Futures Sensemaking Collective
We stand at the threshold.
Most organizations can name what they're afraid of. Naming what they want is harder. That's where we work.
Sibilla takes its name from the Cumaean Sibyl. An ancient Italian figure who stood at the edge between the present and the possible, reading what others couldn't yet see. An interpreter. A mediator. A voice at the margin of things. We do the same. With method.
We help organizations slow down long enough to ask better questions. The futures that interest us are the ones worth building toward, not just surviving. That means taking seriously the people who aren't in the room yet. The systems that hold them. We work carefully, with real voices, before anything gets built. The space stays open. What fills it belongs to others.
What you can picture, you can work toward. What you can't, you reproduce by default.
How we work
You need to know where you're standing before you can look anywhere else. This is a working session to map the present: what the organization carries, what it can't see from where it sits, what assumptions are running the show without anyone having decided that. We surface tensions and find the questions that actually matter. Not a strategy. The ground a strategy can stand on.
The future doesn't announce itself. It shows up first in the margins, in practices and voices and places that haven't been named yet. We go into the field. We listen before we interpret. Through qualitative research and semiotic analysis, we build a picture of what's already moving before anyone has decided what to call it.
Futures are made, not found. We bring people into a shared space across disciplines, roles, and generations, and work with what the Reading surfaced or with what the organization already carries. Through facilitated sessions, we build plural scenarios together. Not predictions. Plausible worlds that give a team a shared vocabulary and something real to move toward.
Leaving a threshold changes you. The Return translates what the work produced into something the organization can keep using: principles, questions, practices. Things that belong to the team, not to us. The work continues. Without us, by design.
In progress
What if an organization could sit down and talk with the people who will inhabit its future? We are building a foresight practice that constructs queryable figures from real field research. Voices projected forward into plausible scenarios. The work is in progress, with Orbyta.
Got something you want to think through? We're open to starting new things.
Start somethingDomenico has spent twenty years in the gap between how organizations describe themselves and how they actually work. He's good at finding where the two diverge. He's been inside enough large systems, technology transitions, and organizational crises to know where the weight usually falls, and who usually carries it. He comes in when the map has stopped matching the territory, and pretending it does has stopped being an option.
Elena works at the point where a group knows more than it can say. She creates the conditions for that knowledge to surface and become usable. Years of facilitation, futures work, and organizational change have given her a specific skill: she can walk into a room of people who are stuck and help them find what they already know. She starts from the people in the room. Always.
If you recognize something here, let's talk.