Services to anticipate tomorrow’s needs
Would you like to strengthen your company’s ability to cope with current and future transformations? La Société des demains can support you with a range of services, including workshops, conferences and training courses, based on forward-looking methods.
Whether you want to learn about foresight methods or adapt them to your organization’s specific challenges, our offer creates an environment conducive to exploring possible futures, mobilizing collective intelligence and making informed decisions in the face of uncertainty.
Discover foresight in action
Independent training — Learn about foresight at your own pace
Are you interested in discovering foresight, with no formal commitment or schedule to block? This self-paced training course is for you! Received directly by e-mail, it guides you through five key notions of foresight presented in a clear, accessible and stimulating way. Each notion is followed by a short practical exercise. To be completed on your own, at your own pace, this introductory course will give you a better understanding of the principles of future thinking and enable you to develop a futurist’s posture.
Organizational training
Would you like to go further and integrate foresight into your professional practice? Our synchronous training courses (face-to-face or online) are designed for teams and organizations wishing to act methodically in the face of uncertainty. Offered in different formats (4 h, 6 h or 8 h that can be divided into blocks of 2 h or 3 h), they are flexible and adaptable to your reality.
We currently offer two components, which can be adapted to suit your business sector:
Applying foresight to your business
How can you make informed decisions in an uncertain world? This course introduces you to the methods and tools of foresight applied to the organizational context. Through concrete examples and exercises adapted to your reality, you’ll learn to identify weak signals, explore possible futures, build scenarios and imagine more resilient strategies. An opportunity to take a step back, broaden your field of vision and mobilize your team around a shared vision of the future.
Structuring an effective anticipatory watch
A “foresight watch” is much more than simply gathering information: it’s a lever for anticipation and decision-making. This training course will equip you to build a watch adapted to your challenges, by integrating a prospective reading of change. You’ll learn how to define your watch priorities, choose the right sources, organize the information gathered and produce useful analyses for your decision-making. Particular attention is paid to the detection of weak signals, those early clues that enable you to spot emerging transformations before they become visible on a large scale. A methodical, mobilizing approach to transforming information into strategic intelligence.
Inspiring, mobilizing, transforming perspectives
Do you want to raise awareness, stimulate thought or get things moving? Our conferences are designed to mobilize teams and change the usual discourse by introducing new ways of looking at the world that is coming. Available in formats ranging from 30 minutes to 1 h 30, they can be adapted to your events or strategic meetings, and can be combined with workshops for more in-depth action.
Four themes are available:
Cultivating futures – Why take an interest in foresight?
What if we stopped thinking that tomorrow will simply be an extension of today? This talk invites participants to take a step back and better understand the value—and necessity—of thinking about possible futures. Accessible and inspiring, it introduces the basics of foresight thinking and challenges ingrained reflexes. By cultivating a posture of openness, curiosity and agility, it inspires us to act differently in the face of uncertainty. A powerful trigger for individual and collective transformation.
Conference 2: Looking beyond trends
For la Société des demains, the future is more than just a projection of current trends. This conference explores the many ways of imagining tomorrow, and overcomes the one-track thinking that too often shapes our visions of the future. Through concrete examples, it highlights the limits of an approach based solely on trends, and invites us to open up the field of possibilities. A stimulating exploration to rethink the way we anticipate the future.
A day in 2035 — Making major technological changes tangible
The omnipresence of discourses on Artificial Intelligence, massive data or automation often generates more vagueness than understanding. This conference proposes an enlightening exercise in projection: an ordinary day in 2035, told from a human perspective, to embody the technological mutations to come.
By exploring the spheres of work, family life, communications and mobility, it provides a better understanding of the systemic effects of emerging technologies – often overestimated in the short term, but profoundly transformative in the long term.
A stimulating framework for re-engaging with a critical reading of the technological environment, refining our capacity for anticipation and opening up a lucid dialogue on the futures we’re building.
Tailor-made conference — Weak signals and change drivers specific to YOUR industry
Each sector has its own dynamics, changes and uncertainties. This customized conference offers a targeted, forward-looking portrait, built specifically for your field of activity. By cross-referencing the drivers of change that affect you directly or indirectly, and emerging weak signals, it draws up a clear map of current and future transformations, to feed strategic thinking and provide decision-making tools.
Oxygenating thoughts, reviving imaginations
Would you like to offer your team a moment out of the ordinary? Our workshops are designed as spaces for exploration and stimulation of collective intelligence, ideal for stimulating team spirit, breaking out of routine patterns and bringing out unexpected perspectives. By integrating the tools of foresight, these sessions enable us to align vision, challenges and concrete actions in order to anticipate future transformations and build ambitious yet realistic trajectories for the future.
Each workshop is built around a key question: “The future of…”. This thematic approach allows the exercise to resonate with the concrete concerns of your sector or organization.
Inspiring, enlightening and dynamic, these workshops offer a breath of fresh air by putting to work a transformative process requiring a new posture—foresight.
The future of workplace skills
Against a backdrop of increasing automation, this workshop invites us to reflect on the evolution of the human skills—empathy, critical thinking, collaboration—that will play a central role in tomorrow’s organizations. An opportunity to explore, as a team, how to value and develop these soft skills in a changing environment.
Futures of creativity
Creativity is a powerful driver of innovation, but how does it renew itself in a world saturated with artificial generation and algorithms? This workshop proposes to question our ways of creating, collaborating and imagining in order to liberate new forms of expression.
The futures of workplace well-being
Burnout, hyperconnectivity, mental health: the benchmarks of well-being at work are being redefined. This workshop opens up a space for thinking differently about the conditions for a healthy, motivating and humane environment.
The futures of cities
Between climate crises, social mutations and technological upheavals, what will the cities of tomorrow look like? This workshop is an opportunity to imagine new urban narratives, territories that are more empathetic, adaptive and sustainable.
*Do you have another “Future of” in mind? Write to us, we’re curious by nature!