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Strategic Foresight Masterclass

Next Session:

Tuesday November 25th -

Wednesday November 26th 2025

@ Stone & Chalk

Lot Fourteen, North Terrace Adelaide SA 5000

We live in times of extraordinary change.

The SA Futures Agency Strategic Foresight Masterclass is for anyone who wants to build the confidence and capability to make sense of complexity, navigate uncertainty, and create strategic, systemic, and hopeful responses to the future — individually and collectively.

What You’ll Learn in our Masterclass

What Is Foresight?

An overview and typology of different approaches and philosophies.
Horizon Scanning

How to scan for signals, trends, megatrends and identify critical uncertainties.
Exploratory Scenarios

Explore deductive scenario development using multiple uncertainties and morphological analysis.
Visioning

Co-develop an inspiring, pluralist vision for the South Australia we want in 2050.
From Vision to Strategy

Prioritise vision elements using participatory methods.
Strategic Pathways

Use backcasting to design robust and adaptive strategic pathways.
Adaptive Strategy

Identify “no regrets” actions and conditional strategies to build an adaptive plan that can flex with uncertainty.
The Journey Continues

Wrap up the experience by weaving together everything you’ve learned — and explore how to carry foresight into your everyday work, leadership and decision-making.

Meet your Instructor:

Professor Ariella Helfgott

Professor Ariella Helfgott is a globally respected foresight educator and practitioner. She has taught futures and foresight at the Universities of Oxford and Utrecht, as well as for the Prime Minister’s Office of the United Arab Emirates and the Government of South Australia.

Ariella is currently Director of Foresight and Strategic Learning at the World Energy Council and Program Lead for Foresight and Decision Making at the One Basin Cooperative Research Centre.

Ariella is known for her deeply engaging facilitation style, her ability to turn uncertainty into opportunity, and her commitment to empowering people and communities to shape better futures.