Introduction
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Published:2018
David M. Boje, Mabel Sanchez, Rohny Saylors, 2018. "Introduction", The Emerald Handbook of Quantum Storytelling Consulting, David M. Boje, Mabel Sanchez
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Quantum Storytelling Consulting (QSC) is a type of consulting that uses storytelling and quantum physics. QSC aims to help change how humankind relates to the planet itself and offers a sustainable perspective to consulting in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. One way it achieves its goal is by allowing people to pre-care for the world in different levels and dimensions that may have been ignored by current consulting strategies. In quantum physics, observing things changes them by collapsing the waves of possibility into a particular event. For example, an electron is a wave until it is observed, then it becomes a particle-event. This is popularly known as the “quantum observer effect.” We connect this idea to storytelling. In storytelling, what we bet on in the future changes what event arrives from the future. This is a process called antenarrative. Antenarrative means observing the future as it is arriving. It is called prospective sensemaking. By using quantum physics and antenarrative, we explain how to prepare in advance for, and create, and fore-care in advance for new futures. Antenarrative generative process (AGP) is the term for how we do this fore-caring for the future. AGP looks at how quantum waves of what are possible turn into things that happen and which we make sense of.
