Today, we are trapped in the risk paradigm, with the dominant, narrow vision of modernity constructed through paradigm of control. And it doesn’t work. The challenge is to break free, to decolonise and rethink and reimagine. The good news is that there are lots of contemporary experiences to draw from – as discussed across the book. And we can seek out inspiration from other periods and other cultures too. By ‘letting go of the bannister’ in Hannah Arendt’s terms, we can release ourselves from the confines of current thinking and practice and embrace other ways of being and thinking that can help us out of the disciplining constraints of the modernist trap of the dominant risk paradigm.