Institute For The Future

Learn how to anticipate the future — and how to act on it.

The Foresight Training is an immersive learning experience created for individuals, teams, and organizations committed to developing and expanding their capacity for foresight.

"The Foresight Training equipped me with tools and resources I needed to help my team engage with clients and partners to advance our work in an evocative and practical way. IFTF staff was exemplary throughout, and connecting with thought leaders in other organizations was of tremendous significance. It was one of the best three-day professional investments I’ve had in a long time.”
                                                              —Senior Manager, Learning Innovation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

About IFTF's Foresight Trainings

IFTF’s Foresight Training program leverages more than 50 years of proven ability
to support participants in developing the skills and capacity for foresight. It
teaches the necessary tools and techniques to intuit change, communicate vision,
build capacity, and lead organizations confidently into the future.

The Foresight Training teaches participants

• Identify and analyze signals and drivers of change
• Filter information to determine its usefulness
• Build a “foresight mindset” to foresee what the future may hold
• Empower their organization with strategic foresight
• Transform urgent foresight into actionable insights

Foresight Practitioner Training Calendar:

• August 20-22, 2019, Helsinki, Finland {Sold-out}
  
• Sept 24-26, 2019, Palo Alto, CA {Sold-out}
• November 5-7, 2019, Singapore
• December 3-5, 2019, Palo Alto, CA

New! Design Futures Training:

• December 10-11, 2019, Palo Alto, CA

Space is limited—early booking recommended.

Available as one-, two-, or three-day programs, IFTF’s Foresight Training is a hands-on, workshop-style course for individuals, teams, and organizations. Participants have the opportunity to develop their own future-making experiments, which lead to actionable insights; and finish the course as a certified IFTF Foresight Practitioner armed with cutting-edge tools, proven strategies, and the confidence to navigate turbulent times.

As preparation, those enrolled complete a series of exercises on the theory and practice of fundamental futures-thinking processes; they are also introduced to IFTF’s Foresight-Insight-Action framework. During the training, experiential activities bring the process to life as participants apply these new skills to their own organizational challenges.

More information is available in our Foresight Training for Individuals Brochure.

• Regular Registration: $6,500 ($4,500 for government or non-profit)
• Early-bird Registration: Save up to $500 by registering early (limited availability)

For questions, registration, or to request addition to the waitlist:
Neela Lazkani | nlazkani@iftf.org

Interested in a Customized Foresight Training?

The Foresight Training can be customized for any size or sector, providing a practical immersion into the skills, methodologies, and processes that reveal what futures are possible, how to shape them, and how to use them to seize new opportunities. Please download the Custom Foresight Training brochure.

For more information, contact 
Lyn Jeffery | ljeffery@iftf.org 

IFTF Foresight Toolkit + Templates Usage

As a research and educational organization, Institute for the Future’s mission is to build more foresight capacity in the world by providing tools and resources to help people better anticipate the future to make decisions in the present. To this end the IFTF Foresight Studio Toolkit and Templates are held under an IFTF copyright and licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). If you are a certified IFTF Foresight Practitioner, we encourage the reproduction and use of these tools within your organization(s) and in your own practice of foresight education for any non-commercial, attribution-only, non-derivative use.