Would you like to be part of a Futures thinking Community of Practice (CoP)?

On the first Friday of each month (Sep, Oct, Nov 2024, 10-11am) we’ll host an online CoP where participants can pose questions, share resources, connect with like-minded future focused individuals and engage in deeper conversations on futures thinking.

Simply send us an email if you would like to prototype this with us, and we'll send through a calendar invite + ZOOM link to confirm.

Would you like to be part of a Futures thinking Community of Practice (CoP)?

On the first Friday of each month (Sep, Oct, Nov 2024, 10-11am) we’ll host an online CoP where participants can pose questions, share resources, connect with like-minded future focused individuals and engage in deeper conversations on futures thinking.

Simply send us an email if you would like to prototype this with us, and we'll send through a calendar invite + ZOOM link to confirm.

Experiential Futures for Strategy and Innovation with Roger Dennis:

This learning intensive will strengthen your approach to strategy and innovation by incorporating experiential futures into your professional toolkit. Drawing on the wildly successful ‘showcase engagement workshops’ which drew international attention and connected thousands of people to the Canterbury Health System’s vision and purpose, Roger will share how successive leaders of the Canterbury’s District Health Board embraced futures and foresight to transform a ‘broken system’ to a world-leading one.

There is an appealing simplicity about what the Canterbury health service has done. The starting place was talking with the staff. Mock-ups of healthcare settings were built in a warehouse and groups of staff walked through them to stimulate thinking on solutions for the many challenges they faced in an under-performing system. It was supposed to last a fortnight and involve about 400 people; it eventually ran for six weeks and more than 2,000 people turned up.

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What You Can Expect: 

🔍 Mythbusting Traditional Strategy - Debunking common misconceptions about traditional strategic planning and introducing experiential futures.

🌐 Global Learnings and Local Applications - Insights from Roger’s extensive global experience and application to local contexts.

💼 Integration into Your Work - Tips on how to integrate experiential futures into your leadership, governance, and organisational strategies.

Throughout the session, there will be ample opportunities to reflect, engage with Roger on his extensive global experience, and collaborate with your peers to share ideas and solutions.

Outcomes: You will leave the session equipped with practical tools and strategies for incorporating experiential futures into your strategic planning processes, along with a deeper understanding of the benefits and challenges of modernising communication and innovation practices.

Who This Is For: 👤 This learning experience is designed for professionals and leaders at the beginning of their journey into strategic foresight and innovation. Participants may have extensive experience in other fields but might not have been exposed to experiential futures and interactive communication methodologies.

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Speaker Bio:

Roger Dennis has over two decades of experience advising CEOs and boards on the link between foresight and strategy.

Roger helped establish the world’s largest foresight programme called Future Agenda. He also partnered with an ex-advisor to the UK Prime Minister to deliver public-sector innovation courses in Australasia for the Australia-New Zealand School of Government.

Roger is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, a member of the Digital Council of New Zealand and an Edmund Hilary fellow. He’s written for and contributed to publications globally, including Scientific American, Knowledge at Wharton and the Financial Times.

From 2006 to 2008 he co-led the Shell Technology Futures programme for the GameChanger team in The Hague. In 2015 he led a team analysing the impact of a pandemic on New Zealand, and is now ideating post-COVID recovery for large companies across the Asia Pacific region.

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Tickets: Please register here »

Join us for a transformative executive foresight workshop, "Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation," led by futurists Professor Sohail Inayatullah and Dr. Ivana Milojevic. 

This hands-on workshop is designed to enhance long-range planning and strategic foresight for managers and leaders. Participants will explore advanced futures methodological tools, including the futures triangle, causal layered analysis, macro and micro scenarios, visioning, and backcasting. 

Through interactive sessions and case studies, attendees will clarify emerging trends, identify barriers to desired futures, and develop scenarios. and visions. The workshop aims to empower leaders to create and implement visionary strategies, fostering a deep understanding of self, leadership, and organisational transformation. With a blend of theoretical insights and practical activities, this workshop provides a robust framework for navigating and shaping the future.

Futures Thinking and Strategy Transformation masterclass

A One-Day Participatory Foresight Workshop by Professor Sohail Inayatullah and Dr. Ivana Milojevic'

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Workshop Goals

1. Enhance Long-Range Planning:

   • Utilise futures methodological tools such as the futures triangle, causal layered analysis, macro and micro scenarios, visioning, and backcasting.

2. Transform Organisational Capacity:

   • Foster a futures-orientation within organisations.

3. Clarify Trends and Drivers:

   • Identify changes in societal values and other critical drivers impacting the organization.

