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Course Overview
This interactive futures course is based on the Six Pillars approach to Futures Studies. Participants will engage with powerful tools like the Futures Triangle, Emerging Issues Analysis, the Futures Wheel, Scenario Planning, Causal Layered Analysis, Visioning, and Backcasting to explore and create alternative and preferred futures.
Working in teams on topics relevant to their fields—such as the future of organizational structures, aging and productivity, housing and homelessness, gender equity, or peace and conflict—participants will explore possibilities for the next two decades. Real-world case studies will illustrate these methods, providing practical context and application.
Over the two days, participants will not only deepen their understanding of themselves, their organizations, and the shifting global landscape, but also gain personal and professional insights. You will leave equipped with strategies for shaping the future of X and with a clearer sense of your own life narratives, and knowing what steps you need to take to achieve your visions.
Course Objectives
Course Objectives
Strengthen Leaders' Transformation Skills
Strengthen leaders' ability to initiate and guide the transformation of their organizations towards a futures-oriented approach, enabling them to shape both their desired futures and those of the broader community.
Enhance Strategy and Policy Effectiveness
Enhance the effectiveness of strategy and policymaking through the use of appropriate futures methodological tools including emerging issues analysis, the futures triangle, causal layered analysis, macro and micro scenarios, visioning and backcasting.
Clarify Future Trends and Drivers
Clarify trends – particularly changes in societal values and other critical drivers - impacting the future - that is, use the future to create the present.
Envision Preferred Futures Strategies
Develop forecasts, identify emerging issues, create scenarios, envision preferred futures, and conduct backcasting to enhance organizational effectiveness, focusing on achieving sustainable and long-lasting improvements rather than short-term gains.
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