Wabi Sabi Futures

Nothing lasts | Nothing is finished | Nothing is perfect

Wabi Sabi Futures facilitates exploration at the edge of where futures, foresight, change leadership, and arts practice intersect.

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Futures & Foresight

Become more resilient by taking a longer-term view in how you act today.

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Change leadership

Develop your capability to lead adaptive change in uncertain times.

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Creative practice

Get out of your head and into your body with playful, creative, and expressive methods.

Let’s use creative ways to sense what’s changing

I can help you:

– grow your futures and foresight skillset

– develop greater agency and find new pathways forward on complex challenges

– shape the future as it emerges

– lead change in uncertain times

The Future Does Not Exist

A 7 day introduction to thinking about the future

Curious about futures and foresight and not sure where to start?

The Future Does Not Exist is a critical and creative introduction to the world of futures and foresight.

Pairing core concepts with practical activities, this guide will help you to :

  • ask better questions
  • become more comfortable with uncertainty
  • sense into your blind spots
  • notice weak signals of emerging futures
  • make more resilient and considered decisions.

Futures Book Club Reading List

A collection of 100+ book recommendations on futures, foresight, and adjacent disciplines

Choose your own adventure in developing your futures and foresight literacy by diving into a collection of books recommended by Amanda and the members of the former Futures Book Club (RIP).

Whether you are just beginning on your journey into futures & foresight, or you are an experienced practitioner further honing your craft, there is a book here for everyone. The catalogue is sorted into categories, including:

  • How to Future
  • Trends
  • Hopeful Futures
  • Wildcards (related reads but not strictly futures)
  • Futures Fiction
  • Futures Leadership
  • Beyond Capitalism
  • True Story
  • Design Futures
  • Facilitating Change
  • Future Ancestors
  • Big History (to look forward, first we must look back…)
  • Future You (personal futures)
  • Decolonising Futures
  • Futures of Work

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Thinking Out Loud

Serving up a second round of Futures Sampler for Change Agents

Serving up a second round of Futures Sampler for Change Agents

Futures Sampler for Change Agents is back in March Experience five methods for inviting the future into the way you lead change Keen to dip your toe into foresight but not sure where to start? Seeking to sample a variety of approaches to figure out where futures can bolster the way you approach change? Looking to explore the future more systematically while also bringing your creative and playful self? Want to have more meaningful conversations about where we are headed, what future you are…

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Infuse your strategy with futures – the February Book of the Month is here!

Infuse your strategy with futures – the February Book of the Month is here!

Foresight Infused Strategy is the Futures Book Club featured read for January! Future Infused Strategy: A how-to guide for using foresight in practice from Maree Conway “Conventional strategic planning processes have become tired, formulaic, and rarely produce truly innovative and futures ready strategy. This book takes you into the world of foresight infused strategy, with people at it’s core and collaboration as its primary process. Using foresight approaches in your strategy development is…

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Final days to get the sweet low membership to Futures Book Club

Final days to get the sweet low membership to Futures Book Club

Hey Reader, Is building your futures and foresight literacy part of your plan for 2024? The Futures Book Club is a low pressure, high recommendation, social way to learn about futures and foresight methods and mindset. And right now you can secure your membership at a staggeringly good deal – $AUD24 per year, or $AUD3 month to month. The window to join at this phenomenally low price is closing. From 1 Feb, prices will be increasing. Join before the price hike to get your membership fee locked…

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Wabi Sabi Futures

Wabi Sabi Futures facilitates exploration at the edge of where futures, foresight, change leadership, and arts practice intersect.

I live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung who form part of the Kulin nation, in Naarm (modern-day Melbourne).

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