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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

NK

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

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.

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By Lynda C

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Jan 29, 2021

Thoroughly enjoyed this well planned programme.

By AQUILINO G P I

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May 4, 2023

an eye opener, innovative and futuristic

By Anushna G

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Jun 28, 2021

It was amazing and very informative

By مريم ص ع ي ا

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Nov 29, 2020

its was very useful and easy to use

By Edward K

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Apr 13, 2020

Great course! Great Specialization!

By Fernando M C

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Feb 11, 2020

Now we have to take the challenge.

By Vladimir C P F

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Sep 4, 2025

Excelent total y usefull

By Jennylyn T

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Jun 12, 2025

Very interesting course

By Winston A W

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Sep 29, 2020

Excellent, thank you.

By DHIVYA M

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Aug 27, 2020

good ideas and skills

By James A

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Jan 14, 2020

I loved this course!

By ALI m A

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Mar 20, 2021

كانت الدوره ممتازة

By Karla M E M

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Jun 22, 2021

Excelente curso.

By Lynelle S

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Jan 2, 2025

great course!!!

By Rodrigo A R C

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Apr 23, 2021

muchas gracias

By Jordan R C Y

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Mar 24, 2023

full of ideas

By Keir J H

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Feb 2, 2023

Recommended!

By Voltaire D

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Mar 28, 2025

Insightful

By Robert P

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Oct 28, 2024

Very nice!

By Camila R M

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Feb 19, 2024

buen curso

By JOMERO C S

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Sep 2, 2023

EXCELLENT

By Iván R

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Jun 19, 2020

Great :)

By NELSON P C

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Nov 10, 2023

helpful

By Charles P

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Feb 22, 2021

Great

By AMAL R S A

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Aug 11, 2025

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