4. Identify Organisational Weights:

   • Determine barriers hindering the creation of desired futures.

5. Empower Leaders:

   • Enable leaders and managers to shape both their desired futures and those of the broader community.

6. Develop Forecasts and Scenarios:

   • Create forecasts, emerging issues, scenarios, preferred visions, and backcasts in response to changing societal values.

7. Enhance Vision Delivery:

   • Improve the capacity to implement institutional and organisational visions.
     

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Workshop Outcomes

1. Understanding Futures Methods:

   • Gain familiarity with methods for developing preferred, probable, and possible futures.

2. Causal Layered Analysis:

   • Understand and utilise causal layered analysis to explore core metaphors behind organizational issues.

3. Vision and Policy Development:

   • Develop the ability to analyse and formulate preferred visions and policies for institutions and organizations.

4. Enhanced Futures Understanding:

   • Use futures methods to comprehend probable, possible, and preferred futures better.

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Workshop Facilitators

Prof. Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist and futurist, is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia. He is also Professor at Tamkang University, Taiwan and Associate, Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne. He teaches from Metafuture School where his courses include Become a Futurist and Personal Futures: the CLA of the Self. He is listed in the top two percent of the world’s scientists as measured by the highest impact of citations. His most recent books include CLA 3.0, The End of the Cow and other Emerging Issues, and Asia 2038. In the past year, he has worked with PWC, ANZ; OECD; FAO; INTERPOL; Mitsubishi Motors; the Government of New Zealand; the WHO; the Government of Egypt; the Government of Indonesia; The Asian Development Bank; Globe Telecom; ISESCO; the Philippines Senate; the Pacific Community; GASERC; and the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission.

Dr. Ivana Milojević (/ˈivənə mɪˈlɔɪəvɪtʃ/), Director of Metafuture.org and Metafuture School, is a researcher, writer, and educator with a transdisciplinary professional background spanning sociology, education, gender studies, peace and conflict studies, and futures studies. Since the mid-1990s, Ivana has been actively engaged in delivering speeches, facilitating workshops, and conducting research for various governmental institutions, international associations, and non-governmental organisations across Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Europe. She previously held academic positions at several universities, and is the author or editor of some 150 publications (e.g., academic books, book chapters, journal and magazine articles). In 2016-2017, she led the foresight unit at the Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies in Brunei Darussalam. In 2022-2023, Ivana was a Senior Futures Thinking and Foresight Specialist/Consultant with the Asian Development Bank.

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📅 WHEN - Wednesday 10 July (FULL DAY)
📍 WHERE - academyEX | Tech Futures Lab
🎟 HOW - Spots are limited! Please register here: https://events.humanitix.com/futures-thinking-and-strategy-transformation-masterclass

Please join the Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland team and Leadership Futurist Dr Cheryl Doig for an online learning lunch webinar on personal futures. 

Connect with future focused peers, learn about some futures tools to apply in your personal (and professional) life, and explore a wider range of other personal futures resources after the webinar. 

Whether you're a futures enthusiast or just looking for some useful tools to help guide you in your next chapter, this learning lunch session is a must-attend to gain valuable personal futures insights and inspiration for your own life journey. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn from an industry leader, we’re excited!

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Personal Futures Workshop: What does your future hold?

It's been a big time of change and uncertainty for many people… We see you, we empathise with you, and we would love to support you in reimagining your future. Strategic foresight & futures tools can be just as useful on a personal level, as well as an organisational level. If you’re going through a time of transition and unsure of what the future might hold, this learning lunch webinar might be just what you’re looking for! 

What you can expect:

🔮 What is Personal Futures?

⭐ Exploring your Personal CLA (Causal Layered Analysis)

🔺 Exploring the Future Triangle, and how it might apply in your life

✨ Exploring & deepening your Futures Consciousness

💖 Connection to yourself - Make futures thinking an integral part of your personal & professional life.

You will leave the workshop with tools and ideas for applying futures thinking to your personal (& professional) life, as well as a deeper understanding of the benefits and challenges of taking a futures informed approach to your current challenges.

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Who this is for:

👤 This learning experience has been designed for people who are exploring new possibilities and would like to engage in futures tools & futures thinking as part of this process. It is for those who are curious about strategic foresight & futures, and would like a bite size chunk of possible future scenarios.

However, we understand change is hard, so if our concepts today have raised or triggered any personal concerns for you, we encourage you to please reach out for further support from a registered clinician, counsellor, or text / call 1737.

