We trained young facilitators in nine countries to lead local workshops to:

• Explore and map values across a community
• Discuss current trends and their implications for the future 
• Build shared visions for national Green Deals, and brainstorm action plans.

In collaboration with the Institution for Public Sector Transformation at the University of Bern, as part of global policy discussions initiated by the OECD, we ran a workshop inviting citizens to ask, “What is it we could co-create to make trust across borders part of our digital future?”.

First, we worked with 70 YMCA leaders aged 15-65 to develop scenarios for the year 2044, the YMCA's 200th anniversary.

Then we held a workshop supporting 250 participants from seven global regions to journey into seven 2044 scenarios, explore local implications, identify future risks and opportunities, and brainstorm areas for action.

We led a two-day strategy workshop to support the Asia office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation to:

• Map values across the regional team

• Explore global trends and local implications

• Identify and prioritise challenges

• Develop a strategic vision

• Discuss short and long-term goals

• Brainstorm ways to engage stakeholders.

We facilitated a three-day Design Lab for six cross-sector teams from cities in Central and Eastern Europe, including:

• Identifying the narratives underlying urban problems, such as pollution and neglect of common spaces

• Exploring current trends and future possibilities to identify future challenges and opportunities

• Developing shared visions

• Brainstorming systemic solutions.

In partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit, we facilitated a two-day scenario planning exercise for UNICEF’s Iraq country office, exploring key factors shaping the lives of children and youth in Iraq in 2030.

To prepare, we ran interviews and focus groups with youth groups, schools, camps for internally displaced people, and the Ministries of Education and Labour.

We ran a series of workshops for primary and secondary school students, supporting them to share - both openly and anonymously - about their experience of school life, with a focus on equality, diversity and inclusion. Topics included:

• What works well, what needs to change

• What changes would improve their experience, and what the school can do

• How the school can empower them as change agents

We ran a masterclass for 30 finalists in the Springer Nature Innovation Tournament, supporting them to:

• Identify obstacles to innovation in their organisational culture

• Understand what lies beneath these obstacles, in terms of structures, viewpoints and fundamental beliefs

• Rethink their culture from the foundations and brainstorm ‘culture hacks’ to enable transformation

We designed a public engagement exercise for the Hong Kong-based pedestrianisation campaign WalkDVRC and ran a training session for a team of in-house facilitators. The engagement exercise included activities and worksheets for:

• Exploring the experience of walking in central Hong Kong

• Identifying priorities, such as air quality or socialising

• Brainstorming ways beyond current obstacles.

We worked with Forum for the Future to design and facilitate a future-focused conference for the luxury fashion group Kering, headquartered in Paris. The programme included:

• Exploring current trends and their implications

• A ‘fishbowl’ discussion series to delve into particular areas of change

• An immersive exhibition of artefacts from future scenarios for luxury fashion.

We facilitated two workshops for the annual meeting of civil society organisations:

• Exploring the future landscape for philanthropy and fundraising with a focus on rising interest from China, drawing on the perspectives of eight personas

• Strengthening organisational adaptation to change by identifying structural and cultural obstacles and building empowered narratives.

For Swire’s Sustainable Development Workshop, we contributed a session on Signals of Change, including:

• Clarifying meaning of ‘signals of change’, as opposed to regular ‘news’

• Thinking about the outcomes of particular signals of change, using a ‘futures wheel’

• Exploring the implications of signals of change for different businesses across Swire Group