# 5 Taking our imaginings with us

You have engaged in a series of activities, all designed to stimulate spaces for imagining and dreaming. As you imagine and dream, you become aware of different types of story about your inquiry, whether through different types of language, metaphor, image or practices. You begin to take a view on what feels really important to you, what is exciting and interesting, and what has potential. In order to take these ideas and feelings into the innovation session of this course, you will now, either individually or as a team, complete an activity to capture key aspects to take with you into Session 4.

## Activity 8 New emerging stories

Allow a minimum of 20 minutes

For this task, you will imagine yourself in the future. Write a story using the following scenario. If you are writing together, you may want to do this as a discussion with one person writing.

In five years’ time, you are sat in the audience of a large education conference in which awards are being given out for innovative and impactful practices. Your name(s) are called – you have won for the work you have done on your inquiry project.

As part of the acceptance speech, you are asked to tell the story of your inquiry. What have you done, who has been involved, why has it been as successful as it has?

### Discussion

At this point in the course, you may find that you haven’t written about detailed specifics of the actions you have taken and the results you hope to have achieved, which we will discuss later in the course. Instead you may have written more about the principles and values behind what you hope to achieve and some of the innovative or interesting practice or ways of thinking about your inquiry topic that will form the basis of your work.

This imaginative activity has hopefully captured the key ideas and opportunities you have now begun to identify. These will be important in the next session.

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