Since we encourage as wide a circulation of our work as possible, we have most IFF material available on this site free to download under a creative commons licence. This can be found in context at various parts of the website. But for convenience we provide here a full list of available publications under the four broad headings of health, learning, enterprise and governance as well as those associated with IFF meetings. Where these reports are related to wider IFF processes you will find links to the relevant part of the site.

Printed Publications
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Beyond Survival
This short pamphlet distils from IFF’s experience a series of four lessons to orient ourselves to the present crisis.
Available as a hard copy from the gift shop when bought with Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency.
Date: 18 Mar 2009  Size: 941kB

Economies of Life
A collection of five essays by Bill Sharpe exploring the principles of ecological and economical thinking and their relationship. The essays consider with poetic sensitivity and intellectual clarity what keeps each of the many economies he identifies healthy, what sort of wealth each one accumulates and what sort of policies are most supportive of innovation and sustainability in a changing world. This is a text-only version of the publication for download. The full published version with figures and illustrations is available from the gift shop
Date: 29 Apr 2010  Size: 1.0MB

In Search of the Missing Elephant
What personal qualities are required to acknowledge and confront the deep uncertainty and 'the inevitable fact of our ignorance' in a complex, fast-changing world? With this collection of five extraordinary and challenging essays, Graham Leicester introduces us to the astonishing intellect of Don Michael (1923 - 2000) whose wisdom, humanity, integrity, and commitment to confronting the most vexing and complex problems continue to inspire everyone who encounters his work. This is a text-only version available for download. The full published version, beautifully illustrated by Heather Fallows, is available from the gift shop where you can also learn more about its content.
Date: 21 May 2010  Size: 1.1MB

Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency
This book describes the condition of conceptual emergency - in which the models and concepts we use to grasp and make sense of the world are losing their power and responsible and intelligent action becomes more difficult as a result. It outlines ten strategies for operating effectively in such a world.
Available as a hard copy from the gift shop.
Date: 18 Mar 2009  Size: 787kB

Transformative Innovation in Education
A practical handbook for ‘pragmatic visionaries’ in education. The pamphlet outlines the limitations of incremental reform and how to trigger real change in educational institutions – introducing the new in the presence of the old. This is a text-only version of the publication for download. The full published version with figures and illustrations is available from the gift shop.
Date: 01 Sep 2009  Size: 995kB

NHS: Learning in Times of Change and Uncertainty project details
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Fourth Forum Report 27th May 2008
A report of the 4th forum discussion in which members used the IFF three horizons apporach to explore existing challenges in teaching Community Health Partnerships and specialist/generalist learning and teaching
Date: 28 Nov 2008  Size: 478kB

Report of First Education Forum, 30 March 2006
Record of the first SE NHS Education Forum held in Edinburgh in March 2006. Conclusion: the NHS needs to learn how to operate in conditions of complexity and uncertainty. Our tried and tested methods are unlikely to fulfil this need.'
Date: 06 Jun 2007  Size: 87kB

Report of Second Education Forum 21 September 2006
Record of the second SE NHS Education Forum in September 2006: identifies major strategic development issues and first thoughts about action.
Date: 15 Mar 2009  Size: 334kB

Report of Third Education Forum, 21 March 2007
Record of the third SE NHS Education Forum in March 2007. Title - NHS learning, training and education in circumstances of complexity and uncertainty.
Date: 06 Jun 2007  Size: 1.5MB

Culture and Health project details
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Discussion Paper 1 Organisation of literature scan
Date: 18 Dec 2008  Size: 151kB

Discussion Paper 2 Consumer Society and The Good Life
Date: 18 Dec 2008  Size: 134kB

Discussion Paper 3 Thinking about culture as an influence on wellbeing
Date: 18 Dec 2008  Size: 410kB

Discussion Paper 4 The role of emotions in wellbeing : bridging biology and culture
Date: 18 Dec 2008  Size: 219kB

Discussion Paper 5 Spirituality and wellbeing: Salvation in the Therapy Culture?
Date: 18 Dec 2008  Size: 218kB

Discussion paper 6 Modernism and its consequences for wellbeing
Date: 18 Dec 2008  Size: 312kB

Discussion paper 7 The links between sustainability and well-being:
Date: 18 Dec 2008  Size: 349kB

Learning Journey Report October 2006
A report ont he first of two learning journeys undetraken in 2006/07 to take soundings from different perspectives on culture and health
Date: 22 Dec 2008  Size: 280kB

Learning journey report February 2007
The second of two learning journeys designed to take soundings from different Scottish perspectives on culture and health. A further six learning jounreys are in planning for the first half of 2009
Date: 22 Dec 2008  Size: 327kB

