23+25 September 2026 | 7 hours of live & online training | From €349
Futures Literacy Training: Experience, understand, and start designing your own (live and online)
An interactive, learning-by-doing programme for facilitators, practitioners, and others who want to go deeper into futures literacy: what it is, why it matters, and how to start using it in their own work.
Dates:
- 23 September 2026
10h30-12h00 and 13h00-14h30 (CET - Berlin/Vienna) - 25 September 2026
10h30-12h00 and 13h00-16h00 (CET - Berlin/Vienna)
Investment:
- €349-€499
Why this training?
If you keep hearing about futures literacy and want to understand what it actually involves, AND whether it might be useful for you, this course gives you a grounded, hands-on introduction, using a Futures Literacy Lab (an approach developed by UNESCO) as the starting point.
You may have:
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Heard about futures literacy and wondered what it actually means in practice
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Participated in a Futures Literacy Lab and wondered how it was designed
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Wanted to bring futures thinking into your work but weren't sure where to start
- Been curious about how FL might apply to your own context — whether that's facilitation, teaching, consulting, or something else entirely
This course will help you answer these questions and get creative about what futures literacy might mean for you and your work.
What this course is (and what it isn't)
The Futures Literacy Lab is a structured format for exploring how we use the future and why it matters. In this course, you'll experience one, understand how it works, and learn how to run one yourself.
But the Futures Literacy Lab as an approach is a starting point, not the destination.
In this training, you'll also encounter the many different ways futures literacy shows up in practice, and have time to think about what form it might take in your own work.
By the end, you'll have a concrete tool you can use (the FLL), the raw ingredients to develop your own ideas, and enough grounding in FL to know where to go next.
How the training is structured
This is a live, cohort-based online training across two half-days, with five sessions in total.
During the sessions you will:
- Experience — Participate in a Futures Literacy Lab
- Understand — What futures literacy is, why it matters, and how it shows up in the wild
- Learn to design — Behind the scenes of how a Futures Literacy Lab works
- Apply — Time to develop your own ideas (with support)
- Present and get feedback — Share your thinking with the group
- Commit to next steps — Leave with a clear sense of where you're going
Day 1 runs from 10h30-12h00, with an hour for lunch, then 13h00-14h30*.
Day 2 is a bit longer: we'll end 16h00*. During the session, you'll have time to develop your own ideas about how you might apply futures literacy to your work. You'll then have time to present your ideas to the group and receive feedback and input.
*All hours are CET (Berlin/Vienna).
Throughout the training, you'll have time to play, ask questions, reflect, practice, and share your perspectives with others. And after each session, you're welcome to stay and talk through anything that's on your mind during the optional "open door chat" session.
You'll leave this training with:
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A personal experience of a Futures Literacy Lab
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A clear understanding of what futures literacy is and the many forms it takes
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The ability to design and run your own Futures Literacy Lab
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A developing idea for how futures literacy might work in your own context
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Feedback from peers on your thinking
- Access to all materials, tools, templates, and resources used in the sessions
Who is this for? What is the format? And how much does it cost?
This course is for you if you're a:
- facilitator wanting to expand your practice
- change maker interested in how to incorporate futures literacy as a tool to provoke thinking and action
- futures or foresight practitioner interested in FL specifically
- teacher, consultant, or practitioner who works with groups and wants new ways to engage with the future
- futures-curious soul interested in exploring - just because!
What’s the format?
We run this over 4 x 90-minute sessions and 1 x 1-hour session online, over two days, with a long break for lunch on each day.
Why? Because we’ve found that full-day workshops online are simply too much. This multi-session format gives you space to do other work, time to reflect on what you’ve learned, and an opportunity to work on applying your learning to share with the group.
After each session, we also have an optional “open door chat” that you can join, so that you can talk through about anything that’s on your mind.
How much does it cost?
We offer sliding scale fees, as follows:
- Individual practitioners who are self-funding: €349 +VAT
- Voluntary sector organisations or those under €500,000 turnover: €399 +VAT
- All other organisations: €479 +VAT
We also offer two bursaries that cover 75% of the fees for students, low-income practitioners, and anyone else who feels they genuinely can't afford the full fees. Contact us to discuss →
Join waitlist
This course is currently full. If you'd like to be added to the waitlist, add your details to the form below and we'll let you know if any spaces become free.
Who leads this course?
Your trainer and guide for this course is Suzanne Whitby.
Suzanne is an experiential futures practitioner, futures facilitator, and futures researcherFor the last 20+ years, she has been working at the intersection of science, society, sustainability, and storytelling in Europe and internationally. Suzanne has a soft spot for democratising futures and helping citizens shape futures, and is the creator Walk the Futures, a form of experiential, embodied, place-based futures literacy to support this work in urban spaces. She was trained in the Futures Literacy Lab method by a UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy in Higher Education, Loes Damhof, and Laureline Simon, Futures Literacy trainer and founder of One Resilient Earth.
You can learn more about Suzanne's futures work at her futures & foresight practice, Futures Fit, and about her intersecting projects at suzannewhitby.com.
