Build your resilience and readiness for a volatile world
The world is increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous). No, it’s actually BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible). No, there’s a disturbance in the Force. No, it’s turtles all the way down…
Whatever we call it, there’s a historic shifting away from stability. How do we meet and match this moment?
After more than 30 years of experience in helping organizations, teams, and individuals create opportunities out of uncertainty, Victoria Ward and Dr Wendy Schultz, co-founders of Jigsaw Foresight, have created THRIVE (Tools for Heightening Resilience in Volatile Environments). These are the methods Wendy and Victoria have used in Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit roundtables, policy labs, and government departments. Now, they’re yours.
THRIVE: Essentials is an online, self-paced course that teaches you how to take time and space, to think clearly, act with intention, and adapt meaningfully in uncertain times. Over three foundational modules, you will learn interdisciplinary essentials in foresight, narrative, and change that you can use to help overcome challenges from the wicked to the everyday, from the personal to the planetary.
What you’ll learn
Each module in THRIVE: Essentials teaches two methods to help you make sense of a live change challenge you are experiencing, and move through it with more clarity, creativity, and confidence.
Module 1: Future Story and Backcasting
Create a vivid, motivating picture of your preferred future and build a pathway to activate change.
Module 2: Shared History and Three Horizons
Use this dual lens to place yourself within wider contexts of change and draw lessons from the past to inform long-term decisions.
Module 3: Futures Wheels and Verge
Explore ripple effects of change and learn to identify emergent trends at the edges of transformation and innovation.
Each module includes:
- Engaging video teaching from Victoria and Wendy
- Practical, real-world exercises you’ll apply to your own challenges
- Downloadable worksheets and facilitation-ready materials
- Flexible, self-paced structure (no final exams, no one poring over your personal reflections)
- Off script reflections from Victoria and Wendy on their 30+ years of experience in the field
- A certificate of completion
Pricing
- Full course (3 modules): £250
- 10% off for students and non-profits (email us for details via admin@jigsawforesight.com)
Is this for you?
This course isn’t for everyone. It’s interdisciplinary, it’s practice based, it requires you to use your imagination (gasp!). But if you are:
- Facing a strategic inflection point in your life or career
- Guiding and leading others through complex transition
- Rethinking capability-building for the future, for yourself or others
- Adapting to rapid tech shifts and changing expectations
- A purpose driven professional burned out by productivity hacks and business-as-usual change
- A change agent looking to deepen impact and imagination in ambiguous conditions
Then THRIVE is for you.
You might be a solo consultant, a middle manager, a systems thinker, or simply someone who feels caught in the current of change and wants to meet it well.
This is for the curious, the stretched, the dissatisfied. **People who want to build resilience and readiness for change without burning out.
For a preview, watch this introductory video. Or, check out the sample exercise below.
For some free provocation, download six prompts we use to think smarter about change, which you can use to challenge your own thinking or bring into a team meeting.
What you’ll take away
You’ll finish each module able to apply two methods to your real-life context, not just some notes to put in a file and forget about. You’ll be able to get going and act.
You’ll join a growing community of foresight and transformation literate professionals who are operating with increased resilience in volatile environments.
FAQs
What is foresight?
Foresight comprises a wide variety of theories, frameworks, methods and processes drawn from over 50 years of conceptual development and applied practice, which are extensively documented in the peer-reviewed literature.
Foresight is not about predicting the future, nor is it freeform speculative imagination. It is a structured approach to make sense of future challenges and to inform decision-making and priority-setting, taking a long-term view to make short- and medium-term decisions. Foresight also prompts us to critically assess our current assumptions and what we take for granted in a context of evolving change.
Most simply, foresight focuses our attention on change and its impacts over time. Foresight can be thought of as a set of reflective questions that engage us in thinking critically and systemically about change and its implications – both emerging risks <em>and</em> emerging opportunities. It helps reduce blind spots regarding potential changes and impacts. It widens our sense of the positive potential of the future. At its most effective, it is a systematic survey of developments relevant to our roles and functions that are likely to result in the greatest health, social, and economic benefits in the future.
