Creating Foresight Fueled Action: Dr. Camila Mozzini- Alister
Embodying the Future into Existence In this important interview, Dr. Camila Mozzini- Alister pulls on her years of study, practice, and experiential public installations to address how the human body is the first and ultimate creative substratum, noting that the entirety of material reality we have created around us is shaped by the human body. Throughout the process of observing relationships between bodies, we must understand how we are shifting the perception of ourselves through the technologies and technological pathways…
Foresight at the End of the World
Panel Discussion Explore the transformative potential of foresight in the panel discussion “Foresight at the End of the World,” hosted by Sarah Owen from Futures Friends and moderated by Frank Spencer of TFSX. This session redefines foresight as an intrinsic ability spanning biological, psychological, and sacred dimensions, guiding us toward regenerative models. Esteemed panelists, including Dr. Marcus Bussey, Zan Chandler, Thomas Klaffke, Pablo Reyes Arellano, Bárbara Ferrer Lanz, Sahana Chattopadhyay, and Akash Das emphasize diverse narratives, human-centered practices, and cultural…
Creating Foresight Fueled Action: Riane Eisler
Reclaiming Our Cooperative Potential We can talk about trends, emerging issues, change, and future visions as much as we want – and generate excitement about the positive potential of futures thinking for our businesses and governments – and still never escape the gravity of our guiding narratives fashioned around domination and competition. Constructing these futures are very different on the surface but fundamentally driving the same destructive nature at their core. In this formative interview, TFSX co-founder Frank Spencer speaks…
5 Tips to Avoid “Foresight Burnout”
If you’ve learned about Strategic Foresight recently, you’re likely wondering how to start socializing it to the broader organization. You recognize that there’s disruption and opportunity just on the horizon and you want to capitalize on that information without interrupting the flow of everyday business. Sadly, the future is not on everyone’s radar (except if you’re talking risk, or certainty). You need creative ways to inspire the team to consider the pull of the future without overwhelming them. Here’s five…
Creating Foresight Fueled Action: Cécile Cremer
“We need to ask the wrong questions!” Cécile Cremer “We need to ask the wrong questions!” That’s certainly not a phrase that you will hear very often, but it’s at the very heart of the message that Futurist Cécile Cremer has for her clients and audiences around the world. Too often we ask the “right” questions to get the “right” answers – ideas that are already widely accepted as being relevant and impactful. In this collectively liminal era of systemic…
Creating Foresight Fueled Action: Sahana Chattopadhyay
Foresight is a global practice, with communities across the world. The latest episode of our Creating Foresight Fueled Action series – connecting TFSX principal Frank Spencer in Florida with speaker, writer, systems thinker, and pattern seeker Sahana Chattopadhyay in Mumbai is evidence of this global reach. In their insightful and profound conversation, Frank and Sahana discuss the essence of community, leadership, and the imperative of embracing “pluriversal” perspectives. Sahana draws from her corporate community management experience, emphasizing that authentic communities…
Ten Tips From Disney’s (Ex) Futurist
As Disney’s futurist, and in the decade following my tenure with the mouse, I’ve successfully championed foresight efforts across corporate, non-profit, and governmental sectors. This real world experience is woven throughout our custom client engagements, as well as in our capacity building and certification programs. If I had to boil these 25+ years of experience into a more digestible “top 10” list, this would be the result! 1. Ask for forgiveness, not permission I’ve seen so many foresight efforts stall…
In Our Futurist Eras
Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ve experienced the Taylor Swift Effect. Between her album re-releases (Taylor’s Version), her NFL take-over (she put Travis Kelce on the map), and, of course, her record breaking Eras Tour (now a feature film), there’s been no escaping Tay-Tay’s impact. What you may not know, unless you’re a die hard Swiftie, is that her sold out concert takes fans through a tour of all of her past album releases, or “eras.” (Even…
My Futurist Era: Nicole’s Version
Chapter One – Dancing on my own, I make the moves up as I go My foresight journey began on a Marley dance floor. While I studied dance formally throughout my entire young life, I never felt like I really fit the mold of a traditional dancer. I wanted to bend differently, respecting my technique while ultimately telling an immersive story to the audience in a way that felt fluid and organic. Two milestones finally made me feel validated that…
My Futurist Era: Frank’s Version
Chapter One – I Was a Teenage Sci-Fi Geek The year was 1979, about 10 years before the birth of Taylor Swift herself, and I was building my own back-yard special effects department (better known as the family garage) where, along with a gang of after-school make-up artists, set designers, monster creators, shoe-string FX developers, and week-end model makers (better known as my elementary school friends), we created the world’s greatest Super-8 sci-fi and horror films (according to the unbiased…
