Quest Labs · Afroasian Futurist Methodology · Est. 2022

The Future Is Not
Predicted. It Is Played.

A living laboratory for futures literacy, healing-centered design, and the art of navigating what hasn't happened yet.

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Donations Based · Monthly · Open Door

Sandbox Sessions

Monthly, Open Door gatherings on Luma. Donations based.

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Coming · Black Friday 2026

The Black Menagerie

A futures literacy card game rooted in Afroasian methodology - part game, part oracle, part mirror. Five creatures. Seventy-eight cards. Two editions: Think Cards for Humanity and an educator activity deck.

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FLIP Cohorts

FFutures
LLiteracies
IInvitational
PPlayground

Twelve weeks of embodied, participatory, healing-centered personal and collective futures development.

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6Founding Questors
7Literacies
Possible Futures
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Now Taking Sign-Ups · Back to School 2026

Educators Cohort

20Educators Max
ABCDEFGFutures Literacies Framework
Fall 2026Launch

A community of praxis for educators trying to fit hope and future transformation into systems built for the past. Classroom teachers, instructional coaches, curriculum designers, and school leaders - join us to practice futures literacy as a living discipline in a playful way.

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The Framework · ABCDEFG

Seven Literacies for a World in Transition

Most futures literacy frameworks center cognitive sense-making. The ABCDEFG Framework works across a fuller set of dimensions. Embodied futures asks something different of people. That pause is the point.

AAffectiveEmotional intelligence · feeling states · mood · emotional processing
BBehavioralActions · practices · habits · rituals · repeated behaviors
CCognitiveThinking · analysis · knowledge · understanding · mental processing
DDialecticalTensions · contradictions · both/and thinking · holding complexity
EExperientialDirect engagement · learning through experience · participatory practice
FFun / CreativePlay · imagination · joy · creativity · experimentation
GGenerativeCreating · midwiving new possibilities · hospicing toward transformation
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Cohort 02 · Now Forming

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FLIP — the Futures Literacies Invitational Playground — is a 12-week embodied journey toward your 2032 self. The founding cohort is full and already in motion. Cohort 02 is now forming.

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