Sohail Inayatuallah is a world renowned futurist and political scientist and he was the first futurist I ever met. I wanted to talk with Sohail about how we can go about futures thinking to create social change. In this episode we cover a few different topics including how our names relate to futures thinking and a futures method created by Sohail called Causal Layered Analysis and we share how we deal with life's uncertainty when the rug is pulled from beneath us. Refer to the timestamps to guide your listening.
00:00- 3:13: The story behind the name Sohail Inayatullah
3:13:5:-3: What do our names have to do with future studies?
5:08-6:02: What does Sohail do as a futurist?
6:02: How does Sohail use the future to create social change?
12:29-16:50 Cherie introduces a futures method that Sohail created called Causal layered analysis.
16:50-20:23 Sohail shares stories about the use of CLA
20:33- How to see the future as a learning journey.
21:56 What is a used future and what does it have to do with eating too much chocolate?
23:23 Oppression and imagining a preferred future.
25:55: A teenager dreams of owning her own bubble tea company but needs to change her story.
27:34: How the liberals sell us fearful stories and labour sells us policies.
29:29: How do we move from fearful stories and/or idealistic pipedreams? What about the alternatives in between?
33:32: Cherie and her preferred future and how she had to own what she was pushing away.
33:38 Sohail answers a listeners question: What scenarios do you see playing out with the current conflicts in the world and decline of democracy?
36:24 How do Sohail and Cherie cope with the uncertainty in the world and the lessons learnt from when the rug has been pulled out from beneath you.
40:30 How did Sohail become a futurist?
A tool box to understand and apply Causal Layered Analysis
CLATOOLBOX2017FUTURIBLES.pdf (metafuture.org)
Sohails website and training opportunities
About us – Metafuture: Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević
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