Scan literature for future trends and signals of change.

Who’s involved?

Futurists

Residents share experiences and aspirations

Who’s involved?

Residents

Provoke and stretch thinking through future scenarios.

Who’s involved?

Residents, philanthropic partners, and wide range of stake holders.

Use new vantage point as basis for designing equitable national vision.

Who’s involved?

Residents, philanthropic partners, and wide range of stake holders.

Localize and implement vision strategies.

Who’s involved?

Regional and sectoral coalitions

Foster a national learning mosaic that realizes visions.

Who’s involved?

Regional and sectoral coalitions

FORESIGHT is unlike many initiatives where the design of the process precedes the collective work. While doing things this way takes some getting used to, FORESIGHT’s process must constantly emerge from what is discovered through preceding parts of the initiative so that it reflects diverse interests and perspectives, including those of underserved populations, and so that we all have the opportunity to learn from one another in the future.

Health is related to nearly everything; what trends and emerging issues should influential leaders pay attention to most? Ensuring equitable and meaningful design of futures scenarios, and ultimately setting regions up to identify preferred visions for the future, requires that residents’ experiences must drive which trends should rise to the top when developing alternative scenarios, or stories, of how things might change in the future.

Although the specific design of Phase 2 will depend on what emerges from Phase 1, the intent is to take insights to action. FORESIGHT leaders will work closely with a diverse group of people and sectors from handful of regions as they develop customized transition plans for bringing about what they helped envision in Phase 1. These plans will recognize the simultaneous validity of both meeting today’s responsibilities and pursuing tomorrow’s goals, and might include new policy and investment imperatives, new ways of partnering, new relationships, new organizational forms, new kinds of resource allocation, new technologies, new ways of measuring success, and more.