Master Courses

These professional-development courses are highly focused day-long seminars, classes, and workshops, which are offered to participants for an additional fee just prior to the annual meeting.

Why take a master course?

C-1 Introduction to Futures Studies:

Few have taken a course, much less earned a degree, on how to think about and deal with the future. This preconference course fills that gap.-- Dr. Peter C. Bishop is associate professor of human sciences, and chair, Studies of the Future Graduate program, at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.

C-2 Foresight Educators Boot Camp:

This unique 1-day course will give you an edge to open doors and deliver high quality sessions in both futures thinking and action.--Jay Gary is an assistant professor, School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, and program director of the Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight at Regent University.

C-3 Wiser Futures: Using Futures Tools to Better Understand and Create the Future:

This popular workshop introduces the Institute for Alternative Futures’ approaches to using futures techniques in communities, organizations, governments, and corporations.--Dr. Clem Bezold is chairman, senior futurist, and founder of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and its for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA)

C-4 Society 3.0: Technology Transformations in Society, Work, and Higher Education:

COURSE CANCELED

C-5 The Human Dynamics of Creation to Effect Change:

Learn tools and tips for overcoming barriers, anticipating opportunities, and unleashing new pathways to knowledge, leveraging research honoring the human spirit and creative problem solving.--Megan Mitchell, program director for the Centre of Excellence in Applied Innovation at Schulich, York University and Marci Segal is president of creativityland Inc., Toronto.

C-6 Identifying and Exploring Security’s Futures and What Can Be Done to Prepare:

Learn how strategic foresight can shed light on and promote understanding of the storm of challenges and opportunities provoked by the new security environment (national defense and public safety).--Dr. David Harries, associate executive director of Foresight Canada

C-7 An Insider’s Guide to Foresight Consulting: A Case Study Approach:

Using a case-study approach, this course will illustrate the range of techniques and contexts in which using the future can make a difference for what people see and do in the present.--Dr. Riel Miller, founder of the Xperidox consultancy and Dr. Andy Hines, lecturer and executive-in-residence at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Futures Studies.

C-8 Futurist Writers' Workshop:

Two editors of The Futurist magazine offer insights on how to craft a story about the future for different markets, focusing on both the message and the medium.--Cynthia Wagner, editor of The Futurist magazine and Patrick Tucker, deputy editor of The Futurist magazine and director of communications for the World Future Society

C-9 Scenario Planning: How to Build and Use Scenarios:

COURSE CANCELED

C-10 Weak Signals and Minitrends: Foundations for Truly Innovative Organizations:

This master course provides guidance for identifying weak signals and minitrends, for analyzing their value, and for taking full advantage of attractive opportunities.--John Vanston, chairman, Technology Futures, Inc. and Rick Smyre, president of the Center for Communities of the Future, is an internationally recognized futurist and originator of the concepts of “Master Capacity Builder, Creative Molecular Economy and Future Forward Workforce.

Register for WorldFuture 2012 and Master Courses

Add Courses, Luncheons, or Other Activities to a Previous Registration