Deliverables

Futures Literacy Laboratories are carefully designed and facilitated workshops that help participants surface assumptions, explore alternative futures, and generate new insights for the present.

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Typical elements include:

   •    framing the topic and time horizon
   •    stakeholder interviews and briefing
   •    participant selection and preparation
   •    design of the lab process
   •    facilitation of the lab
   •    harvesting of insights
   •    synthesis report and next steps

Foresight workshops are shorter interventions designed to explore change, develop scenarios, and support strategic conversations.

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They can take different forms, including:

   •    scenario sprints
   •    futures games
   •    Three Horizons workshops
   •    Causal Layered Analysis
   •    Futures Wheel
   •    systems mapping and causal loop work

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These formats are useful as standalone interventions or as entry points into a broader foresight practice.
 

For organisations that want a more lasting impact, Near & Next can help embed foresight and futures literacy into leadership, strategy, and organisational routines.

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This may include:

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• identifying where futures thinking adds most value

• defining priority themes and questions

• training teams and leaders

• designing an ongoing foresight agenda

• building feedback and learning loops

• defining desired outcomes and evaluation criteria
   

Near & Next also produces research-based reports on future-facing topics.

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These reports can help organisations:

   •    understand emerging change
   •    clarify strategic implications
   •    support planning and decision-making
   •    keep important topics under review over time

Training formats introduce the foundations, uses, and benefits of foresight and futures literacy.

 

Sessions can be tailored to different audiences, including leadership teams, strategy functions, public servants, educators, and mixed groups.

A futurist-in-residence format offers a more immersive way to build futures capacity.

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Over a defined period, a futurist works alongside your organisation to help teams and leaders integrate foresight into real decisions, workflows, and conversations.