Wellbeing and 'modern culture' - soundings from Scotland
A first analysis of the key issues which arose from the learning journeys taken in October 06 and February 07
Date: 18 Mar 2009  Size: 309kB

Costing an Arm and a Leg project details
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Costing an Arm and a Leg
A short pamphlet on the causes and consequences of the inexorable rise in spending on healthcare. It argues that current approaches – essentially based on a combination of financial management and demand management – will not be adequate to sustain the UK's National Health Service given deeper systemic drivers that are by no means confined to the UK.
Date: 20 Jun 2010  Size: 379kB

Winter Planning for Health and Social Care project details
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Three Horizons of Winter Planning in Fife
Short report of a workshop and subsequent analysis/ action planning to design promising initiatives to tackle the winter bulge in demand for health and social care in Fife.
Date: 07 Jun 2010  Size: 333kB

Psychological Capacity in a Global Age project details
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Cultural Leadership Programme: A Cultural Leadership Reader
A collection of essays on cultural leadership, including Graham Leicester (IFF Director) on 'Real Cultural Leadership: leading the culture in a time of cultural crisis'.
Date: 19 Jul 2010  Size: 911kB

Kitbag - vital resources in powerful times
Short introductory brochure describing Kitbag and IFF's experience to date in using this transformational tool in a variety of settings including a women's prison, community groups, children.
Date: 23 Oct 2008  Size: 410kB

Psychological Literacy and the Future of HR
Sets out the learning from the project relevant to corporate health, performance and human resources. What constitutes the psychologically healthy corporation, and what competitive advantage might it enjoy?
Date: 28 Aug 2006  Size: 321kB

Psychological Literacy Project
A short paper describing the IFF's psychological literacy project and the development of our 'Human Resource Kit'.
Date: 27 Feb 2006  Size: 1.2MB

Public Health in a Change of Age (presentation: Margaret Hannah)
Short presentation by programme leader Margaret Hannah setting psycholical capacity in the wider context of a 'change of age' bringing new challenges to public health.
Date: 16 May 2009  Size: 445kB

Rising to the Occasion: cultural leadership in powerful times
A report for MMM on the nature of the leadership challenge in powerful times and the role that the arts and cultural sector might play as a setting for developing 21st century competencies.
Date: 29 Jun 2007  Size: 721kB

Glasgow Centre for Population Health project details
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Civic Conversation Briefing Note
A short description of the process and progress to date
Date: 28 Nov 2008  Size: 41kB

Equal Exposure: A Civic Conversation
In addition to a written report and other outputs, the civic converstaion artist in residence, Jennifer Williams produced this viual representation
Date: 28 Nov 2008  Size: 5.0MB

Fifth Wave Learning Journeys
Report of a series of learning journeys exploring innovation in public health. Background research for the fifth wave report.
Date: 28 Aug 2006  Size: 140kB

Miniature Glasgow
A short film to download in which Glasgow is imagined as a village of 100 people.
Date: 07 Jan 2009  Size: 24kB

The Fifth Wave
A report compiled by IFF converger Andrew Lyon outlining the possibility of a new wave of transformation in public health, drawing on hidden resources within the health and caring professions.
Date: 28 Aug 2006  Size: 326kB

Towards a Resilient City - Civic Conversation report
The first written report from the Civic Conversation begun in Glasgow in 2007
Date: 25 Nov 2009  Size: 200kB

What Then Shall We Do? project details
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Event summary and sound file link
This summary of the event also provides a link to the sound file so that you can listen to the whole event yourself.
Date: 02 Dec 2008  Size: 40kB

Mental Health and Climate Change project details
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Climate Change and Mental Health
A brief discussion paper prepared as an introduction and stimulation for an online conference on climate change and mental health hosted by the Mental Health Foundation in January 2005.
Date: 04 Apr 2007  Size: 112kB

Policy Learning project details
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Policy Learning
This pamphlet advances a simple thesis. In order to flourish in today’s complex and fast-changing world we need to become a learning intensive society. Government cannot support that move unless the policy process itself reflects the theory and practice of lifelong learning it seeks to encourage in others. This is the case for ‘policy learning’.
Date: 02 Mar 2006  Size: 779kB

Policy Learning - European Journal article
An article on policy learning by Graham Leicester published in the European Journal of Education special edition on futures of learning in June 2007.
Date: 24 Jun 2007  Size: 107kB

