FuturePod

Jorge brings his nerdiness to help people and organisations understand what is changing around them and how to use that to help decision-making. He believes that the work of people like him in Mexico and others elsewhere is re-enchanting our field.

Richard speaks about COVID-19 as not just being a threat, it is also a gift. He explains there is an opportunity to understand more deeply what are we doing that works in our favour and what in fact works against us in society. It is also an opportunity for nature to re-establish itself.

Riel provides us with positive perspectives during this time of shock. Discussing how this pandemic is a powerful opportunity to make a fundamental change in how humans make choices, and the immense power of a capability we all hold, imagination.

John reminds us that futures are still plural, and the importance of holding the space for possibilities. One of the most immediate things each of us can do, is pay careful attention to the language we use to navigate this time.

Peter Bishop speaks about how a new era is possible, though not guaranteed; this historical moment breaks the frame, opening up the possibility for innovation, or we might snap back to how we were before.

Bridgette speaks about her interest in the unintended consequences of the pandemic, including to her pet projects such as the ‘future of work’, and her day to day existence as a Senior Lecturer at a University who has moved completely online.

Paul talks through his publicly available COVID-19 scenarios for organisational strategy. He also speaks about some of potential changes for working visas to Australia, from skilled migrants, to partner visas to permanent residency.

Kieran speaks about the importance of making sure reinvention is still part of our stories, and his use of Jim Dator’s ‘Four Archetypes’ to help clients make sense of, and respond well and capitalise on opportunities from the disruption.

Stuart Candy is another of the new generation of hybrid futures practitioners who works with thinking, imagery, narrative and experience to create powerful and personal experiences in both academic, policy and life spaces.

Donna is passionate about how Emergency Management and how foresight can help them. She sees herself as a bridge between the two professional domains. The evolutionary paradigm of resilience gives her hope that we can manage the current and future emergency challenges we all face.

Peter has some important reflections on how we have come on-board an outdated old vessel and the difference between snapping back to spend more and more money in keeping her afloat or taking only what we need to re-set the future.

Listen to Frank get jazzed up about complexity, and discuss how Foresight is our destiny. He explains that we need Holoptic Foresight, and that leadership needs to be a collective and cooperative process.

Victor introduces you to the twin brothers of the Wise and Ignorant mind as part of how he seeks integral futures. He also discusses the Pandamic (China’s general influence) and also the Pandemic (COVID-19).

Deb talks about this as the perfect time to use futures thinking in all levels of education. She also discusses the new language and identification that is arising and their impacts, from ‘essential’, to ‘global citizen’.

Rob encourages us to pause and look at this unique opportunity that could never be planned, to think about what the world ‘could’ look like. He personally is looking for examples of leadership and signals of change in our global structures.

Rowena speaks about how COVID-19 is allowing us to view our cultural and societal cracks. She also observes how the futures tool of scenarios has been quickly and broadly taken up and used by leadership in Australia to help navigate this time.

Sohail speaks about, science and spirit, the connection between environment and conciousness, slowing down and the symbolic security of the face mask during the time of COVID-19. His guidance is to chose frames wisely when thinking about the future beyond COVID.

Tom takes you through his journey from being a graduate at university, to hospital psychologist, to educator and finally author. The twin ideas of Futures Consciousness and the centrality of Science Fiction emerged from that journey.

Patricia is an internationally recognised, self-taught, pragmatic futures practitioner who works in the people-space when the problem is not technical. She believes we should all use our foresight muscle and focus on making it stronger.

Yvonne's is a story of how we grow up as human beings and also the journey of both inward and outward honesty.

Charles describes how he finds it easy to have conversations about the future with everyone he meets. He explains the use of his favourite tool, the Futures Cone, and his long-time engagement with Schools and Futures.

Conversation question: “Should the field abandon preferred futures? Recently, Richard Slaughter even called into question the efficacy of 'alternative futures'...How can (and must) the futures field shift in both theory and practice to deal with this core tension?“

A futures powerhouse and greatly respected globally, Wendy speaks about art, poetry and music; the tools of culture, to create more evocative, vivid and more densely experiential futures, and much more.

Bryan discusses scanning as a client service and product, the notion of human identity, the globalisation of culture and the future of Higher Education.

Hazel saw first hand the evolution of technology and business with its impacts on political power and from that came her life work, tracking and promoting the technologies and mind sets for the Solar Age.