Become a Futurist and Conflict Transformation (2 course package)

About Become a Futurist: Futures 101 with Sohail Inayatullah Course

In challenging times, thinking about the future can be overwhelming. Most of us can only imagine a future that we know; one that we’ve experienced before in real life or through movies. We assume the business-as-usual future will continue, but when we are disrupted, it is often too late, we lack the skills and means to effectively respond, or we don’t have a compelling vision of the future to move toward. We are unable to adapt or create.

But a futurist gets out ahead of the disruption. A futurist expands what is possible by exploring alternative and preferred futures in a creative and collaborative way. In essence, a futurist uses the future to change the present, to solve tomorrow’s problems today. These are the leadership skills you will learn in this course “Become a Futurist – Futures 101 with Sohail Inayatullah”.

Join me on a journey through the world of Futures Studies, where I will share nearly 40 years of my experience as a futurist with you. By the end of it, you will have an understanding of Futures Studies and be well on your way to becoming a futurist, and a more flexible and transformative leader.

About the Conflict Transformation Futures Course with Ivana Milojević

In this unique online course, Dr Ivana Milojević uses the future help you resolve inner and outer conflicts in your personal and professional life.

Conflict is everywhere. Even in the most loving of families, and in the most supportive of communities, there is conflict. People often avoid conflict because they are scared of it, and or do not have appropriate skills to address it. But conflict can be a wonderful opportunity to get to the next level of our relationships, to create positive social change, to improve our communities and societies, and that is all possible if we know how to deal with conflict constructively. Too often, we deal with conflict destructively, which means that instead of transforming it to create something new; a different and better future, we actually go towards the root of violence.

In this course, we will utilize the future as a resource to transform conflict in the present moment. We will learn how to minimize conflicts already occurring, how to prevent it from happening in the future, and how to repair relationships after it has taken place. Conflict can be an opportunity to create something novel, something different, and in that sense, we are going to look at where we want to go rather than where we have been. When we look at the past, we get one approach. But when we go into the future which is much more open, we are in a much better position to deal with the conflict in the present moment.

These are the dynamics we will discuss in this course, and we will utilize a number of Futures tools and methods for constructive conflict transformation.

Meet your instructors

Dr. Sohail Inayatullah

My name is Sohail and I have been a futurist for 40 years. I run workshops around the world working with organizations and institutions to create transformative strategies. I am the first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, a political scientist at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies); an Associate at Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne; and an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Faculty of Social Sciences and Business).

I have been lucky enough to author and co-edit twenty-four books, audio tapes and programs, including: Asia 2038: Ten Disruptions that Change Everything (2018); Transformation 2050: the Alternative Futures of Malaysian Universities (2018); What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight (winner of the most significant work for 2016, the Association of Professional Futurists); and, CLA 2.0; Transformative Research in Theory and Practice (2015).

Dr. Ivana Milojević

Dr. Ivana Milojević is a researcher, writer and educator with a trans-disciplinary professional background in sociology, education, gender, peace and futures studies and Director of Metafuture. She was awarded a PhD in Education in 2003 by the University of Queensland.

Ivana has previously held professorships at several universities including Tamkang University, Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Taipei; Association of Centres for Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies and Research, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

She has worked in public policy settings, giving speeches and providing advice and consultancies all over the world. Finally, she is a published author of academic books, scholarly book chapters and articles. Her books include: Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out. (2013); Who Is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Workbook for Peace Education, Interculturality and Gender Equity. Eduko: Novi Sad (2012) and more.