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ABOUT US ASSOCIATION EVENTS COMMUNITY RESOURCES JOIN US MEMBERS AREA MORE Become part of our community and let professional foresight guide your decisions to positively impact the future. Learn more about our Mission Register Help Make Change Become a Member OUR PRINCIPLES The following principles will guide the behaviors of APFs Board partners and members Collaboration IntergenerationalEquity Openness Professionalism OUR PURPOSE APF aims to advance the practice of professional Foresight by fostering a dynamic global diverse and collaborative community of professional futurists and those committed to Futures Thinking who expand the understanding use and impact of foresight in service to their stakeholders and the world. FUTURES FUTURES THINKING Futures thinking is not about crystal ball gazing or prophesizing to predict the future but rather it is a transdisciplinary or metaapproach to studying possible probable and preferable futures. Futures thinking is a rational creative reflective and contemplative process of engaging citizens to be aware of and to question their ways of anticipating the future to create contingencies alternatives strategies to innovate and transform today.