Listening for Tomorrow: Collectively experiencing the future of care
Across healthcare — from policy to frontline care, from research to industry — there is growing recognition that incremental change is no longer enough.
The horizon looks murky, our resolve struggling to meet the complexity of the moment. Perhaps the challenge runs deeper than a surface symptom. Perhaps we’ve been listening with outdated stethoscopes, trying to diagnose tomorrow’s health with yesterday’s tools.
Listening for Tomorrow is a different kind of gathering.
It invites participants to sense and respond to emerging futures. It is a call to recalibrate how we perceive the world, to notice subtle signals that can guide us toward a healthier, more vibrant future. If “business as usual” is no longer serving us, what new horizon might lead to the kind of healthcare experience we truly aspire to?
May 2027
A 2 day gathering in Montreal, QC preceded by a 6 month collective inquiry
This experience brings together a curated group of facilitators and practitioners working at the forefront of future-building. Over six months, participants will engage in a highly interactive, participatory process that culminates in a two-day, in-person gathering.
Throughout the journey, participants will deepen their understanding of health and care through shared sensemaking. They will explore the edges of their own perspectives while building meaningful connections with others in the cohort. By the time we gather in person in Spring 2027, participants will have developed the capacity to engage with and respond to new possibilities, grounded in the work we’ve done together.
The flow of the 2 day gathering
(Provisional agenda)
Day 1 / Theme: Sensing into different futures
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Surfacing the problem: How complex worlds invite change
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Meeting the problem: What new capacities will we need for an uncertain future?
Day 2 / Theme: Practicing into different futures
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Re-Patterning: How do new worlds become possible?
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Emergence: Practicing new worlds into being
Featured hosts
This list will be updated as additional hosts are confirmed.
Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, educator, international lecturer, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden and US. She is the creator of the Warm Data theory and practices. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”
Iain Kerr and Jason Frasca are Co-Founders of Emergent Futures Lab. They host a community of practice where innovation facilitators, educators, leaders, and creative practitioners can collaboratively discover and invent new powerful alternatives to the limitations of ideation-based creativity. They are learning to work creatively with emergence, complexity, and collaboration as the foundation of breakthrough change.
Andy Wilkins is the founder of FUTURE OF HEALTH – a new think tank exploring the long term vision for health and care. He has undertaken numerous healthcare innovation projects and authored high profile reports for the NHS and policy makers. Andy is also Programme Director for Imperial College’s Executive Education course on Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare and a visiting lecturer to UCL.
Ways to become involved
Sponsoring the Event
We invite sponsors to stand not only as supporters of the event, but as active contributors within it - engaged in the same inquiry, exploration, and future-making as every participant.
Participate in the event
We’re excited to welcome up to 100 people to this gathering. If you’d like to attend, please add your name to the waitlist by filling out the form below to let us know you’re interested.