We Are Not a Relay Race
Most of us inherit the future the way a runner inherits a baton: pick up what was handed to you, run as hard as you can, and pass it on exactly as you received it. But what if that’s the wrong way to think about what gets passed between generations? What if it’s less like a relay race, and more like a river? Recently, TFSX co-founder Frank Spencer had the privilege of hosting Nora Bateson alongside her daughter, Sahra Brubeck,…
The Creativity Genome
September 2026 • The Intentional Evolution Experiment “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”— Carl Jung The Year of Intentional Evolution continues with a question about one of humanity’s oldest and most consequential capacities: What if evolution is still designing through us? Evolution has always depended on variation. A mutation introduces something different. An organism adapts. An ecosystem responds. New possibilities emerge, and some become part of what comes next. Human…
Reality Is Not a Jigsaw Puzzle
Most organizations approach the future as if it were a puzzle. They search for signals, collect data, analyze trends, and hope that if they gather enough pieces, a complete picture will emerge. The assumption is simple: the future already exists somewhere “out there,” waiting to be discovered. But what if that assumption is wrong? What if reality is less like a jigsaw puzzle and more like a sculpture? Recently, on Creating Foresight Fueled Action, Frank Spencer sat down with writer…
Designed for Connection
August 2026 • The Intentional Evolution Experiment “The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.”— Gregory Bateson The Year of Intentional Evolution continues with a question that lives between us: What if connection is the architecture of evolution itself? Throughout nature, resilience emerges through relationship. Forests exchange nutrients through underground fungal networks. Coral reefs flourish through intricate interdependence. The human body depends on trillions of microorganisms working…
Don’t Confuse Forecasting with Foresight
In a world that is enamored with short-term actions, incremental innovation, and quantifying everything, it’s important to understand that “forecasting” and “foresight” are not the same thing. They may have the future in common, but that does not make them equals. Forecasting uses quantitative data and trends in an attempt to fill in gaps and extrapolate outcomes. However, data by its very nature is a snapshot of the past (just as trends are the present – you know about them…
Decolonizing the Mind
July 2026 • The Intentional Evolution Experiment “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”— African Proverb The Year of Intentional Evolution continues with a question that reaches beneath systems and into the stories that shape perception itself: What futures become possible when imagination is no longer confined by inherited narratives? Human beings do not experience the world neutrally. Culture, language, education, media, and institutions shape what feels normal, desirable, and…
Work, Unworked
June 2026 • The Intentional Evolution Experiment “The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.”— William Gibson The Year of Intentional Evolution continues with a question that reaches into one of the deepest structures shaping modern life: What happens when work is no longer the center of everything? For generations, work has organized more than economies. It has shaped identity, structured time, defined success, and influenced how value is measured. Productivity became a cultural rhythm. Exhaustion became…
Embodied Cognition, Neurodiversity, and the Futures We Can Feel
What if foresight begins with how we relate – to ourselves, each other, and what is emerging? A Conversation with Rachel Fell | Consultant, Co-Explorer, and Collaborator to Humans and Organizations of Uncommon Intelligence and Vision In this episode of Creating Foresight-Fueled Action, Frank Spencer sits down with Rachel Fell to explore how embodied cognition and neurodiversity expand our capacity to perceive, interpret, and shape the future—together. “Our bodies have mapped to meaning and do hold meaning physically—meaning and association.”rachel…
Rewilding Civilization
May 2026 • The Intentional Evolution Experiment “In nature, nothing exists alone.”— Rachel carson The Year of Intentional Evolution continues with a question that moves from how we relate to one another into how we relate to the living world: What if thriving emerges through coherence with life itself? If April tuned us to the frequencies shaping how we lead, create, and relate, May invites us to step into a deeper terrain, one where civilization begins to realign with the…
Feminine Frequencies
April 2026 • The Intentional Evolution Experiment “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” — Audre Lorde The Year of Intentional Evolution continues with a question that moves from our systems into our ways of being: What if the future is shaped through resonance? If January invited us to become conscious of change, February brought that awareness into the body, and March reimagined the systems that structure our lives, April turns toward something more subtle, and more powerful:…
