The Houston Foresight Program’s Alternative Perspectives class opens with a week on the nature of reality. Each week …
Intuition in Futures Work
We come to the week in Alternative Perspectives class where we see how far one’s embrace of alternative extends. We call …
Shifts in teaching the future
Teaching should not stand still of course, but it is part of an academic mission is to stay true to what is the core of …
Some thoughts on action learning
Action learning (and its family members) are an approach to solving complex problems that starts with the premise that …
The Future of Energy: A Theatrical Production
I recently watched a debate on Energy Independence. The characters were: Evil capitalist drilling guy Benevolent …
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Musings on links between Theory U and CLA
I was reviewing Otto Scharmer's "Leading from the Emerging Future" this weekend, prepping for Alternative Perspectives …
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Foresight methods and “overlap”
A point that has come up several time in Alternative Perspectives class this semester that foresight perspectives and …
Some thoughts on enterpreneurship
I am featured as one of ten entrepreneurs in a piece called Lighting the Way: 10 Successful Entrepreneurs Share Their …
Foresight and being right
We’ll avoid the whole “did you get the future right” discussion here. [See "how accurate are your forecasts?" if that’s …
Applying alternative foresight approaches
Building off last week’s post on foresight and intuition….and the great fun I’m having with our Alternative Perspectives …
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Alternative Perspectives on the Future
I'm pleased to be able to offer a new elective in our Futures Studies Master's program this fall called "Alternative …
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