APEC Center for Technology Foresight -Training Workshop, September 2005

"Creating Futures with a Difference"
Limited ONLY to 30 participants!
Special Offers
21-23 September 2005
Bangkok, Thailand

http://www.apecforesight.org
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Fax Registration Form to (66 2) 644 8191 (.doc)
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APEC Center for Technology Foresight, under the Industrial Science and Technology Working Group of APEC, proudly presents an international foresight training workshop on “Creating Futures with a Difference”. The workshop will be led by Professor Sohail Inayatullah.

Professor Sohail Inayatullah
Tamkang University, Taiwan and University of the Sunshine Coast Australia and Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Challenging traditional strategic planning and policymaking, this two and a half day workshop will explore methods and tools from the emerging discipline of Futures Studies.

To create novel and innovative futures, we must first contest the official future – the taken for granted often colonized future. The future is thus not “out there” but complicit in our current worldviews and actions. Using new methods and tools developed by Sohail Inayatullah and colleagues (Richard Slaughter, Graham Molitor, Tony Stevenson, Robert Burke, Ivana Milojevic and others) alternative futures will be explored and created.

This course is designed for CEOs, senior managers, policymakers in the business, Government and NGO community. Youth representatives are welcome. It is designed for those who believe that the future can be different.

• Map the future using the futures triangle
• Anticipate the future using the Molitor S-curve
• Lengthen the future through macrohistory and macrofutures
• Deepen the future using Causal Layered Analysis and Four Quadrant Integral Mapping
• Create alternative futures through the Multi-scenario method
• Transform the future through visioning, backcasting and anticipatory action learning

• The workshop will be interactive with time for action learning projects.
• Consulting advice on particular foresight projects will be provided.

Special offers: A copy of Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation will be available at discounted prices; USD10 for early registration, USD15 if purchase at the commencement of the course (the normal price is USD30). Handouts on the main methods will be provided to all participants.

Fee: US$400.-net (fee includes 2-day and an evening trainings, materials, lunches, snack breaks)

- Expectations
- Participant Projects
- Basic conceptual framework – how to question the future and the MADCT approach.

08:00-09:00 - Registration
09:00-09:15 - Opening Remarks
09:15-09:30 - Introduction to APEC Center for Technology Foresight by Executive Director of APEC CTF
09:30-10:15 - Mapping the future • The futures triangle – pulls, pushes and weights

10:30-12:00 - Anticipating the future • The Molitor method – emerging issues analysis
12:00-13:00 - Lunch

15:00-16:00 - Deepening the Future • Causal Layered Analysis • The Wilber and Slaughter Integral model

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Language: Thai is the national and official language while English is widely spoken and understood in major cities, particularly in Bangkok and in business circles.

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