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Canadian Foresight Network
Connecting Foresight Community | Driving Futures Literacy
Who We Are
We are a coast-to-coast professional network of Canadian foresight practitioners and futurists — francophone and anglophone — committed to growing futures literacy across industries in Canada and beyond.
Our mission is to foster collaboration, co-create the future, and advance foresight practice through inclusive, open dialogue.
150+ members and growing
From across Canada and beyond—strategists, policymakers, educators, designers, researchers
20 cities represented
From Halifax to Vancouver, Montreal to Calgary
4 sectors actively involved
Government, Academia, Non-Profits, and Industry
What we do
At the Canadian Foresight Network, we create space for imagination, learning, and collaboration around the futures that shape Canada and the world. Our community connects foresight practitioners, researchers, designers, and systems thinkers through a mix of regular events, shared tools, and co-created projects.
Whether you are exploring futures for the first time or leading strategic planning in your field, Canadian Foresight Network offers opportunities to:
- We connect professionals from coast to coast to coast, bridging linguistic and regional divides.
- Collaboration is at our core: we support joint projects, knowledge-sharing, and mutual learning.
- We champion both English and French voices in futures conversations.
- Through training and events, we build capacity in futures methodologies — from games and foresight tools to anticipatory governance and futures literacy.
- We create space for bold thinking — sharing best practices, pushing beyond safe or familiar ideas, and leaving no one behind in conversation.
Initiatives
What’s happening across the CFN community and beyond.
🇨🇦 We are mapping out the foresight community in Canada🇨🇦
As foresight professionals, we often work across industries and disciplines, and even continents. We are so inspired by the global...
🧠✨ How futures-conscious are we—as individuals and as a community
Test your futures consciousness Test developed by the Finland Futures Research Centre and global collaborators measures 5 dimensions ♦️ Time...
Why Join Us
Joining our network means joining a free, growing, and active community with tangible impact and opportunities:
- No cost — our network is entirely free to join.
- We are rapidly expanding — mapping the network community across Canada to strengthen connections and visibility.
- We're conducting leading-edge research on futures consciousness, foresight games, and emergent foresight tools.
- Regular events — workshops, webinars, and community meetups — spark insights, learning, and collaboration.
- Training & capacity building — we offer accessible upskilling across languages and regions.
- We amplify and celebrate initiatives from other networks and practitioners, ensuring great work gets seen and shared.
- We bring together voices from every sector and background — not only futurists — to ensure futures thinking is inclusive, diverse, and practical.
Contact Us
Have a question? Want to collaborate? Just curious about what we do?
We’d love to hear from you.
Reach out to the Canadian Foresight Network team and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.