# Do we need to know what the future looks like?

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Podcast: [Two Inconvenient Women](https://stenobird.com/podcast/two-inconvenient-women-7014979)
Published: 2026-03-20T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Many organisations and governments work within a strategy of Futures Thinking - a strategic concept to make predictions and pathways for probable and plausible futures. Yet how useful is this when the variables around us are changing so rapidly? And how plausible can any strategic planning be within structures only designed with short-term foundations? In this week's episode we explore the future (sort of) and whether we have any capacity to predict anything. We talk about the role of presence in enabling us to be rooted in the here and now, rather than living in the past or future; explore the concept of seven-generational thinking; think about the limits our future is being given as we flounder with some of the systemic challenges on a national and global scale and reflect on why it can feel both terrifying and liberating to 'let go' of knowing and start to sense our way forward instead. In this week's episode we reference the following: Berkana Two Loops model of systems change (framework & website) Berkana Institute (Website) Meg Wheatley (website) Imagination Activism - Phoebe Tickell (Website) Futures Thinking - UK Government (Website) Imagination Taking Power - Rob Hopkins (website) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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