Social change, technological and scientific advancement and innovation of any kind are characterised by complex, dynamic interactions, serendipity and inherent unpredictability. Limits to knowledge require continuous re-evaluation of options and strategic choices. Foresight enables us to respond more rapidly and rigorously to upcoming changes that overturn our assumptions and current ways of working.
Foresight helps us to understand how much more we can ask of the future in setting our goals and imagining better futures.
By Dr Wendy Schultz, Futurist & Co-Founder of Jigsaw Foresight.
I’m not a leader, is this for me?
These methods can be used on a scale from the personal to the planetary. We believe everyone is a leader in different situations: you don’t need a fancy title or responsibilities to take this course. Taking it will strengthen your skills and confidence for both formal leadership roles and informal leadership situations when you find yourself needing to step up.
What’s included?
Each module in THRIVE: Fundamentals covers two foresight methods:
- Module 1: Future Story and Backcasting.
- Module 2: Shared History and Three Horizons.
- Module 3: Futures Wheels and Verge.
Every module also offers:
- Training for how to run these exercises at different scales, and why these specific tools are extra-powerful when paired up.
- Real-world examples of the tools in use ‘in the wild’ from Victoria and Wendy.
By completing the full course, you will take away a compelling vision of a future that you want to inhabit, and a plan for how you got there.
How much does it cost?
The full course including all 3 modules is £250. You can purchase your seat here.
We offer 10% off for students and non-profits. You can email us at admin@jigsawforesight.com for more details.
How does the training take place?
Through an online, work-at-your-own-pace platform called Thinkific. Log in to access a combination of videos, worksheets, and other support tools for your learning journey.
How long will it take?
We estimate around 90 minutes to complete each module. So plan for around four to five hours of learning time, which you can do in stages at a pace and time that suits you.
How is it assessed?
Use the module workbook for guidance on how to self-assess your completed exercises. Compare with completed examples that can also be found in the module workbook.
Is this accredited?
No, THRIVE: Fundamentals isn’t recognised by any specific accreditation bodies. You’ll receive a certificate of completion for your course attendance once you’ve finished.
How long will I have access to the course?
You will have access for the lifetime of the course.
I want to talk to Victoria and Wendy about something completely different.
Great. You can read more about them and get in touch with them HERE
I have another question.
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Meet Victoria and Wendy
Victoria Ward | Co Founder
Organisational Change and Knowledge Management Expert, Leadership and Team Coach
Victoria works as coach, strategic adviser, convenor for, and companion to, those who seek to create lasting change, in themselves, in their teams and networks, in the organization as a whole, or in the system in which the organization plays a part. Her clients over a 27 year period have included multinational corporations – cultural institutions, development banks and agencies, academic institutions and projects and professional associations: World Health
Organization, the International Labour Organization, the Asian Development Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Foundation for International Law for the Environment, The Law Society UK and Wales, Deep Transitions Lab.
Dr Wendy Schultz | Co Founder
Futures and Foresight Expert
Dr. Wendy Schultz has over 40 years of experience in global futures research and participatory foresight. She specializes in participatory futures methods and systems-informed foresight, designing workshops for organizations like the World Organization of Animal Health, the International Labor Organization, and the UN Office of the Secretary-General. Her sessions have trained policymakers, international agency teams, and military leaders across cities such as Geneva, Kuala Lumpur, and New York.
Her award-winning work has been published in Futures, Foresight, the Journal of Futures Studies, and The Handbook of Futures Studies. Wendy has lectured at the University of Houston, Nanyang Technological University, and the University of Turku.
She co-founded Jigsaw Foresight, directs Infinite Futures, and is a Fellow of several prestigious organizations, including the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the World Futures Studies Federation.
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