Quest Labs · Educators Cohort · Fall 2026

FLIP

Futures Literacies in Praxis (theory in action)

Futures literacy is the art of reading the room, reading the moment, and writing a future you want to wake up to.

This is for you. What you learn about yourself will change what you bring to your classroom, but this process is for you. To meet your future self, as you navigate a world that keeps changing underneath your feet.

20 Per cohort
12 Weeks of practice
7 Futures literacies
Possible futures

Built from 545 contributions by 170 educators across two healing-centered gatherings. Debuted at the 2025 International Healing-Centered Education Conference.

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Fall 2026 Cohort
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The script we're all
still reading from

The world we're being asked to prepare students for keeps morphing faster than our nervous systems, and the systems built to support us, were ever designed to handle.

Something is different here. This is what we reach for.

The water we're swimming in

  • Volun-told to attend another training
  • Check the box, move on
  • One and done, see you next year
  • It's always been done like this
  • More to carry, less time to breathe

What we're reaching toward

  • You chose to be here
  • Praxis (theory in action) as the primary mode
  • A practice that deepens over time
  • Futures as something you build a relationship with
  • More capacity, more community, more possible
"You are not broken. Neither is the system. It is working exactly as it was designed. You, however, are paying attention. That's why you're here."

The whole adult
ecosystem

Classroom teachers. Instructional coaches. Curriculum designers. Principals. Assistant principals. Department heads. District leads. Learning experience designers.

Each cohort is capped at 20 to keep it real. Intimate. Honest. Diverse.

The Winded Visionary
You believe in futures thinking. You believe in your students. You're running on fumes from trying to do transformative work inside a system that wasn't built for it. This is a place to put down the performance and pick up a practice.
The Curious Skeptic
You've seen "transformative PD" before. Your caution is earned. Come see what happens when the room is actually built differently. If it doesn't land for you, your feedback is the gift.
The Already-Doing-It
You're already running futures-oriented practice in your classroom or school. You need community, language, and a place to go deeper. There are more of us than you think.
The Systems Thinker
Curriculum director. Instructional coach. School leader navigating more than anyone should have to right now. You sit at the intersection of what is and what could be. This practice is built for people who think in ecosystems.

Wherever you are,
there's a way in.

Three ways to walk with us. Choose the one that fits your season.

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Micro

Follow along online with the prompt. Free, async, no signup. Come back when the season is right.

Follow along →

free · Instagram + LinkedIn

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Focus

Come where you can fit in. Move along with the analog tools. Join us when your calendar lets you. The Flexible Path, at your pace.

See the Flexible Path →

sliding scale · come as you can

🏫   Bringing this to your whole school or team? Let's talk →

Two paths.
One sliding scale.

For the Fall Cohort. Focus (Flexible Path) and Full (Full Arc) are both on a sliding scale. Choose the level of commitment that's true for you, then the price point that's honest. The person at the top of the scale funds the person at the bottom. That's the model.

Micro is free. Follow along on Instagram or LinkedIn.

Focus · Traveler
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The Flexible Path

Make the sessions you can make. Flipped classroom model: pre-recorded session content, a dyad partner you meet with independently, integration sessions mid-week, occasional live attendance when you can show up. You're in the practice, at your pace.

Right for you if: Your schedule is full and your heart is in it. You need the container without the rigidity.

$247
Need support
$397
Standard investment
$497
Pay it forward
PD budget eligible · Sponsored seats available
Full · World Weaver
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The Full Arc

You're here. Every session, morning pages, artist's date, your dyad partner every week, the Wednesday three-word drop. Two touchpoints throughout the week: live session plus integration. The full 12-week arc, beginning to declaration.

Right for you if: You came to transform. In practice and in the room.

  • A futures-literate teaching practice you can name and defend
  • A professional portfolio with before-and-after evidence
  • A cohort of colleagues who know what you're building
  • A rubric your admin can read
$497
Need support
$797
Standard investment
$997
Pay it forward, funds a sponsored seat
PD budget eligible · School team rates available · Sponsored seats available
Curious but not convinced? Follow the journey on Instagram or LinkedIn. Session reflections, provocation drops, and the declaration that builds one word at a time across all 12 weeks. Free, no registration. Come back when the season is right.

What actually
happens

Futures Literacies in Praxis runs on a 12-week arc, adapted specifically for educators and educational leaders. Each session is a living laboratory. A place where the moment you are trying to meet becomes the curriculum. Capped at 20 people so the room stays real. From Week 1, you are paired with a dyad partner: a companion who walks the whole 12-week journey with you.

Go fast, go alone. Go further, go together.

Another set of companions: five archetypes from the Black Menagerie (five characters used as lenses to navigate the future) serve as your navigational lens throughout. You'll meet them in the room. Meet the Black Menagerie →

Built on the Futures Alphabet framework that emerged from 545 contributions by 170 educators. A living methodology. Explore the foundations ↗

The game nights,
with the bingo.

Pop in for one session. Glowup advisory story creation for your future memory. Come play, come think, come name what you're seeing. Pattern-recognition as practice.

Format
Via Zoom. Come to one, come to all.
Cost
Donation based. Pay what you can, pay what feels right, pay nothing if now is not the time.

Cadence, timing, and the game itself are still being finalized. See what's next and RSVP on Luma.

See the next Game Night on Luma →

The living
archive.

Sessions we've held. Contributions from educators, researchers, and community members across two years of practice.

2026

  • Summer Sandbox 2026 · May – Sept 2026 · Summer series
  • Wounded Healer to World Weaver · May 24, 2026 · Healing Futures
  • Cosmos, Shorts & Playgrounds · May 18, 2026 · JFS Futures Community
  • Sarkar Sandbox 4.0 · May 17, 2026 · Sandbox
  • Sarkar Sandbox: AI in Education · May 1, 2026 · L4E + Quest Labs
  • FLIP Cohort Launch · April 22, 2026 · Quest Labs
  • Imagination Infrastructure · March 19, 2026 · JFS Futures Community
  • Women's International Day Sandbox · March 8, 2026 · Special Session
  • A New Game of Life · February 25, 2026 · Sandbox
  • Learning Lab · February 12, 2026 · Sandbox
  • Underground Futures · January 29, 2026 · Futures Lab
  • Futures in Praxis · January 8, 2026 · Sandbox

2025

  • Making It Real · December 18, 2025 · Sandbox
  • Permission to Play · December 4, 2025 · Sandbox
  • Your Body Knows the Future · November 13, 2025 · Sandbox
  • Systems Thinking Unlocked · November 6, 2025 · Sandbox
  • Elders Circle · October 29, 2025 · Sandbox
  • Portal of Possibilities · July 2025 · Healing Centered Futures Summit

Reflections and living-library entries from these sessions are held in the CILL research archive.