WHAT, THE FUTURE?!
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Welcome
Hi,
Hereby I would like to invite you to become a guest on my newest project, the "What the Future?!" podcast.
In this podcast, I will bring together guest experts and people from different walks of life to talk and explore various aspects of Futures Thinking in personal development. The interview will be done online via Zoom, take 30 to 40 minutes and conducted in a semi-structured way (see questions below).
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The purpose of this podcast is
 ‣ Promotion of TEDxVilvoorde - What the Future?! (10.10.2020)
 ‣ To inform and spread insights on the importance of Futures Thinking in personal development

 ‣ Part of content strategy for my blog and book “Evolving on Purpose”
 ‣ To promote your ideas and thoughts on futures thinking, personal evolution, future of humanity...
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This podcast is created with social open-minded realistic optimists in mind who are committed to doing meaningful work especially therapists, (life, health, career) coaches, counsellors, educators and people working in HR.
The first season will focus on
  • How much you can know and learn about the future.
  • How to explore, understand and anticipate the future.
  • How to participate, influence or change the future.
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Listening to this podcast will give the listener concrete and practical tools to
  ✓  Develop a future-oriented mindset to make positive changes in their life
  ✓  Create a long-term meaning in their life
  ✓  Understand their direction in the present
  ✓  Accept uncertainty, learn to navigate and cope better with change
  ✓  Become more resilient to deal with unpleasant surprises that await in the future
  ✓  See new prospects more clearly and design the personal future(s) they want
  ✓  Help them deal with ignorance

How to be prepared for the unexpected?


The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted that the world we are living in is far more volatile than many imagined, wanted or could believe. Suddenly billions of people around the globe are under lockdown, and millions of businesses are closed. Others like the first-line health workers, pharmacists and  people at working in grocery stores are putting their lives at risk to combat this invisible enemy or provide the necessary means so others can wait out the storm.

There is no denying it, we are living in uncertain times, a time where the world has changed overnight, and business as usual is not usual any more, Whatever we thought of the future it will never be the same again.
Uncertainty about the future results in stress and anxiety. Stress and anxiety caused by uncertainty can in turn lead to physical and mental health problems. They can also lead to spiritual health problems like loss of direction and meaning in life and in worse case scenario's suicide.

How can you help?

The future is about change, but I believe you can make the future that little bit more predictable, secure and hopeful for so many others by sharing your story, ideas and insights. Many people need new insights, inspiration, role models and leadership to evolve in these exponential changing times. In other words they need you.

Let’s start sharing our stories and help people to turn insights gained into actionable plans - personal visions from which they can futurize themselves.


So please join me and accept my invitation and together we will make a difference.

Your host

Tom

“Thinking in the present is what has got us here - now it’s time to start thinking from the future to get us out of here.”

ORGANISATION

For the smooth running of the interview
  • A couple of days before the interview we schedule a 30 minute prep call (to go through the questions)
  • The interview will be done with Zoom and the actual recorded part shouldn't be longer than 30-minutes. As WIFI connections sometimes break-up I would like to ask that you record the interview at your end too via Quick Time Player, with your phone or another device.
  • For the recording make sure you look your best, meaning think of yourself your background, lighting and also that during the 30 minutes there won't be any disruptions that could have been prevented.

QUESTIONS


‣ Can you tell us a personal story where you created a new vision for your life or reinvented yourself that defines who you
   are today?

‣ Do you (sometimes) think about the future?
‣ When you think about the future, what do you think about?

   ‣ ‣ Personal future?
   ‣ ‣ Collective future?

‣ How and how often do you think about your individual (personal) future?
   ‣ ‣ When do you let the future happen to you?
   ‣ ‣ When do you actively participate in your future?
‣ How do you imagine your individual (personal) future? (Do you have a vision of you in 5 - 10 years time?)
‣ What tools do you use to explore, understand and anticipate your individual future (create that imagined future)?
‣ How do you monitor and evaluate your (future) progress?


‣ What are the questions about the future that keep you occupied today?

‣ Do you have a question for one of the guests or a suggestion for another guest you would like me to interview?

“Futurize Y'ourself: Incorporate futures thinking into y'our present decisions on purpose”

FEATURED GUESTS

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Maya van Leemput
Futures Researcher
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Elizaveta Glukhova
Expert space culture
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Bernard Moerman
career and executive coach
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Younis Hijazi
exponential transformation coach
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Erin M.Charneux
Historian, Author and artist
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Eline Jutelyte
EVENT MARKETEER
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Perry Knoppert
Multipotentialite
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Anna Sitnikova
ART CURATOR

Personal Futures

"If the future is not fixed or predetermined, then more than one future must be available and it is possible to change the future through the actions we take today."
Verne Wheelwright Ph.D.
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YOUR HOST

Tom Meyers, also know as TomTom the health navigator is an osteopath, body-centred stress coach, forward thinker, space enthusiast, TEDx organiser and author of Futurize Yourself - Design your life on purpose.
Tom's mission is to empower you to live well in this fast-changing, uncertain, and challenging world by helping you to futurize y’ourself on purpose in body, mind and spirit.

The future calls. Will you answer?

The future is about change, and because change is unpredictable you can explore the future
to make it that little bit more predictable.

EVENT

10/10/2020
What the Future?!

TEDxVilvoorde.com
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