Using a post-normal lens, Shermon emphasized that foresight could provide a platform for people, communities, and organizations to explore through a collective intelligence process multiple and diverse possibilities and risks i.e. worse, weird, preferable, and emergent futures.

Futures thinking is not about crystal ball gazing or prophesizing to predict the future but rather it is a transdisciplinary or meta-approach to studying possible, probable, and preferable futures. Futures thinking is a rational, creative, reflective, and contemplative process of engaging citizens to be aware of and question their ways of knowing the future to create contingencies, alternatives, and strategies to

REGISTER FOR FREE to join virtually the GLOBAL FORESIGHT SUMMIT from April 9-11, 2020 Shermon Cruz, Chief Futurist, and Director, Center for Engaged Foresight will be speaking as one of the featured futurist speakers to share his thoughts and ideas on embedding risk and resilience thinking in futures thinking workshops at THE GREAT PAUSE GLOBAL FORESIGHT SUMMIT. This summit is the biggest open