Have you ever wanted to package what you’ve learned about the future and use it as a professional course or student curriculum? Would you be ready if the opportunity came knocking to serve as an adjunct professor to teach futures studies at the community college or graduate level? Can you see yourself launching a “Futures Institute” that offers foresight training for your school, community, or organization?
The need and opportunity for leadership training in strategic foresight has never been greater in public service or private enterprise. This unique one-day course will give you an edge to open doors and deliver high-quality sessions in both futures thinking and action. It will review both existing resources and share best practices on how to create lesson plans, short courses, and entire degree curricula. Join the new vanguard of futurists who are leveraging what they know to help adults get future-ready.
Who should attend: Consulting futurists, college educators, corporate trainers, community planners, and administrators, or anyone who has something to give as a foresight educator and wants to take it to a higher level.
What you’ll learn: How to:
(1) assess your own personal, professional, and academic assets as a futures educator;
(2) relate futures topics to real-world competencies that your audience needs for professional and personal development;
(3) identify training opportunities that futurists can develop within schools, colleges, or companies;
(4) create practical foresight exercises, workshops and courses;
(5) engage in just-in-time learning when asked to create face-to-face courses or online curriculum;
(6) market the importance of foresight education to academic and organizational leaders; and
(7) find foresight educators who can mentor you.
How this new knowledge can be applied: Participants will leave with hand-on skills to develop custom foresight courses, curricula, and training. They will be able to present foresight education to key decision makers as a vital skill set for today’s students and leaders.
Jay E. Gary, assistant professor, School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, and program director of the Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight at Regent University; member, Association of Professional Futurists, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Frank Spencer, principal, KedgeForward; lead instructor and coordinator, “The Futures Institute: Shaping Tomorrow Now,” Duke University Talent Identification Program Institutes; member, World Futures Studies Federation; Savannah, Georgia
Friday, July 8, 2011
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
$179 members/$229 nonmembers
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