FuturePod

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.