Blowing open the doors to the future: experiential futures methods

Dr. Schultz has designed futures research projects for NGOs, government agencies, and businesses. Wendy specializes in participatory futures workshops – most recently online for the ILO; other examples include F2F workshops offering foresight training in Kuala Lumpur; at A Temporary Futures Institute at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp; for Africa Knows in Arusha, Tanzania; with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva, New York, and Bangkok; and in Budapest for Vodafone. These workshops are exploratory, provocative, and creative. Wendy teaches futures studies in the Masters Program in Strategic Foresight at the University of Houston; is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Post-Normal Policy and Futures Studies; a member of the Association of Professional Futurists; and a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation.

Event Agenda:

10.15 Zoom Room opens; assistance with the Miro board is available then.

10.30 Start! Introductions - on Zoom and on the Miro board

10.40 Shared History - building a timeline

11.00 Overview of Futures Concepts and Tools

11.15 First Horizon: Causal Layered Analysis - digging into the systems, values, and myths underlying surface events

11.45 Break - 10 minutes

11.55 Third Horizon: Scanning for Change - identifying trends, emerging issues, weak signals, and wild cards

12.25 Futures Wheels, part I - cascading impacts of change creating paths to the future

12.45 Lunch Break - 30 minutes

13.15 Futures Wheels, part II - more change, more impacts

13.45 Alternative Futures - Manoa Scenario Building

14.15 Sharing Scenarios of Alternative Futures - identifying what we want - and what we want to avoid.

14.45 Build a Vision

15.00 Backcast - working backward from your vision to actions today

15.20 Debrief

15.30 Thank you - see you in our futures!