Futures Literacy
Futures Literacy is the competence that enables people to better understand the role of the future in what they see and do and therefore to function with greater freedom and skill in this regard.
FUTURES LITERACY: A CRUCIAL COMPETENCE FOR A WORLD IN TRANSITION
What if your organization could make uncertainty an asset instead of a liability?
In today’s volatile, fast-shifting environment, strategy can’t be rooted in yesterday’s logic. It must be anchored in the future.
That’s where Futures Literacy comes in.
Endorsed by UNESCO and tailored by AUGMNT for organizational impact, Futures Literacy is the capability to understand why and how we use the future — and to do so with greater freedom, clarity, and precision. It’s not about predicting the future. It’s about using the future to transform how we act in the present.
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
Your decisions are grounded in shared awareness — not outdated assumptions.
Teams begin to recognize the implicit futures shaping their choices and move beyond inherited mental models.
Your teams develop clarity in the face of uncertainty.
Instead of defaulting to urgency or control, they learn to pause, reflect, and act with intention.
You build a culture of anticipation that’s distributed and alive.
Futures-thinking becomes a shared reflex — not a specialized task — shaping how your organization sees, decides, and adapts together.
WHO IS FUTURES LITERACY FOR?
Governments and public institutions seeking to build resilient, inclusive policy frameworks in uncertain times
Businesses and financial actors aiming to derisk long-term strategies and innovate across shifting markets
Educational institutions preparing students for careers that don’t yet exist
Territorial organizations (e.g. chambers of commerce, unions, NGOs) building collective resilience
Leaders and citizens who want to make wiser, future-aware decisions in their daily lives and professional roles
FUTURES LITERACY INTRO WORKSHOP
Because foresight starts with literacy.
This introductory workshop helps your organization and its people grasp what Futures Literacy is—and why it matters now. Through a guided exploration of how we imagine, use, and act toward the future, participants experience how reframing the future changes how we think, decide, and collaborate in the present.
Duration: 2 or 4 hours (in-person or virtual)
Format: Keynote + facilitated discovery exercises
Futures Literacy is not forecasting.
It’s learning to use the future differently—to sense emerging change, challenge assumptions, and create readiness for what comes next.
What Organizations Gain
Strategic Clarity: See beyond short-term cycles and reveal the mental models shaping current strategy.
Future-Ready Culture: Foster an anticipatory mindset across all levels of decision-making.
Adaptive Advantage: Convert uncertainty into a creative and strategic asset instead of a source of stress.
Collective Alignment: Build a shared vocabulary for discussing change, risk, and opportunity.
Innovation Readiness: Prepare teams to engage constructively with emerging technologies, markets, and policies.
Reduced Strategic Myopia: Replace reactionary planning with insight-based anticipation.
What People Gain
Confidence in Uncertainty: Learn to think clearly and act intentionally even when the future is unclear.
Sense of Contribution: Discover how every role helps shape the organization’s preferred future.
Common Language: Develop shared concepts that improve collaboration and reduce friction.
Creative Agency: See how imagination and reason can work together in decision-making.
Personal Growth: Build the capacity to rethink one’s own path, career, and contribution to collective futures.
Building Foundation, Not Taking Steps
This workshop establishes the cognitive infrastructure that enables organizations to fully leverage their strategic investments in an AI-augmented world. It’s the foundational capability that determines whether your foresight tools, innovation processes, and AI adoption achieve their full potential.
Organizations that develop this foundation discover they can amplify the effectiveness of their existing strategic processes. They also discover that anticipatory capability becomes distributed—teams at every level can engage uncertainty with greater clarity and agency, rather than waiting for direction from above. Those that invest in sophisticated tools without this foundation often observe a gap between the power of their tools and their teams’ capacity to fully exploit them.
Futures Literacy isn’t an addition to your strategic capabilities—it’s the infrastructure that allows them to operate at full capacity.
INTERESTED IN KNOWING MORE !
Every organization has a different relationship with uncertainty—but all face the same literacy gap in an AI-augmented world. AUGMNT works with you to determine how Futures Literacy builds the cognitive infrastructure your context requires.
Contact us to begin the conversation.