Composting What No Longer Serves: Organizational Lessons for a Time of Reckoning

Composting What No Longer Serves: Organizational Lessons for a Time of Reckoning

In a moment of cultural rupture—where authoritarianism is rising, polarization deepens, and public trust frays—organizations across sectors are grappling with a hard truth: many of our strategies, structures, and assumptions no longer serve us. The world is changing, but the ways we work often aren’t keeping pace.

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Exciting News! Foundations of Systems Sensing: An Exploratory Guide to the Sensing Journey Method is here!
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Exciting News! Foundations of Systems Sensing: An Exploratory Guide to the Sensing Journey Method is here!

In a world of deep uncertainty, how do we move beyond reaction and into attunement, deep listening, and embodied awareness? The Sensing Journey method, explored in this book, is a powerful approach to making sense of hidden patterns, cultivating trust, and transforming the way we see and shift systems from within.

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A Call to Action: Building a Public Interest Futures Brigade

A Call to Action: Building a Public Interest Futures Brigade

When it comes to futures thinking — the ability to anticipate, imagine, and shape long-term possibilities — there is no public interest pathway. Foresight careers are still largely confined to corporate strategy departments, government agencies, public policy think tanks, management consulting firms, and military strategy departments. Meanwhile, communities on the frontlines of social, economic, and environmental change are left reacting to futures they did not design.

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Beyond Fairness: Seeding New Possibilities for Our Future

Beyond Fairness: Seeding New Possibilities for Our Future

…when we talk about “fairness,” we might unintentionally limit our thinking to a transactional model—balancing scales, distributing harm, and managing resources. Fairness, as a frame, feels safe. But it’s also static. It doesn’t invite us to question the very systems that created the inequities we’re trying to address.


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What the US Foresight Office Can Learn from the US Department of Arts and Culture – Part 2

What the US Foresight Office Can Learn from the US Department of Arts and Culture – Part 2

In our first exploration of the lessons the U.S. Foresight Office (FOF) can learn from the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC), we touched on the power of imagination, the importance of a people-centered approach, and the integration of arts and culture in creating a more futures-focused world. These elements are crucial, but as we delve deeper into the practices of the USDAC, we uncover even more profound insights that can help to inform the potential U.S. Federal Office of Foresight.

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