VIDEO COURSE
Narrative Futures Design
WHY THIS COURSE IS POWERFULLY CREATIVE & HOW TO GET IT FOR YOURSELF
Have you ever gotten stuck in the “problem scope” phase of a design-thinking process with yourself or your team? Have you ever given up on a future dream or desired strategy because you couldn’t find a way to make it seem possible enough to get started? Have you ever watched as people curl and deflate, offering increasingly narrowed thinking as the problem begins to loom large, leading to disengagement and “brainstorm block”? Sometimes, starting a design process from the problem can make solutions feel too far away to imagine or reach, let alone implement. That’s where Narrative Futures Design comes in.
Narrative Futures tools allow us to do backwards design, working from “inside a future” in which the problem is already solved! In this course, we’ll learn and practice tools for outside-the-box innovation and backwards futures-design, using story, creative practices, somatic tools, and design-thinking to expand the futures we design and create. Plus, you’ll learn skills for sharing these practices with your team or group. Create beyond apparent contradictions and perceived scarcity. Uncover the stories you’re enacting now, and the ones you actually want to embody, whether as an individual, a team, or an organization. Connect with your team and bring their dreams and offerings into the group ecosystem, and access wild and unexpected innovation, so that you can make the futures you imagine possible starting with actions and designs today.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Utilize and facilitate “backwards design” skills to support projects and teams
Gain tools to promote emergent thinking and collaboration (rather than emergency/scarcity thinking)
Access wide and unexpected futures innovation frames
Develop creative and pragmatic practices to vision, design, and implement desired futures
Build neurological somatic practices for expanding beyond barriers and roadblocks that can appear in forwards design
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
Future visionaries, coaches, trainers, facilitators, project managers, people systems designers, leaders of teams, executive leaders at progressive organizations and companies with an interest in expanding your group’s possibilities beyond business-as-usual.
WHAT YOU GET - IN DETAIL!
COURSE OVERVIEW
What is Narrative Futures Design & Why Do It? - Section 1 Video Titles
Introduction to the Course
Who I Am & Why I Love Narrative Futures Design
What, Why, When
Needs & Strategies - Section 2 Video Titles
Needs & Strategies - Why & How to Tell the Difference
Needs & Values Mapping Tool
Strategy Brainstorm
Section Review of Needs & Strategies
Narrative Practices - Section 3 Video Titles
Narrative Practices - Section Intro
Creative Prompt “In the Next World…”
“I woke up in the future…” Creative Prompt
Guided Visualization
Immersive Scene Description
Collaging the Future
Connect Narrative Practices to Forward Design in your Workplace
Core Stories - Section 4 Video Titles
Core Stories Introduction
Identifying Core Stories
Treasure Hunt for Hidden Stories
Find the Mismatch - Mission-Practice Misalignment
Framing a Story for the Future
The Future is Now - Prefiguration & Backwards Pathways - Section 5 Video Titles
Intro to Prefigurative Practice Prototypes
Backwards Pathway Design
Closing - Check on Your Stories
PLUS! Downloadable PDF worksheets and resources for each section
Pricing: This course costs $248
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