Living Foresight

Helping teams work on complex challenges.

Complex challenges can bring out the best in us: our curiosity, our creativity, our wisdom, our compassion.

But all too often the stress caused by the uncertainty and ambiguity of complex situations makes it hard to operate with the presence, wisdom, creativity and focus necessary to make the progress we want to make.

Living Foresight can help your team work effectively on your most important and complex strategic challenges.

Improving collaboration.

You can't solve your most important problems on your own, so you need to engage and collaborate with a range of stakeholders, but your different perspectives and priorities can make working together well a complex challenge all of it's own.

The solutions to your problems are not obvious or straightforward. There are no quick fixes. These are human problems, so beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviour and relationships all need to be considered as part of the solution.

Your understanding of the problem is always evolving. The impact of any ‘solutions’ or interventions can’t be predicted in advance – these problems require experimentation and learning to find ways forward.

Living Foresight can help your team collaborate with partners and stakeholders on difficult problems and complex strategic projects.

Practical support to engage with complexity.

Living Foresight can help your team engage with complex problems from beginning to end.

How you show up. Being present to do the best work possible in challenging circumstances, staying calm and focussed, setting and holding to our values and intentions, developing and applying hope and purpose.

How you work together. Building trust and safety in groups, having productive and purposeful conversations even when you don’t agree with each other, developing relationships that can keep people at the table when things get tough.

How you make sense of what's happening. Individual and collective sensemaking to notice and understand what’s happening and how things are changing, seeing patterns and making connections, developing a systemic understanding of your challenges.

How you set strategic intentions and directions. Creating wise strategy by identifying the future you want to work towards and the pathways to get you there, seeing the strategic opportunities to pursue and the risks that need to be managed, identifying indicators that will tell you whether you are on or off course.

How you take action. Moving forward in complexity by creating the conditions for solutions to emerge, experimenting and learning to find new and effective ways forward, monitoring and adapting as circumstances change.

Services.

Facilitating effective collaboration.

Building capacity to engage with complexity.

Design and facilitation of powerful, purposeful and inclusive conversations, workshops and collaborative processes that help you find new ways forward on your complex problems.

Building capacity to engage with complexity.

Training, coaching and support to build the skills and capabilities that individuals and teams need to take effective action in complex, ambiguous and dynamic situations.

Process consulting for complex challenges.

Building capacity to engage with complexity.

Process consulting for complex challenges.

Working alongside you to help you make progress on your complex strategic challenges, at whatever stage you are at. Including support with defining and understanding your challenges, developing wise strategy and taking adaptive action.

Foresight and futures thinking.

Building capacity to engage with complexity.

Process consulting for complex challenges.

Supporting teams and groups to engage with change and possibility, see and make sense of what's emerging, think about and prepare for multiple possible futures, and imagine and shape the futures you want to create.