When we invite people and teams to dream out as far as they can into the future some flourish in the invitation and some express disinterest. The disinterest can be because of a lack of familiarity with the process. It can be because they resist consideration of the future because they do not know how to manage complexity and uncertainty intrinsic in it.
The opportunity is to help them learn how, new questions, they can turn the discomfort of complexity and uncertainty into inspiration for the present. Until we help them learn this they will work without the advantage of inspiration from the future they would like to see possible. Until we help them learn this they will work with a sense of things happening to them in their work rather than them making things happen. This is the transition from helplessness to agency.