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Playing with the Future

from Amanda Reeves

Ready to stretch your thinking? I'll help you discover creative ways to sense what's changing and shape the future

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Serving up a second round of Futures Sampler for Change Agents

Futures Sampler for Change Agents is back in March Experience five methods for inviting the future into the way you lead change Keen to dip your toe into foresight but not sure where to start? Seeking to sample a variety of approaches to figure out where futures can bolster the way you approach change? Looking to explore the future more systematically while also bringing your creative and playful self? Want to have more meaningful conversations about where we are headed, what future you are...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Foresight Infused Strategy is the Futures Book Club featured read for January! Future Infused Strategy: A how-to guide for using foresight in practice from Maree Conway “Conventional strategic planning processes have become tired, formulaic, and rarely produce truly innovative and futures ready strategy. This book takes you into the world of foresight infused strategy, with people at it's core and collaboration as its primary process. Using foresight approaches in your strategy development is...

3 months ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader, Is building your futures and foresight literacy part of your plan for 2024? The Futures Book Club is a low pressure, high recommendation, social way to learn about futures and foresight methods and mindset. And right now you can secure your membership at a staggeringly good deal - $AUD24 per year, or $AUD3 month to month. The window to join at this phenomenally low price is closing. From 1 Feb, prices will be increasing. Join before the price hike to get your membership fee locked...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Four Thousand Weeks is the Futures Book Club featured read for January! Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - from Oliver Burkeman “We live in an age of impossible demands, infinite choice, relentless distraction and spiralling global crises. Yet most productivity advice, like other modern messages about time, makes things worse. It encourages the fantasy that we might one day “get everything done”, becoming the fully optimized, emotionally invincible masters of our time. The...

4 months ago • 2 min read

Almost a decade ago I was working in public health, discussing workforce strategy. We were trying to figure out how many of the different healthcare professionals - the many types of doctors, nurses, and allied health workers - that we would need to start studying that year to meet our future workforce needs. To work this out, we started by looking at the big, well established trends that we were already feeling the effect of, like the ageing workforce creating a spike in retirements, and the...

4 months ago • 2 min read

New course: Futures Sampler for Change Agents Experience five methods for inviting the future into the way you lead change Keen to dip your toe into foresight but not sure where to start? Ready to sample a variety of approaches to figure out where futures can integrate into your approach? Want to have meaningful conversations about where we are headed, what future you are trying to create, and what this all means for your actions in the present? Introducing the Futures Sampler 5 methods over...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Imaginable is the Futures Book Club featured read for October! Imaginable: How to see the future coming and feel ready for anything - by Jane McGonigal “With a gamer’s affinity for imagined worlds and the futurist’s gusto for embracing what comes next, Jane McGonigal urges us to place ourselves ten years hence, look around, imagine what might be, ask questions, run into walls, start anew. Imaginable is both argument for action and blueprint, an irresistible thought-experiment with practical,...

6 months ago • 2 min read

Doughnut Economics is the Futures Book Club featured read for October! Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist - by Kate Raworth In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets the needs of all...

7 months ago • 2 min read

Futures Book Club The Manual of Design Fiction is our featured read for September! The Manual of Design Fiction - by Julian Bleecker, Nick Foster, Fabien Girardin & Nicolas Nova The definitive book on design fiction from the originators of the practice, providing a compelling mindset and toolkit for any person or organization grappling with the future and its implications. This has been a much anticipated read in the Club, and with the recent announcement of a new print run we have finally...

8 months ago • 2 min read

Experiencing presence Hello there! The past few weeks have been packed to the rafters with facilitation, discussion, and study. I: co-delivered the first public sessions of Foresight Fundamentals for HR with Reanna Browne of Work Futures spent a few days on Ngunnawal Country talking with public servants about communicating effectively completed my first intensive study for my Masters of Therapeutic Arts Practice on Experiencing and Relational Presence. I arrived to this study with an...

9 months ago • 2 min read
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