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 Here are some of Yvonne's favourite resources:

  • Future Times Archive: View the full archives of the New Zealand Future Trust's quarterly journal; a repository of the trust's work over thirty years from 1982 till 2013.
  • World Futures Studies Federation:  The WFSF is a UNESCO and UN consultative partner and global NGO with members in over 60 countries. We bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, students and futures-focused institutions. WFSF offers a forum for stimulation, exploration and exchange of ideas, visions, and plans for alternative futures, through long-term, big-picture thinking and radical change.
  • The McGuinness Institute, the Wellington-based foresight organisation, has an extensive archive of online resources available and a physical library (The James Duncan Reference Library) which houses publications on New Zealand’s future-thinking initiatives and historical development.
Podcasts we recommend:

  • FuturePod: A series of podcast interviews with international founders and emerging leaders in the fields of Futures and Foresight, sharing their stories, tools and experiences.
  • The Wicked Opportunities Podcast: A podcast series hosted by US-based futuristsYvette Montero Salvatico and Frank Spencer who run Kedge, a global foresight, innovation & strategic design firm and The Futures School, a training organisation teaching strategic foresight.

Training Resources - Teaching Futuring and Foresight:

  • This Futures Kit, was developed back in 1982 by Aotearoa's own Commission for the Future.  It lays out some of the key ideas, skills and techniques for futuring and is amazingly fresh and inspiring today. It was initially intended for use by coordinators, teachers and community leaders to to help them lead futuring initiatives. But it's a great introduction for anyone to futuring.
  • This UNESCO Cultural Futures Guide: This training guide was developed in 2000 by The New Zealand Futures Trust in partnership with UNESCO to teach foundational futures studies to secondary school students. It was distributed for free to secondary schools around the country for around a decade. Although the links are outdated, the fundamental skills and activities are still relevant today - and there hasn't been an update created since.

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