practically this means supporting co-leadership among change agents in the work of transformations as we practice together as a community of change. 

John Hagel

John Hagel is a business philosopher, senior management consultant, author of 6 books, including the acclaimed The Journey Beyond Fear, and the founder of several organizations, including the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley-based research center, and the Beyond Our Edge, LLC. He is also a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems at the World Economic Forum. 

Hagel has been published in business publications, including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC, and BBC.  

One of his distinctive contributions to the AI scene centers on this insight: “The AI apps that will ultimately add the most value are those that focus on gathering access to richer, real-time data about the specific contexts that are most important to the users.”

Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield is a futurist and has been the host of the legendary Future Fossils podcast series, where he conversed with an avalanche of amazing guests for deep but irreverent discussions at the edge of the known and knowable: on prehistory and post-humanity and deep time, non-human agency and non-duality.  

Garfield is an interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers. This practice feeds his synthetic and transdisciplinary “mind-jazz” performances in the form of essays, music, and fine art. The standard-bearer for a new generation of boundary-defying scholars, he refuses to be enslaved by a single perspective, creative medium, or intellectual community, walking through the walls between academia and festival culture, theory and practice — speaking and performing. 

Before producing Future Fossils, he was a Digital Media Strategist at Santa Fe Institute. Currently, he is the instigator, lead researcher, and curator of the Humans On The Loop project, a multimodal public inquiry on wisdom and technology, power and responsibility, the future of human-technology co-evolution, and holistic practices for cultivating saner futures.

Monica Anderson

Monica Anderson is an Experimental AI Epistemologist, ex-Googler, and veteran of the AI movement, having explored Deep Neural Networks since 2001.  

She is the CTO of Syntience Inc., an AI Research company in Silicon Valley founded by her in 2004 to create a system capable of learning and understanding any human language by unsupervised learning from a pure text corpus in the target language. Her current R&D project is focused on humans and AI agents collaborating in virtual ephemeral chat rooms on any topic. 

Anderson brings to Future HOW her spirit of a trailblazer and innovative AI approaches, including Artificial Intuition and Deep Neural Networks. 

Pamela von Sabljar

Pamela von Sabljar is wisdom leader & facilitator for new paradigm leaders. In her client group you find thought leaders, athletes, CEOs, entrepreneurs and community leaders. She has 25 years experience in leadership, systemic development & behavioural science. She has founded several EU – projects & leadership programs. 

Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed speaker, facilitator and author working at the evolutionary edge. She espouses dialoging, sensing, creating and leading from this ever-emergent edge — which she calls Living  Eros.  

She has been co-hosting the largest global Emergent Dialogue training in the world. She leads Facilitate the Shift masterclasses; hosts training on cutting edge sense-making platforms like Rebel Wisdom, Emerge Network, Foundation of Ekskäret. She is also an Co-Initiator of the Nordic Women’s gathering.

She works extensively with younger generations, developing self-leadership and empowering global change makers. Pamela is driven by a strong passion to create sustainable global change through developing self-leadership and authentic, holistic leadership among individuals and organizations.  

Pavel Luksha

Pavel Luksha is a global thinker and facilitator specializing in long-term thinking and systemic societal transformation. He is the founder and director of Global Education Futures, the co-founder of University for the Earth, the Associate Researcher of Learning Planet Institute, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science, and an Evolutionary Leaders Circle member. Pavel serves on the Board of Laszlo Institute for New Paradigm Research and the World University Consortium.

Pavel co-authored the Rapid Foresight methodology, and taught Collective Intelligence in several institutions, including ITBA and Weaving Academy. He has been a visiting professor at institutions including SKOLKOVO School of Management, the University of Amsterdam, and ESCP. Currently residing in Belgrade, Serbia, he continues to engage in transformative initiatives worldwide.

AI has been a focal interest of Pavel for many years, especially its long-term impact on human systems, including job markets and education. His “”Atlas of Emerging Jobs” and “Future Skills” reports explored career opportunities during and after the transition to an AI-enriched world, while his “The Next 100 Years: A Bridgeway Across The Decisive Century” book presented a holistic vision of transition to thrivable futures. Pavel also explored the impact of AI on the future of science in “AI as the Catalyst of the New Paradigm of Science?” (forthcoming, Cadmus 2025), and currently runs a project on AI role in humanity’s transition to “safe operating space” within the planetary boundaries.

Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson is a leading futurist and best-selling author of several books, including the Living Networks (2002) that anticipated the rise of social media.  

He is the founding chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies Group of companies and the founder and host of the “Humans + AI” explorers’ community, which is dedicated to amplifying human thinking, creativity, and decision-making with AI. 

A sought-after keynote speaker and board advisor of major organizations globally, he has delivered keynotes and strategy sessions in over 30 countries across six continents and lectured at top academic institutions worldwide. 

Dawson also hosts the Amplifying Cognition podcast series, where he interviewed George Pór about wisdom-focused collaborative hybrid intelligence, AI whisperers, and AI shamans.  

Stefan Ekwall

Stefan Ekwall is a visionary entrepreneur, co-founder of River, a Stockholm-based start-up, and partner of Future HOW, specializing in creating wisdom-guided AI tools and building bespoke AI systems for leaders and decision-makers. 

 He is an intrepid explorer of the frontiers of human potential – from deep inner work and group wisdom to mapping future possibilities and understanding how AI can augment what it means to be human. 

As an Advisor to Future HOW, he brings us his perspective on augmenting AI with the wisdom of the collective and a potential future state where technology and wisdom work together for the benefit of all and help live in a more authentic, conscious, and antifragile society consisting of compassionate and purposeful agents connected with inner and outer nature.