Rhiannon Jones
Strategic Futures and FemTech enthusiast
London UK
London UK
Creatives & Forecasters seek to envision
futures but need new methods and mindsets
in a changing world. We created a framework
to help you elevate your foresight work
and author a regenerative future.
Lead the new era of future foresight
Everyone has ‘the future of’ at the tip of their tongue.
The field of future foresight is at the center of influencing culture, design, media, marketing, policy, innovation all the way to services.
Learning and perfecting future forecasting methods and principles has never been so vital for creatives and foresight professionals, given the complexity of our world.
But all too often, we feel a lack of access to peers to grow with, ongoing education and resources that empower our development and vision for a sustainable world. We have a sense of responsible guardianship over our planet's future.
The intersectionality of our challenges, both professional and ethical mean our work can feel all consuming. The lack of support for our specific needs can cost us years, especially when trying to figure things out on our own and without peers to exchange with.
Trend Atelier is a community and education hybrid platform. We usher in a new era of regenerative approaches and support systems for future forecasters and futuring creatives. Our mission is to fuel your development, empower your role in this evolving world, and prepare you for the next era of future foresight.
Reach your potential
Working alone, we often lack a framework for reaching our goals, and the feedback of a community.
Even when working within a team, a diversity of future insights, methods and personal connections is essential.
Trend Atelier provides the inspiration, motivation, tools and supportive network that help you reach new levels of insights and skills. Underpinning this is a deep care for the future or our planet and people.
The World Building Framework
World Building is our overarching framework* with 4 key pillars essential to empower and equip future forecasters and creatives who want to elevate their skills and mission.
Each pillar defines the regenerative foresight journey we deliver for our community members:
- Mission Vision
- Methods Principles
- Inside Out Sustainability
- Expression Influence
Click the icons to discover our 4 pillars.
MISSION VISION - Clarify your Mission. This is your compass for personal, professional development, and lays the Vision for the future.
Misson-Vision
METHODS PRINCIPLES: Learn the tools and frameworks to apply regenerative and impactful future foresight
Methods-Principles
INSIDE OUT SUSTAINABILITY: Sustainability starts with how you treat yourself. Connect with your values and redefine your productivity
Inside Out Sustainability
EXPRESSION INFLUENCE: Nurture your futures leadership, self expression and presentation skills so that you can make an impact.
Expression-Influence
Learning Ateliers
In a Learning Atelier, you can immerse yourself at your own pace and embed a pillar of the World Building Framework into your foresight practice. We host a mix of live events, pre-recorded lessons, collective inspiration spaces, tools and resources to ensure you grow.
Futuring Journeys
A Futuring journey is a manageable step-by-step guide designed to help you reach a specific goal. For example: How to present a future forecast, How to organise your research, Regenerative metrics for evaluating trends, Ways of prototyping a future scenario or How to manage your time.
Collective Intelligence
On our platform accessible both on desktop and phone, learn from the signals of change shared by our creative and futuring community members in our collective intelligence space. This is a feed of diverse insights inspired by:
- Shifting cultural paradigms
- Pioneering innovations
- Disruptive ideas and projects
- Macro forces impacting trends on a global and local level
Future Vision Themes
This is where we ideate on solutions and visionary insights around specific themes that matter to our community. Co-creation is a direct product of our futuring culture.
Live discussions, future forecast presentations and asynchronous discussions in our community feed provide a grasp of the global challenges and solutions for our societies and creative industries.
Our future trend presentations prioritise on thought provoking ideas and interactivity. We ask the questions: how might we adapt? What are the wild cards and possible futures ahead?
Networking & Events
On our platform, we have all the social networking features you need to make meaningful connections. This includes direct messaging, group chat and forums to share future foresight ideas, ask for feedback on your research and projects. We are your first point of call to lean on.
Our community members host their own events and interest groups. The event programming reflects our collective passion for innovation, discussion, regenerative futures and our members' evolving interests.
The World Building Framework
is an integral part of our
United Nations membership
and SDG commitments
So... How does it work?
Take a look insideLearn from me and the Trend Atelier community
Hi, Geraldine Wharry here. I am a futurist, educator and futures designer, founder of Trend Atelier.
