Rather than take 13 years to discover these futures tools, you can learn them from me in 13 weeks.

Each semester now I am teaching a "Survey of Futures Studies" via Regent University's online Blackboard course system. If you are looking for how to turn your organization from a past-driven into a future-focused effort, this might be your ticket.

Through online-streaming lectures, readings, discussion, feedback and customized projects you will explore the changing 21st century world. Through this investment, you will learn five key competencies, that will give you a leadership edge:

• FORESIGHT: how to launch a foresight project that revitalizes the strategic pathway for your organization, industry or community.
  
  
• TRENDS: how to develop a database on trends and emerging issues for use in organizational change.
  
  
• FUTURES: how to incorporate profound futures concepts and tools into your own leadership mix.
  
  
• SCENARIOS: how to recognize key drivers of change and use them to map out alternative futures of your organization.
  
  
• FAITH: how to integrate a forward view into your vocation and use it to give birth to new endeavors that transform communities.

The class size will be small. That will enable me to spend more time with you, ensuring you master the field of foresight, whether in a non-profit or business context.

You will get this and more in this three credit course for $668, at the audit price. Textbooks are another 20% on top of that.

I realize that's not lunch money, but I assure you it will be an investment of time and money well spent.

In this class you will learn how to:

• Build a dynamic "Mental Model 2" that can lead your organization out of the wilderness into tomorrow.
• Both critique and profit from technologies and social changes emerging from now till 2025.
• Master a trend-scanning process I used to help organizations stay head and heels above their collaborators and competitors.
• Learn the craft of spinning scenarios--how to think the unthinkable, and prepare your organization for paradigm shifting change.

I encourage you to join me this fall via Regent University for this unique course in strategic foresight. You will join other mid-career professionals at the cutting edge of their fields.

If you are interested in enrolling in LMSF602: Survey of Futures Studies, contact me directly and I'll forward you a non-degree student course application. The cost for audit students is $667.50 for the course, with textbooks, around $99 on top of that. Invest in your future today. See the syllabus at:
http://www.regent.edu/acad/sls/syllabi/lmsf602.htm

Also: if you are interested in this field, Regent is launching an 11-course M.A. in Strategic Foresight, in Fall 2006. You can join our kick-off class. See our program page at http://www.regent.edu/leadership/msf
and learn more about the School of Leadership Studies. Applications for that program need to be in by July 1, 2006, but they are taking applications right now. Master the art of foresight and take your leadership to a higher level.