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

• Describe a preferred future
• Create future-oriented artifacts
• Build actionable roadmaps for change
• Organize communities to implement change