I help forecasters and creatives reach their full potential and mission to drive change. After years of climate change and sustainability advocacy whilst advising organisations in the creative industry, I've learnt I'm obsessed with community.
Through hundreds of conversations, I've also learnt forecasters and futuring creatives need a full spectrum of support: from practical tools to accomplish complex tasks to self care rituals that breed creativity, from asking for what you're worth to fulfilling your sense of purpose.
As humans, we grow through shared actualisation and exchange much more than a self paced course, or one workshop, as helpful as they can be.
Regenerative Future foresight, as the most significant approach to futures tackling the greatest challenges of our time, requires inspiration, creativity, study, experimentation, time and support.
The best way to do this is by learning and succeeding together.
Meet some of our members
Abbey Cook
Trend Forecaster / Co-Founder The Taste Curators
Alina Schartner
Design + Colour Consultant / Trend Forecaster
Aude Penouty
Bleader Bcorp™ / Sustainable product dev / systemic researcher / Speaker / Founder Entada Textile
Barbara Strabel-Horbacz
Product + innovation designer / Trend researcher
Gdańsk Poland
Bianca Carague
Artist / Designer / World Builder
Netherlands
Diane Wallinger
Digital Fashion Designer / Creative Consultant
Gemma Hardy
Designer / Creative Researcher
Giselle Da Costa
Textile Designer / Strategist / Trend Forecaster
Kate Monro
Writer / Street anthropologist
Lilian Marino
Strategist / Researcher / Forecaster
Luisa Ferreira
Trends Researcher / Strategist
Nayara Moia
UI/UX Designer
Sweden
Odeta Jacė
Next-gen digital experiences strategist / fashiontech expert / Founder Storyfounders / Tech project manager IBM
Rachael Taylor
Fashion Academic / Artist / Podcast Host / Designing alternative economies
Location
Rumi Josephs
Trend Forecaster
London
Sonthia Coleman
Fashion Merchandiser / Forecaster / Fashion Psychology
Tsveti Enlow
Future Trend Forecaster
Location
Yvonne Richardson
Innovation strategist / Lecturer
Our culture of creating a safe space
We have created a culture of feeling welcomed and supported.
Here's a peek at the values and guidelines we take to heart.
Kindness
Be kind and only use constructive dialog. Support others on their journey as we navigate transitional times.
Authenticity
There is space for you in whichever way you want to use the community whether you like being active in the chats or behind the scenes.
Privacy
Respect the privacy of others and of your projects where applicable. Please do not share anyone’s personal information outside our platform.
Focus
Keep discussions relevant. This is a community about Future Foresight, with a specific interest on creativity, design, sustainability, the greater good of the people and planet.
Respect
Behave professionally that means with respect and how you would want to be treated in your work and as a human being.
Diversity
Be respectful to others’ viewpoints, even when they differ from your own. We cherish plurality.
"Having people who are like minded I come away from every call feeling more passionate, more emboldened and with a deeper understanding of the job we are doing. It’s a job that is all encompassing it takes so much from you, your creativity, your strategic mind."
Choose Your Plan
With your people, your place to exchange, learn and grow
Quarterly or Annual billing. Save 18% with the annual billing (that's 2 months free)
VISIONNAIRE MEMBERSHIP
3 month plan
£237
Includes:
Access to our entire Future Vision forecast presentations, slides, insights. As well as all of our foresight lectures & workshops.
Our live sessions cover future foresight methods, Future Vision macro trends, Work/Life coaching sessions, Member led events and more. We average between 2 to 4 events a month. Replays are made available for members who can't attend.
Full access to our Learning Ateliers each covering a pillar of the World Building Framework: (1) Mission Vision, (2) Methods Principles, (3) Inside Out Sustainability, (4) Expression Influence. All Lectures from the Forecast Like a Futurist Mastercourse are included within these 4 pillars.
Futuring journeys customised to reach a future forecasting goal, with step by step instructions and guidance, done on your own time and asynchronously. Certificate of Completion of Futuring Journeys.
Collective Intelligence, Future Trend Reports and Share events spaces where the community shares insights.
Work/Life calls to coach members on day to day or bigger picture challenges for futuring creatives and foresight professionals
Ask for Feedback space to get input on your work and ideas.
