How to Future: Foresight & Innovation
A workshop on playfully expanding the horizon of possibility
Description
Teams are often trapped in the present. This workshop introduces foresight as a practice, not prediction but preparation, imagination, and strategic awareness. It invites teams to think beyond immediate constraints and rehearse multiple futures.
Outline
Part 1: Horizon scanning Signals, trends, weak signals
Part 2: Scenario building Constructing plausible futures
Part 3: Speculative prompts Playful interventions to stretch thinking
Part 4: Backcasting Working backward from a future state
Outputs
2 to 3 future scenarios
A set of signals to monitor
Strategic questions for decision-making
About Common Field Trainings
Our workshops are designed to be flexible, experiential, and grounded in real work. Each session combines structured inputs with hands-on exercises, peer exchange, and live application to your team’s current challenges. Participants do much more than just learn concepts, they play with them, adapt them, and leave with artifacts, frameworks, and practices they can carry forward.
Formats range from short workshops to multi-day learning intensives, and can be tailored to your context, team size, and strategic priorities. Sessions are social by design, creating space for dialogue, shared sensemaking, and collective insight.
If you’re exploring how to strengthen thinking, communication, and learning across your organization, we’d be glad to talk.