Embrace Change. Navigate Uncertainty. Build Resilience.
Traditional planning methods fall short in today’s fast-changing world. The Four Future Seasons (FFS) framework is a revolutionary approach designed to help individuals and businesses prepare for multiple potential futures. By understanding and navigating change, you’ll gain the confidence to adapt and thrive in any environment.
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What You’ll Learn
The world is unpredictable, and traditional planning often fails. Four Future Seasons (FFS) offers a breakthrough framework to help you navigate change with confidence.
Block 0
Introduction
Block 1
Navigating the Seasons
Understand each season’s unique characteristics, pitfalls, and opportunities.
Summer:
Leverage stability and predictability for growth and innovation.
Autumn:
Identify emerging signals and navigate transition effectively.
Winter:
Develop an entrepreneurial mindset to adapt in unpredictable environments.
Spring:
Embrace renewal and challenge past assumptions.
Block 2
Strategic Application
Apply the FFS framework to navigate transitions and anticipate change.
Futures Thinking:
Move beyond traditional planning methods with strategic foresight.
Animals Menagerie:
Manage unexpected events through an ecological perspective.
Block 3
Ethical Considerations & Personal Growth
Build resilience and ensure responsible decision-making.
Biases:
Recognize and mitigate cognitive biases for objective planning.
Personal Trauma & FFS:
Learn how trauma affects decision-making and how to embrace renewal.
Ethics:
Develop a strong ethical compass to guide future decisions.
Who Is This Course For?
Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders: Navigate uncertainty and build sustainable growth strategies.
Individuals Facing Change: Gain the tools to embrace transition and personal development.
Organizations: Improve strategic decision-making and foster ethical, forward-thinking leadership.
What You’ll Gain
A new approach to planning and decision-making beyond traditional forecasting.
Practical tools and frameworks to navigate uncertainty with confidence.
Enhanced adaptability and strategic thinking skills.
Improved decision-making by recognizing biases and leveraging diverse perspectives.
A future-proof mindset that embraces innovation, resilience and ethical planning.
FAQ
What is the Four Future Seasons framework all about?
It’s a new approach to help you navigate uncertainty and prepare for multiple potential futures1. It provides tools to understand the world, identify where you are, and proactively plan for any eventuality1. It’s not just a business model, but an approach to life, planning, and decision-making.
How is this different from traditional planning methods?
Traditional methods often fall short in a rapidly changing world.
The Four Future Seasons framework challenges traditional linear planning approaches and helps you to move beyond traditional planning.
It acknowledges that the future is not a linear continuation of the past.
Traditional forecasting methods assume the future will be a linear continuation of past trends and data.
What are the Four Future Seasons?
The four seasons are Summer, Winter, Autumn and Spring
What is the Four Future Seasons based on?
The Four Future Seasons (FFS) framework is based on a combination of diverse concepts:
- Military strategy: Inspired by Donald Rumsfeld’s concept of “known knowns,” “known unknowns,” “unknown knowns,” and “unknown unknowns“…. This framework emphasizes the limits of our knowledge and the need for humility in planning.
- Psychology: Incorporates insights from the Johari Window model…. This model maps key aspects of ourselves to explore true potential.
- Japanese philosophy: Draws inspiration from the Japanese four-season garden, symbolizing the cyclical nature of life and the passing of time
How can the Four Future Seasons framework help with ethics?
As one journeys through the Four Future Seasons, the understanding of ethical decision-making must evolve along with it. The framework helps cultivate an ethical compass that will guide in navigating any circumstance. It emphasizes the need to ensure practices are ethically sound, considering potential blind spots in one’s vision. It prompts reflection on support systems needed to “do the right thing” when the future looks unclear.
What are potential benefits of the Four Future Seasons course?
Key benefits include a new approach to the future, enhanced adaptability, improved decision-making, building resilience, ethical planning, personal growth, practical tools and frameworks, a comprehensive overview, and enhanced innovation
Who is this course for?
The Four Future Seasons course is valuable for anyone seeking to create a better future, not just businesses. The course is designed to assist:
- Individuals in navigating uncertainty and change, particularly trauma survivors, by providing strategies to embrace renewal and adapt to different seasons…. The series emphasizes the value of reflexivity, adaptability, and resilience when engaging with uncertainty.
- Anyone interested in moving beyond traditional planning methods that rely on past data, and developing futures thinking skills…. The Four Future Seasons framework challenges traditional linear planning approaches and helps you to move beyond traditional planning.
- Organisations seeking to improve strategic decision-making and build ethical practices by understanding cognitive biases and promoting responsible planning for the future…. The framework helps cultivate an ethical compass that will guide in navigating any circumstance.
The course aims to equip learners with tools and frameworks to anticipate disruptions, leverage diverse perspectives, and ensure long-term relevance in a changing world.
What is the pricing?
You can buy the full course for $250 or individual modules for $100