Discover the art of futures thinking through the Futures Thinking Specialization by the Institute for the Future. This program equips you with the skills and mindsets of professional futurists, enabling you to anticipate and prepare for disruptions, and shape the future to your advantage. Throughout this comprehensive course, you'll:
By the end of the specialization, you'll develop a more future-oriented mindset, gain insight into new technologies and global events shaping the future, and think more creatively and optimistically about future possibilities. Join this program to become someone who shapes the future, rather than letting it happen to you.
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Master essential foresight techniques, simulation skills, and collaborative foresight. Turn your foresight into action by creating artifacts from the future and organizing communities for change.
Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking
Define futures thinking and explore past changes to predict future trends
Master essential foresight techniques and learn to collect and analyze signals of change
Identify historical change in the past to predict new changes in the future
Learn how to avoid future shock - and help others avoid it, too!
Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens
Master the art of collecting and analyzing signals of change
Identify and analyze global drivers of change
Combine signals and drivers into future forecasts
Write scenarios that tell a story about your future forecasts
Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future
Overcome psychological barriers to effective futures thinking
Practice simulation techniques for “unsticking” the mind when it comes to seeing what’s possible in the future
Learn to lead others through “first-person future” simulations
Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future
Design and run a multiplayer forecasting game
Game out hard-to-predict consequences in any future scenario
Anticipate long-term harms of new technologies and how to prevent them
Create diverse, inclusive futures thinking communities
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action
Describe your preferred future
Create artifacts from the future
Build an action roadmap to change the future
Organize a community to change the future
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