The Future of Authenticity Authenticity. What does this term mean to you? Honest, real, truthful, or perhaps being your genuine self? That is what comes to my mind when thinking about authenticity and I have always tried to stay true to that ideal. After all, people...
The Great Heat Death Artist: Lonnie Holley I had intended to write about heat. Heat death. Fascinating and terrible that extreme heat events - consistently the climate-related disaster with the highest rates of mortality - have, until recently, not...
Who we are: The Fellows, National Advisory Board, and Home Team Our 26 fellows applied from around the United States and Canada. People applied because they believed a futures approach would accelerate and deepen their own practice as social work scholars,...
The Rush of Needed Change We’ve all felt the rush of learning something new. Asking for directions in a new language. Learning to ride a bike. Switching from a Dell to an Apple computer. For me, my most recent rush has been participating as a Fellow with the...
Welcome This month, we’ll start a new phase of the Social Work Health Futures Lab. Though we began our work together about 6 months ago, we’ve been working together as community “offline” a bit as we have been engaged in foresight training, getting to know each...
Webinar Series on Social Work and The Future. Written by Laura Nissen Ph.D., LMSW This past spring, sponsored by the National Network of Social Work Management, Fordham University School of Social Service, and Portland State School of Social Work sponsored a 3-part...