DM messaging to network with members, Say Hello and Featured Members spaces to enagage with your community
Members regularly host their own events in the community such as (for example) reading clubs, event highlights, workshops. We also have a Shared Interests space.
The community is where Geraldine is the most active via DM and events and consistently engaging with Trend Atelier members. She also provides guidance during our Work/ Life calls.
INDIVIDUAL COURSE
1 time payment
£389
Includes:
Our comprehensive flagship course ‘Forecast Like a Futurist' includes 6 modules with videos, transcripts, resources, downloadables and exercises
Learn the Hunt Identify Gather methodology developed by Geraldine and adopted around the world
Courses are only available in English
Certificate of completion available
VISIONNAIRE MEMBERSHIP
Save 18% with annual payment (that's 2 months free).
Email for our Student & Educator discount.
Email for our Student & Educator discount.
£790
Includes:
The Forecast Like a Futurist Mastercourse , our full workshop catalog, the World Building Framework and full access to our Future Vision reports
Monthly events on future trends, forecasting methods and philosophies. This includes our quarterly Future Vision forecasts, expert guest panels and member led events.
Learning Ateliers to master your Mission Vision, Methods Principles, Inside Out Sustainability and Expression Influence. Combine the power of community with innovative online course curricula with tutorials, personal support, supplemental documentation, inspiration libraries.
Futuring Journeys which are manageable step-by-step guides to help you accelerate your future foresight work and regenerative approaches.
Collective Intelligence spaces where our community members share future insights, ask for feedback, post jobs and offers, form interest groups.
Future Vision spaces dedicated to specific future trends. Examples include: Care Futures, Beyond the New, Degrowth and Capitalism Futures, Web3 & Meta Objects, Humane Tech, The Future of Forecasting to name a few.
Work Life calls with Geraldine to get support on day-to-day and bigger picture challenges. These calls are made accessible to the community so we can all benefit.
All messaging features to network with members including DM and Group chat.
Accreditation: Certificate of Completion of Futuring Journeys
DIY OPTION: FORECAST LIKE A FUTURIST COURSE
One time payment
£389
Includes:
6 modules averaging 8 to 12 lectures each
Accreditation: Certificate of Completion
Access the learnings in various formats: video, text, transcripts + Downloadable Mp3s + live sessions
Downloadable templates and libraries
Language: English
Average completion time: 30 hours
"The resources and knowledge that are available, we are able to explore so many things, which is very enriching. I have been inspired. I feel the Trend Atelier is a safe space for me. We can always find support. We are not judged for exploring disruptive ways of approaching the industry."
Koura Rosy Kane
Future Trend researcher + forecaster, writer and curator, Founder of PLATFORM
France Senegal
France Senegal
"I've really enjoyed being in the community because there's not just designers, there are trend forecasters, teachers, different creatives. We're sharing our thoughts AND I love hearing the different perspectives. It gives me an opportunity to challenge and question myself."
Nalini Arora
Footwear & Accessory Design Consultant,
Founder of LAShoeGirl
Los Angeles USA
Founder of LAShoeGirl
Los Angeles USA
A new wave of future foresight is here
Powered by collective intelligence, regenerative principles, tools and resources.
Welcome to Trend Atelier.
To recap, here is what is inside.
Extensive Futuring Resources
Trend Atelier's praised catalog of materials, Insights presentations, workshops, panels.
Clear Foresight Framework
The World Building Framework to influence and action regenerative innovation by recalibrating your future foresight methods, mindsets and strategies.
Collective Intelligence
Shared insights, future trend signals and discussions on cultural and behavioural shifts, systems change, technology, sustainability, the future human, new economic models to name a few of our community's interests.
Guided Education
Futuring journeys and Learning Ateliers to learn on your own time or with the community.
Events Program
Events to develop your foresight skills, future insights, regenerative methods + philosophies.
Inspired Collective
A diverse and inspired community coming together around a shared goal.
Choose Your Plan
Learn and grow to reach your full potential as a futuring creative.
Quarterly or Annual billing for our membership.
