Category: Transform

What if futures work didn’t begin with data, trends, or models—but with the body? Much of strategic foresight has been shaped by rational analysis: signals, patterns, scenarios, and frameworks designed to help us make sense of complexity. These tools matter. But they are incomplete on their own. In this Creating Foresight-Fueled Action (CFFA) conversation, Frank Spencer is joined by Julienne DeVita and Lourdes Rodriguez to explore an emerging and deeply human approach to futures practice: embodied foresight. Rather than asking…

This episode of Creating Foresight-Fueled Action, titled “Beyond the Few and Powerful: You Can Build the Future Too!”, features influential futures thinker and collaborator at Radar, Keely Adler.  The conversation is the final installment of the series, “Foresight Needs an Intervention”, addressing the bifurcation occurring in the field of foresight.  Keely and Frank explore radical alternatives to the traditional, top-down structure of futures work, contrasting “Keynote Futuring,” characterized as colonization and reinforcing existing power structures, with the human-scaled, participatory approach…

For our next installment of Creating Foresight-Fueled Action, get ready for an incredibly thought-provoking panel discussion featuring the brilliant minds of amalia deloney, Jen Briselli, and Michelle Shevin.  This conversation dives deep into the urgent question of where the field of foresight is headed, challenging its traditional linear, mechanistic, and often “one and done” approaches. We explore how Strategic Foresight has historically leaned toward maintaining the status quo for powerful institutions, sometimes missing a clear values framework or vision for…

When it comes to transforming systems, Adam Kahane has had a front row view. As a key scenario facilitator in the Mont Fleur negotiations that ended apartheid in South Africa, and “The Future of Colombia” peace negotiations that brought together rebels (National Liberation Army), resistance leaders (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia/FARC), and various paramilitary factions to transform the country, Kahane learned just how crucial it is to have new stories to create a new reality.  In this interview for our…

It begins with a stark and unambiguous assertion: Foresight and Futures Thinking needs an intervention. Founder, Field Catalyst, and Ecosystem Coordinator Michelle Shevin states that much of the futures thinking seen in institutions like intelligence agencies and multinational corporations “starts with a lie”. She argues for de-centering traditional practices where “Warning signs become sites for new business development” and “Urgent issues are recast as terrain for potential industrial complexes”. Instead, she calls for recognizing the centrality of relationship and love…

Democracy’s tenuous viability is in part due to our exponentially changing landscape of technological access, economic precarity, and environmental collapse. What might be called a “polycrisis” of multiple, simultaneous, and convergent “wicked problems” has flung open the door of widespread fear, doubt, and anger about a landscape where many have been left out of the future altogether. (As well as a present that is devoid of visions for a more hopeful future that starts right now.)

At TFSX, we have spent the past two decades establishing the idea and practice of the Inner Futurist, having created a dynamic philosophy of futures thinking as a cooperative evolutionary trait known as Holoptic Foresight that promotes the democratization of futures thinking, and that undergirds the concepts and implementation of our world-renowned framework known as Natural Foresight.

Leadership qualities tend to be timeless. It’s why we look back through history at the esteemed individuals who led successful businesses, governments and social initiatives. The thinking goes that, if we can emulate these trailblazers, we will be successful leaders too.

It was here in Bell Valley that team members from The Futures School gathered in the Fall of 2022 with fourteen brilliant and kind individuals for a truly unique experience based on rethinking, redefining and reframing foresight for broad-based prosperity, emerging consciousness and cocreation of transformational realities. We called this retreat Transformations of Natural Foresight®.

What are the rules and characteristics of this new era, The Age of Opportunity?