When I am facilitating futures, the first 20 minutes of a session tells me how the session might go without careful facilitation. The opening exercises and activities aren’t simply ice-breakers, as many participants think, but an opportunity for me to observe the...
Most groups don’t get stuck because they lack ideas. They get stuck because they hate the “fog”, that awkward middle space where nothing is clear yet. So what to do when the fog rolls in during a futures session? My approach is to make ambiguity a shared, normal phase...
Future-Proof Your Business: Innovating for Sustainability Discover why innovating for a sustainable future is essential for business success, benefiting both people and the planet. Learn how facilitated workshops, including futures thinking and design thinking, can...
In his book Questions Are the Answer, MIT professor Hal B. Gregersen argues that breakthrough thinking rarely comes from having better answers. It comes from asking better questions. Better questions are the kind he calls “catalytic questions”. These are...
