The purpose of this pre-conference workshop is to expose participants to the principles and tools of Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight and to allow participants to experience themselves as "futures thinkers', with the ability to imagine the future of health sciences education and to identify implications for practice based on the momentum of current trends and emerging signals.  

Objectives:   

• Introduce the major tenets of Futures Thinking
• Gain the skills needed to identify and capitalize on emerging trends, weak signals, and changing patterns while receiving tangible models that allow participants to immediately apply new learning.
• Expand the field of vision around the possibilities of the future so that participants can make better decisions in the present. Utilize Futures Thinking as the instrument to define resilient, adaptive and transformative strategies for Health Sciences Education.