Welcome to the Personal Futures Network! | Methods
for learning about the future have been available and in use by businesses for decades, but the process has simply been too
complex for most individuals. The Personal Futures Network introduces some new, easily understood approaches that will
help you to think like a futurist and learn about your personal futures. Think
like a futurist? What does that really mean, think like a futurist? Well, each futurist may have some different thoughts,
but generally futurists think about longer term futures, usually 10 or more years ahead. Futurists believe that the future
is not predetermined, but that several futures are possible. If several futures are possible, then one of those futures may
be better than the others, or a "preferred" future. Very important; futurists believe that individuals or groups
can take actions in the present that will help determine the future. That
brief paragraph helps explain why most futurists don't make predictions about the future, but rather suggest multiple possible
futures, often in the form of "scenarios" or stories about the future. The next page, Personal Futures offers a brief outline showing
how to use futures methods to explore and prepare for YOUR future in three steps: - Understand your life
- Explore
plausible futures (personal scenarios)
- Plan
to achieve the future you want (personal strategic planning)
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Pages on this web site - The PERSONAL FUTURES
page describes the overall process of exploring your own future, including the three key steps: Personal Research, Creating
Personal Scenarios and Developing a Strategic Plan that will lead you to the future you have chosen.
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LIFE STAGES page is the first step in understanding the rest of your life and the lives of your family members. Here you will
develop images of your future.
- The PERSONAL DOMAINS page describes and explains the six primary driving forces
in your life. Here you will learn how each of these forces will affect your future.
- The LIFE
EVENTS page discusses events that will probably occur in your life that can, in many cases be anticipated. This section helps
you to understand the different kinds of life events and which events you should prepare for.
- The FOUR SCENARIOS
page will show you how to create scenarios and stories about your futures. With the information from your personal framework
you will construct four scenarios that describe your plausible (including one about wild cards) futures.
- The STRATEGIC PLAN page is where you will create a vision of your future, then develop plans and strategies to achieve
that future. Then you will create contingency plans, just in case a wild card pops up
- The AUTHOR
page explains the who, how and why relating to the creation and future of this site
- The DOWNLOADS page
offers the most recent version of the Personal Futures workbook as well as an Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded
to your computer. These downloads are free.
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BOOKS AND ARTICLES page lists some books and articles theat you may find interesting and helpful as you explore the future.
Links to web sites that relate to Personal Futures will also be on this page.
| Personal Learning Personal Futures offers three types of learning: These three types of
learning are important not only in your personal life, but also in your career. Explore this site, and see what you
think. |
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Coming September 1, 2010 It’s YOUR Future... Make It A Good One! This book is the "how and why" of Personal Futures.
Each chapter explores concepts and methods for exploring the future, then shows how to apply those methods
in your own life. Examples are provided, showing how to fill in worksheets in the workbook. Over 100 diagrams,
tables and examples are included. At the end, you should have a good understanding of futures concepts and methods; tools
that you can use for the rest of your life. The anticipated release date is September 1, when It's YOUR Future...
will be available in paperback and digital formats at most online bookstores and on this web site. If you want to pre-order the book for shipment
the first weekof September, click on the picture of the book above. I will sign books that are ordered from this web
site.
This site is about planning for your future. You will find a system that uses the same methods that futurists have
used for decades in business and government. This is not advice about how to run your life, but offers methods and tools
that will let you anticipate and plan for your future. The Personal Futures Workbook
is available as a free download. The workbook will lead you step-by-step through
the personal futuring process. Visit the "Downloads" page. The free download makes the Personal Futures
Workbook available to everyone everywhere at the same price, free. This version is in PDF, so you can fill in and
save the workbook and your information on your computer. Translations are available in Spanish anf german. See below.
(New/Nuevo) Un
taller de Futuros Personales Traduccion por Dra. Guillermina Baena Paz. En "Free Downloads."
Also new is a German language version of the workbook, Dein persönliches Arbeitsbuch für deine
Zukunft, ubersetzt von Mady Host und Cornelia Reinhold. This workbook is now available on the Free
Downloads page. .
Speaking about the future... Over the past several years, groups have contacted me and invited me to
speak to them about Personal Futures, and I have enjoyed each of those opportunities. As a result of those workshops
and presentations, I've developed images and materials to offer a professional presentation. Now I've been invited to join
with other futurists on Shaping Tomorrow to form Future Voices, a professional speakers' organization
for futurists. With that, I am now offering my services as a professional speaker. If you are interested in a speaker to talk at your school
or to your organization, contact me at verne@personalfutures.net.
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| Verne Wheelwright, Istanbul, November 2008 |
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