A better future isn’t something we need to wait for. It can be a living source of wisdom that we tap into today. One that asks us to pause. To go deeper. To live differently.
We believe that our dream future speaks to each of us, all the time.
Our world is alive with clues from our future. And these hints aren’t as weird or wild as we might expect. They’re often hidden in plain sight, tucked into the crevices of our everyday lives.
A clue can be any unexpected idea that catches our attention: A new show we take a chance on and become obsessed with, or a once unfamiliar newsletter we now welcome into our inbox. Clues are also hidden in the parts of our lives that sparkle. They’re the moods, symbols, and aesthetics we’re drawn to—from a fashion trend we repeatedly save on Pinterest, to an untried ingredient we test our hand with.
No matter the source of insight, when we feel that strange urge in our bodies to try something different or new, it's proof that our dream future is here, whispering to us, drawing us closer.
Can’t hear yours yet? That’s where we come in.
We’re exploring the underexplored future.
Advance Notice is a Dreaming Collective and Vision Studio devoted to guiding our community toward the future world we hope to fully inhabit. We study and interpret traces of this better future, and help individual seekers and organizations do the same. Our focus is on elevating what we notice in our lives. It’s in the interpretation of these clues from the future that we begin to truly understand what they mean. And, in turn, we can start to live better at home, at work, and in all the magical spaces in between.
PATH 01 - FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTREPRENEURS
Vision Studio
We’re here to help you learn how to be in relationship with your organization and its vision for the future. We believe that it’s only from this place that you can truly begin to love your work and create things that matter, (i.e., products, services, experiences, perspectives, strategies) not just to you and your team but also to our shared future.
Our Vision Studio is our consulting practice. We’re a group of futurists, strategists, anthropologists, artists, and healing professionals. We help you discover a meaningful direction for your organization, from solo entrepreneurs and not-yet-launched startups to Fortune 100s and established brands, and find ways to put it into practice every day. Our clients transition from our engagements better able to cultivate their organization’s deepest hopes, dreams, and desires through the work that they do. They also leave more in love with their work.
Interested in exploring? You can read more about each of our offerings below. All of our engagements are fully customized, adaptable to a range of budgets, and are able to be mixed and matched. If you decide to work with us, we’ll design the specifics of your journey alongside you and your team.
VISION STUDIO
Offerings
Community Love
We’d love to meet you!
Schedule a 45-minute complimentary conversation to get a sense of what a collaboration with us could look like.
PATH 02 - FOR INDIVIDUAL SEEKERS
Dreaming Collective
We explore questions, topics, and clues about the future in spaces that are important to us—ones that we think will resonate with you too.
While our Vision Studio works one-on-one with entrepreneurs, new businesses, and established organizations, our Dreaming Collective is here to serve our broader community. It’s where our team takes on self-sponsored creative projects in areas that are meaningful to us. Our hope is to offer inspired perspectives about our collective future that illuminate new, delicious ways of being alive. Available now: Collective Wellbeing—a report for organizations on the future of wellness. Coming soon: Guides for Living—everyday practical guidance on embodying collective wellbeing.
OUR CURRENT AREAS OF EXPLORATION
The Future of Death, Grief, and Discomfort
An Aesthetic Mood Journal
WHO WE ARE
Meet the Collective
We’re a group of practitioners who help one another understand the world from complementary disciplines and vantage points.
OUR APPROACH
Spiritual Foresight
Advance Notice is an experiment in consciously living our collective vision of the future, today. We call this way of practicing Spiritual Foresight. For us, the word “spiritual” represents a hunger to be in a deeper connection with our world, and to use our visions of the future as a conduit for building that relationship.
As we’ve opened to the practice of spiritual foresight, the future has delighted us in return, sending us down beautiful meandering paths and offering unexpected clues. We share some of the most meaningful ones below with the hope that you’ll be inspired to begin your own conversation with the future.
Happy noticing.
Our Moodscape
We invite you to explore the clues that guided us in creating Advance Notice.
Spiritual Foresight
Reconnecting to the Oracle of Delphi
Our Vision
Imagining a cozier future
Everyday Enchantment
Floriography 101 and on noticing
Aesthetic Analysis
Awakening to signals from the visible realm
Our Logo
Melty flowers and block printing
Strange Magic
Hilma af Klint’s symbology into the unconscious
Our Mission
Meditations on a flower bulb