2. Three Conversation Dimensions

These three dimensions underpin the design of the Futures Conversations Framework.

These three dimensions underpin the design of the Futures Conversations Framework.

1. An Integral Frame

An integral approach to futures integrates people, culture, process and context. It brings the invisible and visible parts of the organisation together. It recognises that people create the future in their daily conversations, decisions and actions that are in turn shaped by their mindsets, assumptions and biases. This is the frame that helps us put the human back into becoming futures ready. I call it integrated thinking which is not a new term, but one that focuses us on the need to consider both the invisible and visible sides of organisations.

2. A Foresight Lens

A foresight lens enables us to escape the constraints of status-quo thinking and the present, to use our episodic foresight capacities to create and remember simulations of possible futures. Foresight allows us to locate ourselves in those futures, and depending on your temporal orientations and openness to experiences, you…