Save 16% with the annual billing (that's 2 months free)
Save 16% with the annual billing (that's 2 months free)
VISIONNAIRE MEMBERSHIP
3 month plan
£237
Includes:
Access to entire lecture & workshop catalog. Lectures from our Forecast Like a Futurist Mastercourse are included
Monthly sessions on highly requested foresight ideas and methods and member led events
Access to 4 Learning Ateliers each covering a key pillar of Regenerative Foresight: Mission, Methods, Inside Out Sustainability, Influence
Futuring journeys customised to reach your goal, with step by step instructions and guidance, at a manageable pace.
Collective Intelligence to benefit from our community's shared future insights as well as a Feedback space
Work Life calls to coach members on day to day and bigger picture challenges for futuring creatives and foresight professionals
Member led events
All messaging features to network with members
Accreditation: Certificate of Completion of Futuring Journeys
Additional features available in 2023. Stay tuned.
INDIVIDUAL COURSE
1 time payment
£389
Includes:
Our flagship course ‘Forecast Like a Futurist
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VISIONNAIRE MEMBERSHIP
Save 18% with annual payment (that's 2 months free).
Email for our Student & Educator discount.
Email for our Student & Educator discount.
£790
Includes:
The Forecast Like a Futurist Mastercourse , our full workshop catalog, the World Building Framework and full access to our Future Vision reports
Monthly events on future trends, forecasting methods and philosophies. This includes our quarterly Future Vision forecasts, expert guest panels and member led events.
Learning Ateliers to master your Mission Vision, Methods Principles, Inside Out Sustainability and Expression Influence. Combine the power of community with innovative online course curricula with tutorials, personal support, supplemental documentation, inspiration libraries.
Futuring Journeys which are manageable step-by-step guides to help you accelerate your future foresight work and regenerative approaches.
Collective Intelligence spaces where our community members share future insights, ask for feedback, post jobs and offers, form interest groups.
Future Vision spaces dedicated to specific future trends. Examples include: Care Futures, Beyond the New, Degrowth and Capitalism Futures, Web3 & Meta Objects, Humane Tech, The Future of Forecasting to name a few.
Work Life calls with Geraldine to get support on day-to-day and bigger picture challenges. These calls are made accessible to the community so we can all benefit.
All messaging features to network with members including DM and Group chat.
All messaging features to network with members
Accreditation: Certificate of Completion of Futuring Journeys
Additional will roll out in 2023. Stay tuned.
DIY OPTION: FORECAST LIKE A FUTURIST COURSE
One time payment
£389
Includes:
6 modules averaging 8 to 12 lectures each
Accreditation: Certificate of Completion
Access the learnings in various formats: video, text, transcripts + Downloadable Mp3s + live sessions
Downloadable templates and libraries
Language: English
Average completion time: 30 hours
"The community is something that has really helped me open a pathway that I didn't necessarily think would be there and has exposed me to new possibilities for my own future. That has been an incredible gift, to be a part of a community of strong people who put themselves out there."
Heidi Svendsen
Head of Department Fashion Dynamics- Fashion Lecturer - Trend Researcher
Johannesburg South Africa
Johannesburg South Africa
In their own words
Our best ambassadors are the creatives and professionals who have grown thanks to Trend Atelier.
"Learning the tools to develop your own perspectives about the future makes it that much more exciting. You learn to develop tools to critically analise big social issues. This course was fundamental to the success of my project"
Caitlin Monahan, WGSN strategist, design manager and Managing director of Limbo & Hatch, London UK
"One of the most in-depth online courses I have ever taken. It is very engaging, captivating and it’s complete. All the things you need to learn Geraldine discusses. It’s very insightful and eye opening"
Patrick James Almera, Interdisciplinary Architect, Designer, Creative Director, & Founder of ACIIID agency, Manila Philippines
"I have been working in trend research for 7 years and the course helped me organise my research and sources, become more focused. The methodologies Geraldine taught us were very interesting and I felt very supported"
Nayara Moia, Future strategy & consumer behaviour consultant, Brazil & Sweden
"You have that community essence with consultants, futurists. A lot of us share similar business journeys, struggles, goals and at the same time you get to discuss and talk."
Mohamed Ismael
Lead Design Consultant, Industrial Design and CMF,
Founder of Manifesto Onirico
Milan Italy
Founder of Manifesto Onirico
Milan Italy
Future Forecasting Insights
Here are the Future trends, values and methods we are exploring as a school and community for future foresight professionals and futuring creatives on a regenerative mission.
