How do shared beliefs about futures emerge?
A strategic foresight capacity is the outcome of the development and coalescence of individual foresight capacities. Here I see foresight as a neurological and cognitive capacity.
Not Knowing
In futures work, we aim to seek out and explore as many perspectives as we can find about our futures in the present. This immediately generates judgement...
Reflections on Strategic Planning
Not all of us truly understand that creating futures ready strategy starts inside us, in our minds, in our worldviews, in our biases, in our tacit beliefs.
Telling or Experiencing Foresight
Foresight really only makes sense to people in ways that change how they think about futures when it is experienced, when it is 'felt' - this should be the aim of all foresight process
Trust Emergence, or Emerging into Being as a Foresight Practitioner
I think I first heard the phrase trust emergence from Joseph Voros when we were
working together more than two decades ago to do foresight at Swinburne
University of Technology. It's become something of a mantra for me ever since,
allowing me to let go of my deeply ingrained need
Futures Folks
People who think about futures for a living are an almost indefinable group of
people. They come from all walks of life, with unique experiences and a curious
mindset, and are open to difference and the new.
I fell into foresight in 1999 - that's how it felt - when
Assumptions Again
Using foresight in practice needs to integrate clear understanding of how we *think* about futures as well as how to *do* futures.
