There’s a facilitation exercise called Blind Portraits that has some interesting lessons for futures facilitators. Two people sit facing each other. Each draws the other’s portrait for three minutes without looking at the paper and without lifting the pen. You have to...
#divitips Add page name to contact form Why might this be useful? To work out which page people were on when they submitted a page. add_filter(‘et_pb_module_shortcode_attributes’, ‘dbc_add_post_link_to_contact_form’, 10, 3); function...
The contribution of “childless cat ladies” to society The BBC’s post about Usha Vance defending her husband’s “childless cat ladies” remark has prompted me to put a few words to paper. In my world, today’s wicked problems are...
In her essay Important Questions to Ask Yourself, poet Jane Hirshfield tells a story about a man who travels far to ask a wise teacher a question. When he finally asks it, the teacher slaps him. The lesson, the disciples later explain, is simple and severe: never...
AI can be a powerful tool in futures and foresight work. It can scan vast amounts of information, surface patterns across domains, and generate plausible starting points for scenarios or speculative artifacts. Used well, it expands our field of vision and accelerates...
