make it happen stories

What are

MAKE IT HAPPEN STORIES?

In a MAKE IT HAPPEN STORY you make something happen. Ideally, you pick one of the many issues, we as humanity are overdue to face, such as the end of all wars, the restoration of our natural world, rethinking our economic and political systems or one of the other trifles where we are presently stuck with ideas which don’t serve us.

How is it done?

I guess there are several ways.

For me, a MAKE IT HAPPEN STORY starts with an exploration into the roots of a problem. For a story snippet, I usually focus on a single aspect. Once I have identified an aspect, I want to address in my story, I ask How can this be done? And then I let my characters find a way to do it. Usually, these stories and in particular the story snippets only brush the complexity of a subject. But every thinking impulse brings us closer to resolving the many messes we are in.

How to approach a MAKE IT HAPPEN STORY?

• Pick an issue that needs to be addressed.

• Create a story where your characters face that issue, search for solutions, and make their solution work.

In my mind there is nothing utopian about analysing what is, exploring what could serve us better, and using stories both to explore our ideas and to make them accessible.

Stories can help us at every stage of the changes we and our planet so urgently need.

I think, I can draft between forty to a hundred and twenty stories in three days if I use some existing material and prepare some upfront.

Of course, I can’t write them all. But even the story snippets can set thinking processes in motion.

Plus, other writers can pick up the ideas and gift us with their imagination.

You can find examples of MAKE IT HAPPEN STORY SNIPPETS on the first marathon pages on this website:

The end of all wars, story snippets collection >

The end of failing governments, story snippets collection >

How, why and when did I start with these stories?

I started these kinds of stories in two different contexts, both in 2022.

In 2022, I dug deep into rethinking business models and the global economy, and I used story snippets to illustrate different aspects of my models.

You can find snippets on the book stations website, and I highly recommend the dot.story – an accidental story which started as a collection of story snippets and turned into an extraordinary illustration of how a global company can interconnect us while empowering all players and building communities.

Links to the relevant project websites

www.book-stations.net – several global business ideas which use the dot.model and variations of it

www.dot-international.net – the dot.business model – a statement for the dignity of every human

www.dot-international.net/dot.story – the dot.story, Edinburgh, Tunis and the world

www.easy-town.vision – This website still has many gaps, but it also offers more details on business ideas and how to rethink the way we do business globally

The other worlds

The business models were one context where I increasingly used MAKE IT HAPPEN STORIES.

The other context is not of this world (insert big smile).

I was so angry. And I don’t like being angry. But anger can be an inspiration by pointing us to the things that urgently need a rethink.

In the case of Views from around the universe and The end of all wars, it was my extreme anger about the war in Ukraine which catapulted me into the universe, far away from the madness.

Wrapped in the powerful expanse of the universe, a collection of thoughts and stories began to flow.

Does life on other planets exists?


I don’t know.


My sole care is for planet earth. 
We are in such a mess, but we also have these wonderfully squishy brains which we can use to create visionary stories and with them rethink life on our planet.

Both websites have more notes on MAKE IT HAPPEN STORIES and snippet collections of stories which happen on other planets.

Stepping out of a situation or a narrative and imagining what the people of a completely different planet would say or recommend, has two big advantages: the distance allows for greater clarity, and the new planet allows me to find out how these people solved the problem.

The ensuing solution might not be applicable to planet Earth, but there might be something useful in the story nonetheless, or maybe the story simply sets another train of thought in motion.

Links to the relevant project websites

https://views-from-around-the-universe.net/

https://the-end-of-all-wars.net/

THE VISION

This is what I would love to see during a three-days marathon and afterwards:

Thousand and eventually millions of minds bend and focused on one urgent issue, flooding our societies with stories, songs, images and films which all have the aim to address the issue, to dig deep into the root causes, to explore what serves us better, to create visions of how to get away from damaging practices and systems and to use story snippets and visuals to illustrate our ideas. Not to be right. Not to spread an answer. But as part of a planetwide exploration into how we can reshape our world so that we and our planet can heal and subsequently thrive.

A restored planet and healing societies are the basis of yet unknown, planetwide prosperity and longevity.

The more people participate at a marathon the more new connections we can create between us, and whatever we find together will be ours because we created it.

Links

MAKE IT HAPPEN STORIES (MiHS)
MiHS – Up next
MiHS – Get involved
MiHS – Prepare

MiHS – What are MiHS?
MiHS – What is a MiHS marathon?

MiHS – Support the project
MiHS – Who is behind this?

MIHS – Copyrights & AI

MIHS – Recaps

MiHS MARATHONS & COLLECTIONS
The end of all wars, collection, story snippets
The end of failing governments, story snippets

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