by Suzanne Whitby | Mar 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
Good facilitation in futures work isn’t about adding polish. It changes what becomes possible. It shapes who feels able to contribute, how uncertainty is experienced, and whether imagination expands or contracts under pressure. It affects whether futures are...
by Suzanne Whitby | Feb 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
One of the most persistent misunderstandings about futures and foresight is that it’s about prediction. When facilitating futures and foresight workshops, I still hear versions of this regularly: “So what do you think will happen?” or “Which future do you think is...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
In futures and foresight workshops, participants often talk about THE future. Practitioners tend to insist on futures, plural. At first glance, that can sound like jargon. in fact, I sometimes get a lot of push-back: “FutureS isn’t grammatically...
by Suzanne Whitby | Dec 30, 2021 | Notebook, To export
I am privileged to be able to spend my days working with scientists who want to learn how to turn their academic findings into information that the “general public” can understand and hopefully act upon. Many of the people I coach and train are natural scientists who...
