JC
5.0Reviewed Dec 4, 2020
Worth taking it. Applicable skills in other fields; transferrable soft skills in any job.
Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action
When you get better at thinking about the future, you get better at changing the future. This course will help you take all of the foresight skills you’ve developed so far and apply them to making real positive change in your life, in your work, and in the world around you. You’ll learn how to create and share “preferred futures”, which are highly persuasive, compelling visions of the changes you want to make real. You’ll use your preferred future to identify obstacles, recruit allies, collect resources, and plan action to make your vision real. You’ll also practice making “artifacts” from the future, which are creative representations of how everyday life might be different in the future. Artifacts can inspire others to join you in your quest to make a preferred future real. Leading futurists from the Institute for the Future will share with you their favorite future artifacts – and walk you through the entire creative process it took to make them. Every action we take today changes the future. This course will help you identify and take the actions that make the BIGGEST, most strategic impacts on the most urgent challenges you and society face. Many thanks to the Enlight Foundation and the Enlight Collaborative, which provided a grant to support the creation of this course.
Status: Planning
Status: Strategic Thinking
BeginnerCourse11 hours
Featured reviews
NK
5.0Reviewed May 9, 2020
Incredibly important class if you want to be a futurist or an entrepreneur, or even if you want to understand the future. 100% recommend this, you are not wasting time, rather you will be gaining it.
DM
5.0Reviewed Jun 20, 2021
Really enjoyed this capstone to the specialisation, brings the threads together and builds on the concepts throughout the courses. Some useful tools to help you put it into practice.
VD
5.0Reviewed Feb 5, 2021
This entire specialization is awesome! I enjoyed every minute! Thank you!
RG
4.0Reviewed Jun 30, 2020
It´s interesting, the professor gives useful tools, i think they could make it shorter, there's repeating parts that could be avoid, also I haven't got my diploma.
KG
4.0Reviewed May 8, 2020
Excellent case studies presented. The skills taught and tools used are relevant to bringing changes and identifying futures
YQ
5.0Reviewed Oct 21, 2020
Very good course that teaches different ways to spark actions from ideas
BB
5.0Reviewed Dec 25, 2020
Great Course by all standards. Prepares one for what is yet to come
ZC
5.0Reviewed Apr 10, 2020
I found it really useful and interesting. A lot of practical tools and tips for my current work
DW
5.0Reviewed Aug 26, 2022
Terrific - practical, interesting, well structured, and highly engaging. Definitely recommend!
AZ
5.0Reviewed Jul 18, 2021
This course is the best of the conclusions in this specialization. I would never regret taking this course
VZ
5.0Reviewed Oct 29, 2021
This course inspires to actually do things. It helped me to figure out what I want to do. I recommend it and all other courses of this specialization.