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Envisioning

Beyond Intractability.org - Envisioning

This website is home to an essay on Envisioning and weblinks to related sites.

Creating Preferred Futures (CPF)

CPF is a web-based learning environment with the objective of empowering young people to be pro-active in creating a more positive future for themselves and their communities.

Future Search: The Method & The Network

Future search is a planning meeting that helps people transform their capability for action.

Leading Futurists: Helping Organizations Build a Foresight Culture

Leading Futurists helps people who want to anticipate and detect early signals of change so that their organizations can quickly adapt and maintain their competitive success into the future. Leading Futurists can turn its tools of foresight, scenario building, and futures insight to your advantage.

New Zealand Futures Trust: Promoting Futures Thinking

The New Zealand Futures Trust is an independent non-profit organisation whose members aim to identify developments and changes affecting the lives and aspirations of New Zealanders, and to promote debate about possible futures.

Oxfam – Cool Planet for Teachers – Lesson Plan: The Futures Tree

The aim of this lesson plan is to help children to consider a simple environmental issue and to encourage children to think about their own wishes for the future.

The Futures Foundation

The Futures Foundation promotes greater interest in, and understanding of, the future. Future Studies provides tools and perspectives to assist individuals and businesses today in preparing a more ideal tomorrow. The Foundation utilizes this discipline in planning and strategy.

UK Government Improvement and Development Agency (I&DeA) Knowledge: Futures Thinking

IDeA Knowledge delivers forward-thinking and in-depth content on improvement issues, shares examples of good practice from councils across England and Wales, and provides information on the IDeA's range of tools and services. IDeA Knowledge aims to stimulate and support self-sustaining improvement within local government.

University of Arizona – Tutorial 2: Building Scenarios

Scenarios are a way of developing alternative futures based on different combinations of assumptions, facts and trends, and area where more understanding is needed for your particular scenario project. They are called "scenarios" because they are like "scenes" in the theater - a series of differing views or presentations of the same general topic. Once you see several scenarios at the same time, you better understand your options or possibilities.

Systemic Thinking

WWF and education in Scotland

WWF Scotland sees education as a vital component of its work. If we are to create a Scottish society that lives harmoniously with our planet, then we must learn to change our unsustainable attitudes and behaviour.

The Change Management Toolbook: Systemic Thinking

In this Toolbook for Change Management, we will offer you a broad range of tools, methods and strategies which you can apply during different stages of personal, team and organizational development, in training, facilitation and consulting.

Critical Thinking

John Huckle – Educating for Sustainability

I seek to combine critical social theories of the environment and education with critical pedagogy. The resulting forms of education are designed to empower citizens so that they are more able to realize a global democracy that gives full expression to environmental and ecological citizenship.

Longview Community College: Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project

The Longview Community College provides resources in Critical Thinking that are divided between the core resources and discipline-specific resources.

The Critical Thinking Community: Defining Critical Thinking

The work of the Foundation is to integrate the Center's research and theoretical developments, and to create events and resources designed to help educators improve their instruction. The Foundation's materials include books, micro-publications, and videos.

Australian Government Department of the Environment Heritage

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