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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,…

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…

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…

Former Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe, shares her vision with TFSX Co-Founder Frank Spencer in this latest installment of Creating Foresight-Fueled Action. Her “Manifesto for the Future” proposes bold ideas like universal basic income to tackle the challenges of an aging population in a changing economy. Sophie believes embedding a foresight culture is key to driving progress. She states that we must nurture a system where leaders can lift their heads above today’s crises to envision – and…

In this interview, TFSX Principal Frank Spencer speaks with ARTEFACTO Founders Andrea Busquets and Pablo Reyes Arellano about their work with organizations and to “move social structures, improve quality of life, be disruptive, imagine what does not exist and bring it to life.”

In this edition of TFSX’s Creating Foresight-Fueled Action series, Principal Frank Spencer digs into the possibilities for thriving that stem from humanity’s desire to explore with physician, aquanaut, dive medical technician, speaker, martial artist, skydiver, and VP of Immersive Medicine at Luxsonic Technologies, Dr. Shawna Pandya.