The Futures Workshop

A series of conversations with the world's leading futurists about how to use the tools they've created. thefuturesworkshop.substack.com

The Futures Workshop is a business podcast hosted by Victoria Mulligan, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Victoria Mulligan hosts The Futures Workshop, a business show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode Thirteen: Andrew Curry on Futures Landscapes

  Feb 15, 202551 minS0

  <p>Kia ora and welcome to episode thirteen of The Futures Workshop!</p><p>Most of the tools we’ve looked at so far rely on scenarios - imagined future scenes which we then use to work out the implications for us and our organisations.</p><p>But today’s guest Andrew Curry says scenarios aren’t always the best approach. It can be cognitively tricky to get groups to fully embrace a speculative future and make the leap to where they fit into it. Sometimes, says Andrew, it’s better to stay in what he calls the “thick present”, using a tool...

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  Episode Twelve: Riel Miller at the Dubai Future Forum

  Jan 19, 202547 minS0

  <p>Welcome back to the Dubai Future Forum podcast lounge, from which I’m delighted to share another special episode of The Futures Workshop.</p><p>For this episode I was joined by former Head of Foresight and Futures Literacy at UNESCO Riel Miller, who shared his reflections on the Forum before taking a deep dive into “futures literacy” - a concept with which he has become synonymous. We talk about the importance of futures literacy, what it is and is not, and how to create an effective literacy lab.</p><p>I hope you enjoy the conversation with Riel as muc...

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  Episode Eleven: Paul Saffo at the Dubai Future Forum

  Dec 11, 202434 minS0

  <p>This week, a special episode of The Futures Workshop: my conversation with Professor Paul Saffo, recorded in front of a live studio audience at the Dubai Future Forum in November 2024.</p><p>Also special is today’s topic. After ten episodes exploring different tools and how to use them, Paul challenges us to think about the proper place of tools in futures work. He says we should use them in the same way a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, rather than for illumination.</p><p>Paul is a deep thinker, a rock star in the futures world an...

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  Episode Ten: The Futures Triangle workshop

  Oct 20, 202413 minS0

  <p>This week we’re following up our conversation with Ivana Milojevic with an imagined workshop. We show you how you might use the Futures Triangle tool with a group - guiding them to identify the pull, push and weight forces that affect the way we work towards a preferred future. We then look at how those forces might interact with each other - particularly where the tensions or obstructions might lie. Then we conclude with some final insights and briefly talk about how to turn those insights into practical next steps for action. </p><p>You’ll benefit from list...

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  Episode Nine: Ivana Milojevic on the Futures Triangle

  Oct 5, 202450 minS0

  <p>Today we’re in conversation with Ivana Milojevic, another of the world’s leading voices in the area of futures. Ivana has worked extensively around the globe, and shares some of her most memorable experiences in a wide ranging discussion, with a focus on the Futures Triangle tool.</p><p>In this interview Ivana explains how by understanding three invisible forces - the weight of the past, the push of the present and pull of the future - we can deepen our understanding of an issue, as well as spot particular challenges, and opportunities to make progress. </p><p>Alon...

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