Collaborative Foresight: How to Game the Future (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/collaborative-foresight

You’ll never have a complete picture of what's possible in the future if you look at it from just one point of view. The best way to expand your vision? Engage as many people as you can, and “game out” the possibilities together. In this course, you’ll learn how to use collaborative gaming techniques to go beyond your own thinking and see many, many different sides of the same future. Over the past decade, the Institute for the Future has pioneered new methods in “massively-multiplayer foresig

Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/forecasting-skills

For many people, the future comes as a surprise – or even a shock. But with strong forecasting skills, YOU can avoid future shock. You can adapt faster, and become better prepared to benefit from change. In this course, you’ll build your future forecasting skills. You'll learn how to turn groups of "signals" (clues about the future) and "drivers" (global forces that influence the direction of change) into compelling future forecasts. Forecasts help you discover new possibilities and opportuniti

Futures Thinking (CourseraSpecs)

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/futures-thinking

Offered by Institute for the Future. Ready Yourself for a Changing World. Learn the skills and mindsets of the world’s top futurists, so you ...

Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/life-after-covid-19-get-ready-for-our-post-pandemic-future

The pandemic will create long-lasting and surprising ripple effects, even after vaccines are widely available. Are you ready for what's next? This course will give you a clear forecast of the challenges and opportunities you’re most likely to encounter over the next 3-5 years, as a direct result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. - Find out what risks still lie ahead - Make a plan for resilience - Play future forecasting games to stretch your imagination about what's possible - Build your post

Ready, Set, Future! Introduction to Futures Thinking (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-futures-thinking

Do you want to think about the future with more creativity and optimism? Do you want to see what’s coming faster, so you can be better prepared for disruptions and more in control of your future? Do you want to get better at changing what’s possible today – in your company, your industry, your community, and in your own life? This course will introduce you to the practice of futures thinking, as developed and applied for the past 50 years by the Institute for the Future, a Silicon-Valley-based

Simulation Skills: This is Your Brain on the Future (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/simulation-skills

Do you want to learn how to simulate the future more creatively and more effectively? This course is for you. Humans are the only living creatures with the ability to think about and make plans for the long- term future. Even so, our brains don’t always make it easy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered a number of neurological “road blocks” to effective futures thinking. These glitches in the brain make it harder for us to accurately predict how we’ll feel and what we’re likely to

Urgent Optimism: How to Turn Foresight into Action (Coursera)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/urgent-optimism

When you get better at thinking about the future, you get better at changing the future. This course will help you take all of the foresight skills you’ve developed so far and apply them to making real positive change in your life, in your work, and in the world around you. You’ll learn how to create and share “preferred futures”, which are highly persuasive, compelling visions of the changes you want to make real. You’ll use your preferred future to identify obstacles, recruit allies, collect