Foresight in Challenging Environments * Journal of Futures Studies
a polyvagal futures literacy offers foresight practitioners and learners a powerful framework for meeting the future with agency, hope, and inner resourcefulness in the face of its complexity.
Kenneth Wee • Exploring a Polyvagal Futures Literacy * Journal of Futures Studies
Contemporary scholars such as Sohail Inayatullah, Roberto Poli and Riel Miller emphasize the importance of futures literacy, which is the capacity to imagine, critique and reframe multiple futures. Futures literacy expands our ability to navigate uncertainty and enables people to generate new meanings rather than simply extrapolate from current tre... See more
Practical imagination
moments of shared conscious reflection on the loops that connect thought, action and results. Yet, it’s not far-fetched to hope that in the future, every profession or expert will do just this, with much more explicit predictions of what might happen and much more visible learning from what actually does happen.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
In terms of Strategic Foresight, messes are obstacles in your path to a preferred future – the “what could stop you” influencing not just the future that you want to get to, but also how you get there.
Patricia Lustig • Strategic Foresight
In the excitement of a looming opportunity, decision makers are infamous for concentrating on what a strategy could do for them if it succeeded and not enough, or at all, on what it could do to them if it failed. To combat this potentially ruinous overoptimism, time needs to be devoted, systematically, to addressing a pair of questions that often d
... See moreRobert Cialdini • Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
“if we can recognise that change and uncertainty are basic principles,” as the futurist and environmentalist Hazel Henderson put it, “we can greet the future… with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic .” You can take a crisis very seriously indeed without fooling yourself that you know the worst outcome is certain.