Futures Sampler for Change Agents - March 2024

Experience five methods for inviting the future into the way you lead change

Over two days, you’ll sample five different tools from the world of futures and foresight that you can take back to work to support meaningful conversations about where we are headed, what future you want to create, and what this means for your actions in the present.

Each tool helps you explore a different question.

Tool 1: What do we take for granted?

We will play with making our assumptions visible, and explore how the future might be different if these present-day truths no longer held. This involves unlearning, and sharpening your attention to notice what has faded into the background.

Tool 2: What might be possible?

What we see as being possible in the future is shaped by tensions in our understanding of the past, present, and future. We’ll use Lego to feel into these tensions and make our implicit beliefs explicit, helping us move from individual viewpoints to a complex collective understanding.

Tool 3: How does the future emerge?

Here we will explore a model that can help us visualise how the future comes about. We’ll consider how the future emerges from seeds in the present, spot innovations in play that can keep the present fit for purpose or move us towards a desirable future, and how this approach can help us listen for what others are seeking in conversations about change.

Tool 4: Where might we be headed?

With this tool, we will start to hold multiple views of what the future could be at once. We’ll use what we are seeing shifting around us to sketch out some future scenarios and sense-test them, seeing what feels desirable, what seems problematic, and look for points of leverage where we can influence what might unfold.

Tool 5: How can we experience the future in the present?

We end the experience by creating artefacts from potential futures. We will use design fiction to bring to life something that you might encounter in that future that helps to tell the story of where we may be headed.

These sessions are designed to both help you explore the future more systematically while also inviting in your creative and playful self. Throughout the days we will talk about how you can adjust your delivery of these approaches to make them engaging in different contexts.

Dates

This program is delivered over 2 days:

• Tue 12 March 2024, 9:30am - 2:30pm
• Wed 13 March 2024, 9:30am - 1:00pm

Join us and you will:

• experience 5 futures and foresight methods you can take back into your workplace
• learn from Amanda Reeves, a university-trained futurist and seasoned change leader
• take home a handy reference guide to support you in using these methods yourself
• have to option of accessing coaching support to translate these ideas into your work context at a discounted rate.

Have questions? Email amanda@wabisabifutures.com and I'll help you figure out if this is the right fit for what you are seeking.