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Institute for the Future

Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action

When you get better at thinking about the future, you get better at changing the future. This course will help you take all of the foresight skills you’ve developed so far and apply them to making real positive change in your life, in your work, and in the world around you. You’ll learn how to create and share “preferred futures”, which are highly persuasive, compelling visions of the changes you want to make real. You’ll use your preferred future to identify obstacles, recruit allies, collect resources, and plan action to make your vision real. You’ll also practice making “artifacts” from the future, which are creative representations of how everyday life might be different in the future. Artifacts can inspire others to join you in your quest to make a preferred future real. Leading futurists from the Institute for the Future will share with you their favorite future artifacts – and walk you through the entire creative process it took to make them. Every action we take today changes the future. This course will help you identify and take the actions that make the BIGGEST, most strategic impacts on the most urgent challenges you and society face. Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.

状态:Creativity
状态:Leadership
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RG

4.0评论日期:Jun 30, 2020

It´s interesting, the professor gives useful tools, i think they could make it shorter, there's repeating parts that could be avoid, also I haven't got my diploma.

DW

5.0评论日期:Aug 26, 2022

Terrific - practical, interesting, well structured, and highly engaging. Definitely recommend!

NK

5.0评论日期:May 9, 2020

Incredibly important class if you want to be a futurist or an entrepreneur, or even if you want to understand the future. 100% recommend this, you are not wasting time, rather you will be gaining it.

JC

5.0评论日期:Dec 4, 2020

Worth taking it. Applicable skills in other fields; transferrable soft skills in any job.

AZ

5.0评论日期:Jul 18, 2021

This course is the best of the conclusions in this specialization. I would never regret taking this course

PM

5.0评论日期:Jan 26, 2023

I loved this courese and learnt so much. The tools are practical, well explained and demonstrated and I can't wait to put them to use in my work

ZC

5.0评论日期:Apr 10, 2020

I found it really useful and interesting. A lot of practical tools and tips for my current work

SM

5.0评论日期:Jun 4, 2020

The whole specialisation is a necessary foundation step to get into critical thinking about what the future might bring and how we can start to influence it. Lots of food for thoughts, and ACTION!

YQ

5.0评论日期:Oct 21, 2020

Very good course that teaches different ways to spark actions from ideas

DK

5.0评论日期:Apr 11, 2020

Brought all the previous learnings together and learned lots of tools to carry the concepts forward.

KG

4.0评论日期:May 8, 2020

Excellent case studies presented. The skills taught and tools used are relevant to bringing changes and identifying futures

BB

5.0评论日期:Dec 25, 2020

Great Course by all standards. Prepares one for what is yet to come

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