Three Horizons project details
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Journal of Futures Studies article on three horizons method
An article by IFF member Tony Hodgson and friend and colleague Andrew Curry of Henley Centre Headlight Vision on the theory and practice of the three horizons method, published in autumn 2008 in the Journal of Futures Studies.
Date: 12 Dec 2008  Size: 234kB

Three horizons of education policy in Scotland
The record of a workshop in March 2007 in Scotland using the three horizons framework to structure a conversation about the failings of today's system, a vision of a more desirable future, and the innovations - existing and potential - that might ease the passage from one to the other.
Date: 15 Aug 2008  Size: 586kB

Three horizons of financial services
An alternative three horizons template suitable for shorter discussions, formatted around four boxes. This one records discussion about the future of financial services in an increasingly digital age.
Date: 15 Aug 2008  Size: 289kB

Social Innovation project details
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Alison Elliot's Presentation
Presentation on faith-based social innovation given by Alison Elliot in the Scottish Parliament on 26 June 2006.
Date: 14 Aug 2006  Size: 1.1MB

Report of Alison Elliot seminar 27 June 2006
Report of the seminar held to discuss Alison Elliot's presentation on 'the spirit of social innovation' in the Scottish Parliament on 26 June.
Date: 14 Aug 2006  Size: 370kB

Report of Geoff Mulgan seminar 3 March 2006
Report of the seminar held on 3 March to discuss Geoff Mulgan's lecture the previous evening in the Scottish Parliament.
Date: 14 Aug 2006  Size: 47kB

Report of Irene McAra-McWilliam Seminar 8 December 2006
A record of the seminar with Prof Irene McAra-McWilliam, head of design at Glasgow School of Art, following her lecture in Edinburgh on 7 December.
Date: 20 Dec 2006  Size: 151kB

The Spirit of Social Innovation
Alison Elliot's lecture in the Scottish Parliament, 26 June 2006. Sets out the faith-based approach to social innovation.
Date: 28 Aug 2006  Size: 359kB

Economies of Life project details
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Economies of Life
A collection of five essays by Bill Sharpe exploring the principles of ecological and economical thinking and their relationship. The essays consider – with poetic sensitivity and intellectual clarity – what keeps each of the many economies he identifies healthy, what sort of wealth each one accumulates and what sort of policies are most supportive of innovation and sustainability in a changing world. This is a text-only version of the publication for download. The full published version with figures and illustrations is available from the gift shop.
Date: 28 Apr 2010  Size: 1.0MB

Producing the Future: understanding Watershed's role in ecosystems of cultural innovation
A short report exploring how the ideas in Bill Sharpe's set of essays 'Economies of Life: patterns of health and wealth' resonate with the creative practice of Watershed Media Centre in Bristol, UK and will help to extend and develop their conscious cultural innovation. The report also includes a chapter on how policy might better support such work and help to sustain innovation in the arts and cultural sector.
Date: 26 Jun 2010  Size: 2.0MB

My Future’s in Falkirk project details
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Falkirk's Future case encounter
Report from the IFF's initial visit to Falkirk in April 2002 and subsequent analysis of how to ensure that BP's decision to downsize its workforce acted as a spur for economic transformation.
Date: 30 Nov 2005  Size: 1.3MB

The Extended Economy: Flexible Working, Growth and the Edinburgh City Region project details
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Background and Evidence
A companion volume to The Extended Economy detailing evidence, research, analysis and the results of interviews with key players in the City region. Also contains a useful bibiography on flexible working.
Date: 24 Jan 2006  Size: 656kB

The Extended Economy
The final report from the project suggesting that flexible working needs to take its place as part of a broader view of the economy in the Edinbutrgh City Region, one that will ease the strains of economic growth on the area. Note that there is a separate volume with background, evidence and analysis.
Date: 24 Jan 2006  Size: 655kB

Supporting a Healthy Ecosystem of the Arts and Culture project details
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Homo Poeticus and the Art of Culture
Working paper prepared for a workshop in May 2007 exploring some of the core ideas and foundational concepts that might underpin the notion of an 'ecology of the arts'.
Date: 06 Nov 2007  Size: 203kB

Producing the Future: understanding Watershed's role in ecosystems of cultural innovation
A short report exploring how the ideas in Bill Sharpe's set of essays 'Economies of Life: patterns of health and wealth' resonate with the creative practice of Watershed Media Centre in Bristol, UK and will help to extend and develop their conscious cultural innovation. The report also includes a chapter on how policy might better support such work and help to sustain innovation in the arts and cultural sector.
Date: 26 Jun 2010  Size: 2.0MB

The Economy of Art
A companion piece to 'Homo Poeticus and the Art of Culture' unpicking notions of 'value', 'property' and 'economy' in a wider, systemic context.
Date: 11 Sep 2008  Size: 92kB

