Congratulations to Terry Collins and James Breaux! Both will be hosting the session Starting Integral – Visioning and a New STEEP Sector during the WorldFuture 2013 conference this July.
This session is about using an Integral perspective as the starting point for foresight work. The panel will speak to visioning at the beginning of the process and also that the visioning activity should include an enquiry of what wants to emerge from the “evolutionary integral future.” This consideration widens the perspective to include the well-being of the whole ecosystem with the possible benefits of resilience, waking up, growing up, and showing up. Included in this session is the proposal that where you end up is often influenced by where you start. The brain is notorious for substituting a familiar interpretation of circumstance, environment, and the past. With this in mind and inspired by Richard Slaughter’s A New Framework for Environmental Scanning, a new STEEP mnemonic is proposed that allows the foresight professional to begin environmental scanning with all four quadrants of perspective in play.
Terry Collins is a futures consultant and a lecturer at the University of Houston who has appeared on Great Day Houston talking about foresight and technology. She is co-author of The Evolution of Integral Futures, World Future Review, Houston, Texas, USA. Follow her @IntegralTerry.
James Breaux is graduate student of futures studies at the University of Houston, a registered professional engineer, and a student member of the Association of Professional Futurists, World Future Society, and World Futures Studies Federation, Baytown, Texas. Follow him @Bagelx.