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Speaker bio:

Dr Cheryl Doig is a leadership futurist, weaver and connector, often known as the #futuresaunty. Cheryl has a passion for growing futures literacy and strategic foresight through her company, Think Beyond. She is the founder of the Ōtautahi Futures Collective, Aotearoa Futures and Oceania Futures.

In 2017 Cheryl was a finalist in the NZ Westpac Women of Influence Awards, in the Innovation and Science category. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury, a professional member of the Association for Professional Futurists and a reviewer for the Journal of Future Studies.

Cheryl has over 30 year’s business and governance experience in education, social impact and health. She is founding trustee of Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Christchurch, a trust focused on growing a local learning ecosystem with a focus on equity, access and innovation. For more information visit www.thinkbeyond.co.nz

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Tickets: Please register here »

Join the Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 's co-founder Victoria Mulligan and Alice Dimond from Tokona te Raki in this FREE virtual event, where they share and reflect on their experiences from attending, participating and moderating a session at the Dubai Futures Forum 2023.

Whether you're a seasoned innovator or just starting out as a futures enthusiast, this event is a must-attend to engage and learn from a couple of Aotearoa New Zealand leading futurists.

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About Dubai Futures Forum:

The Dubai Future Forum is an annual event hosted by the Dubai Future Foundation at the iconic Museum of the Future that brings together futurists, foresight practitioners, thought leaders, and experts from academia and various industries as well as government to anticipate challenges, imagine opportunities, share foresight, and shape the future.

Victoria was asked to moderate a panel "From Hindsight to Foresight: How Can We Tap into Indigenous Wisdom to Prepare for the Future?" and will also share key insights from this discussion.

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About The Speakers:

Alice Dimond (Kāi Tahu) is a social innovator designing solutions for a more equitable future for Māori.

Alice works at Tokona te Raki – Māori Future Makers, leading projects to find solutions to complex social challenges, such as racism, inequity, mana motuhake and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership.

Recently Alice has been involved in a project to design Te Korekoreka, a Māori kawa or process for creating better futures. Te Korekoreka offers a way to reconnect with mātauranga Māori and indigenous knowledge to help design systems that work for everyone.

Victoria Mulligan is the Design Principal at X is Y, where she leads the consultancy’s ways of working practice. She is a builder of things - teams, strategies, services and futures - and uses strategic foresight and participatory futures tools to create more resilient and adaptive strategies, and purposeful cultures.

She is the co-founder of the Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland chapter of Design Futures Initiative, and has recently been working on a project to map the network of Futures practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand; Aotearoa Futures Network Map.

Victoria trained as a psychologist and worked in government and NGOs around the world before joining the private sector. A regular contributor to consumer and academic publications, Victoria is a thought leader at the intersection of design, innovation, business and social good. She lives in Grey Lynn, Auckland with her husband and four young children.

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Tickets

This is a special edition of a Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland event, and offering a FREE virtual event... Please share widely with future-focused friends across Aotearoa New Zealand, and beyond!

The Future of Food

Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland is thrilled to host Quinault Childs, Research Director of the Food Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future (IFTF) in Palo Alto, California. He focuses on exploring the intersection of food systems, society, and climate change, describing possible futures where all of those things look very different than they do today.

His work with the Food Futures Lab is a mix of projecting current-day data into the future, gathering insights from food systems leaders, and developing experiential, imaginative “edible futures” of food. Before IFTF, Quin was involved in launching startups in the food space, including a circular food waste company and the first zero-waste grocery store in Texas. He has a M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Human Factors Engineering, both from Tufts University in Massachusetts.

Date: Mon Feb 26, 2024

Time: 17:30:00 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)

Location: 2degrees Head Office, Fanshawe Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland, New Zealand

This session will be a chance to see some of IFTF's Artifacts From the Future of Food - visual imaginations of how products and environments could be change - as well as hear from Quinault about some of IFTF's latest research on the future of food systems.

Throughout the presentation, we'll run a forecasting exercise designed by Jane McGonigal, IFTF's director of games research, called 100 ways the future could be different. This deceptively simple, fun, and generative process is a great way to quickly develop a diverse set of unexpected future possibilities among a group.

Mark your calendar and join us at The Future of Food on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 2degrees Head Office, Auckland. See you there!

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Tickets

In addition to general admission for waged and unwaged participants we are offering a buy one gift one option. Please take this option if:

a ) you would like the Speculative Futures team to gift a ticket to a community based organisation, or

b ) you would like to gift the ticket to a friend/colleague that might not otherwise think to attend (previous events have seen these tickets go to a local librarian, secondary school students, grandparents, a neighbour - use your imagination)!