Meeting Don Michael project details
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Don Michael Bibliography
A bibliography of Don Michael's work from the 1950s to the time of his death in 2000, compiled by Cynthia Selin and Napier Collyns.
Date: 18 May 2010  Size: 155kB

In Search of the Missing Elephant
A collection of five essays by Don Michael with an introduction by Graham Leicester in a low graphics, text only version for free download. The printed publication, from Triarchy Press, is available from the IFF giftshop. It is beautifully illustrated by Heather Fallows. You can also find out more about the publication, including the essays selected, on the giftshop pages.
Date: 15 May 2010  Size: 1.1MB

Meeting Don Michael: a learning journey in five scenes
Presentation given by Graham Leicester reflecting on Don Michael's work over forty years - written in the form of a series of interviews with the man himself.
Date: 17 Jun 2009  Size: 81kB

Governance of the Long Term: Radioactive Waste Management project details
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Nirex strategy mural
Nirex past, near present and future strategy mural, one of the products of the programme of support for Nirex thinking through the intractable issues of waste management over long timescales
Date: 19 Nov 2007  Size: 3.9MB

The Art of Better Giving: social entrepreneuring and the future of philanthropy project details
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The Art of Better Giving
A discussion paper on the challenges to effective philanthropy in a complex world, and some ideas about new models and modes for spending money to greater effect.
Date: 10 Jan 2006  Size: 68kB

Scottish Parliament: Scotland’s Futures Forum project details
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Commissariat General du Plan note on the Scottish initiative
One of a series of notes on futures initiatives in governments prepared by the French government followoing participation in the IFF event on 6 Decmeber 2004.
Date: 24 Nov 2005  Size: 342kB

Five Centuries of the Future: Eamonn Kelly, GBN
Eamonn Kelly's address to the 6 December event in the Parliament outlining five challenges for the future and Scotland's possible contribution.
Date: 13 Sep 2005  Size: 153kB

Seven Prompts: a report for the Scottish Parliament
Document prepared for the Parliament recording lessons from other futures initiatives and giving seven prompts to guide their own. Discussed at 6 December 2004 all day event.
Date: 13 Sep 2005  Size: 114kB

IFF1: April 2001, St Andrews, Scotland   meeting details
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IFF1 Meeting Report
Full record of this first meeting of the International Futures Forum.
Date: 28 Aug 2006  Size: 1.1MB

Points of Departure
A summary note on the reasons for hope and the causes for concern about the state of the world from participants in advance of the first IFF meeting. A fascinating snapshot.
Date: 28 Aug 2006  Size: 128kB

IFF2: November 2001, St Andrews and Dundee, Scotland   meeting details
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Hope and Fear discussion
Extract from the full meeting report in which Brian Goodwin introduces the love and fear loops that have since come to play a large part in IFF's theory and practice.
Date: 19 Jul 2009  Size: 75kB

IFF2 Meeting Report
A record of the second IFF plenary meeting, November 2001
Date: 19 Jul 2009  Size: 1.3MB

The Enlightened Corporation? - the evolving role of business
Report of a workshop held at IFF2 on the evolving role of business over the next ten years and the increasing expectations on business to behave in an enlightened manner.
Date: 28 Aug 2006  Size: 294kB

IFF3: April 2002, St Andrews, Scotland   meeting details
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IFF3 Dundee Learning case encounter
Report of IFF's case encounter to explore the challenges involved in encouraging people to take up the learning opporunities available in a city apparently turned off from learning.
Date: 23 Aug 2007  Size: 708kB

IFF3 Falkirk/Grangemouth Economy case encounter
Report of IFF's case encounter to explore the challenges of transforming the local Falkirk/Grangemouth economy in the face of BP's necessary restructuring at Grangemouth refinery.
Date: 26 May 2006  Size: 1.3MB

IFF3 Fife Health case encounter
Report of IFF's case encounter in Fife exploring the challenges of tackling health inequalities in a region where the majority of poor people do not live in poor communities.
Date: 23 Aug 2007  Size: 757kB

Journal of Futures Studies article on Falkirk case encounter
A short essay about IFF's Falkirk case encounter in a special issue of the Journal of Futures Studies dedicated to action research.
Date: 26 May 2006  Size: 1.8MB

IFF7: February 2006, India   meeting details
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IFF7 India Report
Governance, leadership and social change in India: a full report of the IFF's seventh plenary session in India (Delhi and Varanasi) in February 2006.
Date: 25 May 2006  Size: 918kB

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