Futures Thinking
Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what’s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get better at changing what’s possible today – in your company, your industry, your community, and in your own life?
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Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what’s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get better at changing what’s possible today – in your company, your industry, your community, and in your own life?
Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what’s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get better at changing what’s possible today – in your company, your industry, your community, and in your own life?
This Specialization will introduce you to the practice of futures thinking, as developed and applied for the past 50 years by the Institute for the Future, a Silicon-Valley-based research and learning group founded in 1968. You’ll master essential foresight techniques. You’ll meet leading professional futurists. And you’ll choose one or more future topics you want to investigate with your new foresight skills.
The Futures Thinking specialization is for anyone who wants to spot opportunities for innovation and invention faster. You can gain the skills and confidence to help YOU become someone who makes the future, instead of letting the future happen to you. You'll develop a more future-oriented mindset to make positive changes in your own life, as you start to see new possibilities more clearly and craft the personal future you want.
This specialization is based on the “How to Think Like a Futurist” workshops taught by Jane McGonigal, PhD for Stanford University Continuing Studies. By taking this specialization, you'll have access to key lessons and tools from the Institute for the Future’s professional “Foresight Training” certification program.
What's inside
Five courses
Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking
Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking
Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens
Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens
Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future
Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future
Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future
Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action
Learning objectives
- Build your future forecasting skills.
- Learn how to use institute for the future’s most powerful foresight tools, designed to help you spot new opportunities for innovation and invention.
- Gain insight into the most important new technologies, global events and big ideas that are already shaping the future.
- Think more creatively and optimistically about what’s possible in the future.
- Build your future forecasting skills.
- Learn how to use institute for the future’s most powerful foresight tools, designed to help you spot new opportunities for innovation and invention.
- Gain insight into the most important new technologies, global events and big ideas that are already shaping the future.
- Think more creatively and optimistically about what’s possible in the future.
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