The series host is Dr. Richard Slaughter, director of Foresight International and foundational professor of foresight at the Australian Foresight Institute, Swinburne University. Slaughter is the also editor of the Knowledge Base of Future Studies, the leading multi-volume graduate textbook worldwide in futures studies.

If you are looking for a foundational series to enhance your own learning or your training at the corporate, college or graduate level, then this series is for you. It shares how to cultivate personal and organization foresight and use this forward view in socially useful ways. The 8 study segments are:
   1. The Making of a Futurist
   2. Critical Futures Studies
   3. The Knowledge Base of Future Studies
   4. Foresight and the Civilizational Challenge
   5. Foresight Methologies and Implementation
   6. How to Create Social Foresight
   7. Integral Futures- A Deeper and Broader Approach
   8. A Conversation with Ken Wilber

Dr. Slaughter is a leading futures educator from Australia, and until 2005, president of the World Future Studies Federation

The DVD package, available now, contains seven 28-minute "video" presentations, plus a participants guide, with handouts and group activities, the series transcript, and URLs to background readings. It is priced at $149.99.

An added bonus to the DVD will be an audio "Conversation on Integral Futures" between Ken Wilber and Richard Slaughter. In addition, the DVD will include all background readings in .pdf format, plus the series power point diagrams for those who want to teach the subject.