Institute for the Future

There is still space for you in IFTF Foresight Essentials' next live-online learning experience, next month! This course features 6 live teaching sessions, 2 supplemental presentations, and 2 days of offices hours with our expert foresight instructors.

- Learn with fellow foresight practitioners.
- Build a real Applied Futures Project.
- Receive an IFTF certificate completion.

Get future-ready with practical tools that build your resilience in an unpredictable world.

Learning begins on April 29, with earlier session times!
Register while there is still space!

IFTF Foresight Essentials Training Live-Online, for East Coast Times! Weekly Sessions: April 29 - June 3, 2026

IFTF’s mission is to build capacity to help create more resilient and equitable futures. We believe that the future must be participatory. Effective foresight is not a solitary academic exercise; it is an act of collective imagination, co-creation, and "urgent optimism" that empowers leaders to navigate the chaos and uncertainty of today.

That’s why IFTF’s Jake Dunagan traveled to Singapore last September to join 20+ futurists, experts, and leaders from around the world to co-create a set of provocative forecasts to map how current global fragmentation will reshape political systems, migration, currencies, energy, technology, and international relations over the next decade.

IFTF is thrilled to support this release, 10 Forecasts: From One Game to Many Games. It was produced by the 10F Consortium, with support by the Tingari Silverton Foundation, and is paired with some strategic positioning tools designed to help organizations respond to global attacks on civil society. By democratizing the tools of foresight, everyone can co-create a better future together. Read the forecasts here: https://www.10fconsortium.org/

Did you know that the first Institute for the Future Foresight Essentials training of 2026 begins on Feb 4? There are only a few seats left today! Register now: https://www.iftf.org/trainings/feb-2026-foresight-essentials/

Nov 6—three IFTF faculty members of Foresight Essentials demonstrate in real time how organic signal sharing is done when they each present three provocative signals of change then dive together into the different possibilities. Come see where their imaginations lead them! https://bit.ly/4mCc5cd

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Join IFTF for a 30 min, playful round of signal swapping where we’ll gather for a live discussion of signals and their implications.
https://bit.ly/4gtqype

Join us on Oct 9 at 9am PT, for an informal overview of the IFTF Foresight Essentials Offerings, so you can discover the best training to help you launch your foresight practice, or build a deeper understanding of how the tools can take your further on your action roadmap.
Register on zoom: https://bit.ly/4lsnWZy

IFTF is sharing the complete Uncanny Valley Anthology, a set of perspectives and foresight research produced for the IFTF Ten-Year Forecast 2024, with IFTF Vantage Partners. This doesn't just describe this future — it equips you to get through to the other side. Our 2024-2035 Forecast Perspectives offer strategic insights for leaders seeking to reimagine what's possible when familiar systems become unrecognizable.

https://bit.ly/46fjqJy

If you are not an IFTF Vantage partner, but you want to read the summaries, start here: AI: A Visit to the Fast Food Drive-Through of 2035 (https://bit.ly/4felanM )

The new book "Navigating the Age of Chaos," from IFTF Distinguished Fellows Bob Johansen and Jamais Cascio, along with United Way Worldwide CEO Angela Williams, introduces a new way of thinking about our future and how we can best engage with accelerating upheaval. It offers a lens through which we can identify the various ways in which our present and future chaos will manifest, allowing us to recognize and focus on possible paths forward through that chaos.
Leaders need better language to make sense out of a world that is changing in ways that the old terminology can no longer capture. The BANI framework—Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible—is that new language. It helps us describe what’s going on and explore better alternatives.
Pre-Order your copy today! https://bit.ly/4n5YfPO

Gather ’round the virtual campfire—don’t miss out!
Thursday, September 18 | 10:00am PDT
Stories aren’t just for kids — they expand minds and spark emotions. Join us for an hour of future-focused tales! Dr. Jane McGonigal, NY Times bestselling author and IFTF’s Director of Game Research, will lead this live online event. She and other IFTF staff will read from books and stories that fuel creative thinking about the future. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, science, classics, or the latest releases — you never know what’s in store at Storytime for Futurists.
https://bit.ly/4nazLVJ