The Wicked Opportunities Podcast

The Futures School
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The Wicked Opportunities Podcast

The world is filled with Wicked Problems - incredibly complicated predicaments that don’t have simple solutions. However, the real problem isn’t our complex world, but rather our outdated mindsets. The way that we see the future directly impacts the actions that we take today, so a better world requires better visions. Join futurists Yvette Montero Salvatico and Frank Spencer each week as they use the Natural Foresight® Framework to reframe our Wicked Problems into the transformational ideas that they call Wicked Opportunities.

  1. MAR 5

    Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Innovation

    In this episode of the Wicked Opportunities® Podcast, TFSX Principal Frank Spencer speaks with physician, aquanaut, dive medical technician, speaker, martial artist, skydiver, and VP of Immersive Medicine at Luxsonic Technologies, Dr. Shawna Pandya.Dr. Shawna Pandya has a vision for shaping the future of medicine through transdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.

    47 min

  2. JAN 23

    Art as Foresight

    Breaking free from conventional thinking, TFSX Principal Frank Spencer delves into futures through an "art-based" lens with ARTEFACTO Founders Andrea Busquets and Pablo Reyes Arellano. Explore their innovative approach, liberating us to envision new futures, "dream ourselves awake," and contribute to cultural evolution through civic participation.

    52 min

  3. JAN 3

    Pathways of the Unimagined with Nora Bateson

    TFSX Co-Founder Frank Spencer discusses her new book, Combining, in-depth with Nora Bateson. Listen as Nora discusses poems, passages, and concepts from her book that reinforce our need to elevate our sacred connection to the cosmic whole to discover/engage with understand/undergo ancestral and generational transformation.

    1h 14m
  4. Humility - Acting Toward the Future Without Self-Importance

    06/20/2023

    Humility - Acting Toward the Future Without Self-Importance

    We know… it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way. (At least that’s what Mac Davis said back in 1980, and when was he ever wrong?). Nevertheless, we all need to realize that we hold only a small part of the larger human, planetary, and cosmic story, and such a realization will attune us to the deeper picture within various situations, as well as helping us to take our personal viewpoints, perspectives, and self-importance out of that picture. When this happens, we are better po...

    41 min
  5. Connectedness - Commitment to Connection Around the Future

    06/05/2023

    Connectedness - Commitment to Connection Around the Future

    When you think about the future, does the idea of connection come to mind? It did for Kermit the Frog! (Well, at least in relation to rainbows, lovers, and dreamers). In reality, connection is a critical mindset when it comes to practicing rigorous foresight. Exploring alternative possibilities through the lens of ecosystems, interconnectedness, and the “larger whole” - past, present, and yet-to-come - is the only way to perceive the deeply emerging realities necessary for robust futures-read...

    41 min
  6. Appreciation: Appreciation for the Positive Qualities in Various Future Situations

    05/22/2023

    Appreciation: Appreciation for the Positive Qualities in Various Future Situations

    You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop… the Relating dimension! (Thank you for letting us include a Twilight Zone reference - this is a foresight podcast, after all.) Our first stop in this new dimension within the Inner Development Goals: Appreciation, a skill, and trait that enables us to cultivate wonder, gratitude, and awe - important capabilities if we want to become deep imag...

    33 min
  7. Long-Term Orientation and Visioning: Embracing a Long-Now View in the Development of Visions of the Future

    05/04/2023

    Long-Term Orientation and Visioning: Embracing a Long-Now View in the Development of Visions of the Future

    In this last episode within the Thinking dimension of the Inner Development Goals, TWOP hosts Yvette Montero Salvatico and Frank Spencer get to talk about their favorite subject: Kevin Bacon! Correction… we meant to say “visioning.” (But who doesn’t also love a good 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon story?) Embodying the trait of visioning is about much more than supercharging our imaginations for greater possibilities, though that’s an important part; it’s about having the inner ability to sustain an...

    37 min
  8. Sense Making: Actively Looking for Patterns and Stories About the Future

    04/27/2023

    Sense Making: Actively Looking for Patterns and Stories About the Future

    You want a story? Ok, “Once upon a time, there were two crazy but incredibly smart podcast hosts who loved to talk about the future…” Oh, you want us to help you find the stories all around you? Well, why didn’t you say so? We love to empower people to look for the puzzle pieces, the interconnections, and the patterns that make up the stories that are actually shaping our realities. This is what is meant by sense-making - the critical skill of structuring the unknown, engaging with diverse li...

    38 min
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The world is filled with Wicked Problems - incredibly complicated predicaments that don’t have simple solutions. However, the real problem isn’t our complex world, but rather our outdated mindsets. The way that we see the future directly impacts the actions that we take today, so a better world requires better visions. Join futurists Yvette Montero Salvatico and Frank Spencer each week as they use the Natural Foresight® Framework to reframe our Wicked Problems into the transformational ideas that they call Wicked Opportunities.

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  • Creator
    The Futures School
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 The Wicked Opportunities Podcast
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    The Wicked Opportunities Podcast

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