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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…
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…
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…
Find fulfillment in your finite life – the January Book of the Month is here!
Four Thousand Weeks is the Futures Book Club featured read for January! Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – from Oliver Burkeman “We live in an age of impossible demands, infinite choice, relentless distraction and spiralling global crises. Yet most productivity advice, like other modern messages about time, makes things worse. It encourages the fantasy that we might one day “get everything done”, becoming the fully optimized, emotionally invincible masters of our time. The…
How foresight found me
Almost a decade ago I was working in public health, discussing workforce strategy. We were trying to figure out how many of the different healthcare professionals – the many types of doctors, nurses, and allied health workers – that we would need to start studying that year to meet our future workforce needs. To work this out, we started by looking at the big, well established trends that we were already feeling the effect of, like the ageing workforce creating a spike in retirements, and the…
Fancy sampling a smorgasbord of futures?
New course: Futures Sampler for Change Agents 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? Ready to sample a variety of approaches to figure out where futures can integrate into your approach? Want to have meaningful conversations about where we are headed, what future you are trying to create, and what this all means for your actions in the present? Introducing the Futures Sampler 5 methods over…
Feel ready for anything – the November Book of the Month is here!
Imaginable is the Futures Book Club featured read for October! Imaginable: How to see the future coming and feel ready for anything – by Jane McGonigal “With a gamer’s affinity for imagined worlds and the futurist’s gusto for embracing what comes next, Jane McGonigal urges us to place ourselves ten years hence, look around, imagine what might be, ask questions, run into walls, start anew. Imaginable is both argument for action and blueprint, an irresistible thought-experiment with practical,…
Go Beyond Capitalism – the October Book of the Month is here!
Doughnut Economics is the Futures Book Club featured read for October! Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist – by Kate Raworth In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray – from selling us the myth of ‘rational economic man’ to obsessing over growth at all costs – and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets the needs of all…
Let’s get speculative – the September Book of the Month is here!
The Manual of Design Fiction is our featured read for September! The Manual of Design Fiction - by Julian Bleecker, Nick Foster, Fabien Girardin & Nicolas Nova The definitive book on design fiction from the originators of the practice, providing a compelling...
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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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