The Dragonfly Journey

Why do we need a different approach to foresight?

Our basic ideas about practicing foresight – just like everything else in life – are generally influenced and defined by our linear and mechanistic system centered on siloing, separation, quantification, reduction, control, and extrapolation. Our frustration with this pervasive and limiting approach inspired us to begin sharing the generative futures philosophy of Holoptic Foresight Dynamics®  (HFD).

HFD is for anyone who is ready to move beyond futuring as a systemic method, and into futuring as a cooperative trait of life-giving consciousness. This approach seeks to unlock a shared universal dynamic of care, empathy, diversity, collaboration, and love within all, reframing how we approach foresight and futures thinking for more generative and transformative outcomes. “The way we see the future directly impacts the actions we take today.”

Foresight… Futures Thinking… Futures Studies… Futures Literacy… Anticipation.

While some may argue that each of these terms has a unique meaning, they all certainly share one thing in common – an attempt to leverage the future as a means to make better decisions in the present.

HFD profoundly challenges this shared outcome by posing these core questions:

• Can we really produce results that create a transformed world if our value proposition begins with a flawed vision of reality?
• Have we deeply considered the impact that extractive and exploitative systems have on our foresight efforts?
• Can we effectively implement change without first addressing the way we think, feel, sense, and intuit the world around us? 
• In a time between worlds, can we afford to utilize foresight tools and methods before we deeply consider our understanding of the very biological, psychological, and sacred nature of futures thinking?
• Is our “doing” truly beneficial if we haven’t first addressed our collective “becoming?”

Such a foundation makes all the difference in the world, liberating us from the efficient tyranny of circular “doing” into the kinship, the relational emergence, the meadowverse, the pluriversiality, and the cosmovision of “being” and “becoming.” With such a foundation, our work can become truly human, symbiotic, meaningful, and spiritual.

Details

• 6 live-online Zoom Community of Practice (CoP) convenings (including the introductory session)
  • See each of the respective CoP lessons for the Zoom connection URL

• Joining “The Collective” membership on my.TFSX grants you access to The Dragonfly Journey CoP sessions

• There is an open community space for The Dragonfly Journey members to swarm with one another on HFD topics and discussions

• Each CoP session will include pre-work:
  • Reserve 2 hours prior to each live-online CoP session to immerse in a pre-recorded thought leadership resource and answer prompting questions related to the convening topic
  • If you wish to dive deeper, there will be optional, supplemental readings we’ve curated

• Community of Practice (CoP) sessions:
  • Frank Spencer, TFSX Co-Founder and Holoptic Foresight Dynamics® creator, guides themed discussions inspired by assigned HFD thought leaders
  • Trust, openness, love, and deep listening are non-negotiable social contracts
  • Live discussions are NOT recorded
  • The conversations are rooted in emergence from the community
  • An additional prompt will be issued at the close of the 90-minute session for participants to reflect and share on in The Dragonfly Journey dedicated community space on my.TFSX

• Certified Foresight Professionals in Natural Foresight® will earn 15 PDCs if they attend all five CoP sessions live and complete the pre-work  prompts in the dedicated my.TFSX group

2024/2025 Schedule

• December 10th 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET – Introductory Session (free)
• February 25th  2 pm – 3:30 pm ET – Community of Practice (CoP) Session One
• April 22nd 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET – Community of Practice (CoP) Session Two
• June 24th 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET – Community of Practice (CoP) Session Three
• August 19th 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET – Community of Practice (CoP) Session Four
• October 28th 2pm – 3:30pm ET – Community of Practice (CoP) Session Five