Reach out to us if you have any questions: auckland.speculativefutures@gmail.com

“If you can't imagine a better future its extremely hard to make things better.

Imagination and hope are a very important part of making change and underpin so much of the work of hashtag#civilservants

Last month at hashtag#deloittenz I ran a lab of awesome specialists and experts from across our business to shape our role in the hashtag#futureofauckland supporting Public and Private sector organisations to help make Tamaki Makarau Auckland a more prosperous, liveable, safe and world class city.

The session moved us from imagining a better future through to practical today steps to support our cities leaders to create it.

We were so lucky to have my friends and futures experts Jade Tang-Taylor and Victoria Mulligan from Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland come in to support us through the first part of the day using The Human Layers immersive experience by Hannah Smith and Ella Saltmarshe to kick things off and spending some time imagining future scenarios and how we might support the leaders in our city to achieve a better Auckland.

What would your scenarios look like (see one of our prompts below). Have a go with the Human Layers and let me know how it feels (its a good meditation) Id love to hear about it. What ways do you help your teams get in the zone to support others for change?” - Kate Sutton LinkedIn Post

Join the Speculative Futures Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland team and Leadership Futurist Dr Cheryl Doig at Datacom NZ in the heart of Auckland CBD for an exciting event that will level up the way you think about the future. Connect and collaborate with futures minded peers, go deep with futures tools and get your hands dirty in the interactive workshop. Whether you're a seasoned innovator or just starting out, this event is a must-attend to gain valuable insights and inspiration for your own futures journey. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn from an industry leader, we’re excited!

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Transforming Futures: No Crystal Ball Needed

This interactive workshop will extend your understanding of futures and foresight and how you can bring the future into today. You will have the opportunity to explore some futures tools using Tamaki Makaurau as the ‘playground’. Curiosity, collaboration and practical application are the features of the hui.

What you can expect

🔮 Futures Mythbusting - Debunking misconceptions.

🌏 Diverse Futures World Views - Embracing multiple perspectives.

🛠️ Futures Tools Workshop - Practical instruments to carve your path.

💼 Connection to Your Mahi - Make futures thinking an integral part of your professional life.

There will be a chance to reflect and ask questions about the futures/foresight field and to share ideas with colleagues.

You will leave the workshop with tools and ideas for applying futures thinking, as well as a deeper understanding of the benefits and challenges of taking a futures informed approach to current challenges.

Who this is for

👤 This learning experience has been designed for people early in their futures literacy journey. Many participants will have significant experience in other fields but may not have been exposed to specific futures practices.

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Speaker bio

Dr Cheryl Doig is a leadership futurist, weaver and connector, often known as the #futuresaunty. Cheryl has a passion for growing futures literacy and strategic foresight through her company, Think Beyond. She is the founder of the Ōtautahi Futures Collective, Aotearoa Futures and Oceania Futures.

In 2017 Cheryl was a finalist in the NZ Westpac Women of Influence Awards, in the Innovation and Science category. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury, a professional member of the Association for Professional Futurists and a reviewer for the Journal of Future Studies.

Cheryl has over 30 year’s business and governance experience in education, social impact and health. She is founding trustee of Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Christchurch, a trust focused on growing a local learning ecosystem with a focus on equity, access and innovation. For more information visit www.thinkbeyond.co.nz

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Tickets

In addition to general admission for waged and unwaged participants we are offering a buy one gift one option. Please take this option if:

a) you would like the Specuative Futures team to gift a ticket to a community based organisation, or

b) you would like to gift the ticket to a friend/colleague that might not otherwise think to attend (previous events have seen these tickets go to a local librarian, secondary school students, grandparents, a neighbour - use your imagination)!

Reach out to us directly after registering and let us know: auckland.speculativefutures@gmail.com

Join us for the first meet-up of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Speculative Futures Chapter - a vibrant community of people like you - futures thinkers, creators, and innovators, each contributing their unique perspectives and insights.

Our gathering is strategically timed as we have just celebrated the Matariki the dawning of the Māori new year and serves as a symbolic anchor, enabling us to focus on the future aspirations we're striving for.

In this first meetup, we aim to gain a collective understanding of our current reality, recognising its strengths and opportunities for improvement. Together we will co-create a set of values and principles that will guide our vision, mission, and activities and share our early thinking and plans for this community. This is your opportunity to bring your intellect, your heart, and your passion for driving meaningful change, together.

By RSVPing and attending, you'll play a key role in shaping our vision and mission.

Are you in?