Danielle
@danielleinflux.bsky.social
Postgrad researcher, strategist, and policy advisor. Advancing strategic visions. Teaching the future. 🇨🇦 🇬🇩 ✊🏾 ♾️
Master of Design (candidate)
https://open.substack.com/pub/daniellepierre/p/how-to-practice-anticipation
Master of Design (candidate)
https://open.substack.com/pub/daniellepierre/p/how-to-practice-anticipation
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Danielle
@danielleinflux.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Join me in my 75 Soft Anticipation challenge and curriculum. Link in bio ✌🏾
What if free trade in North America is not restored? What other foreign policies and diplomatic approaches could nurture Canadian cultural sovereignty without isolating our economy? I explore answers to these questions using strategic foresight scenarios on Substack:
Trading for Keeps, Trading for Culture
Scenarios exploring the future of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)
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November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What if free trade in North America is not restored? What other foreign policies and diplomatic approaches could nurture Canadian cultural sovereignty without isolating our economy? I explore answers to these questions using strategic foresight scenarios on Substack:
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In week 4 of my personal curriculum I am starting to physically feel the effects of change. It takes most people about two months to build positive health habits. I am halfway!
#75soft #anticipation
#75soft #anticipation
How to Practice Anticipation: Week 4 Searching for – Change
Week 4 of this 75-day curriculum is about preparing for the winter ahead
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
In week 4 of my personal curriculum I am starting to physically feel the effects of change. It takes most people about two months to build positive health habits. I am halfway!
#75soft #anticipation
#75soft #anticipation
Check out my latest progress report for my #personalcurriculum and #75soft challenge. Growing my futures literacy and sense of anticipation.
How to Practice Anticipation: Week 3 Searching for + Change
Week 3 of this 75-day gentle reset is about searching for positive changes in ourselves, our present moment, and our environment.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Check out my latest progress report for my #personalcurriculum and #75soft challenge. Growing my futures literacy and sense of anticipation.
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Strategic foresight is an emerging policymaking tool that helps governments prepare for complex future scenarios, strengthening resilience, safeguarding the environment, and boosting performance.
October 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Strategic foresight is an emerging policymaking tool that helps governments prepare for complex future scenarios, strengthening resilience, safeguarding the environment, and boosting performance.
Reposted by Danielle
Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx who rely on screen readers for vision loss deserve equitable access to information, & you can update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx who rely on screen readers for vision loss deserve equitable access to information, & you can update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Time for #75soft weekly reflections. How have you made progress this past week?
👣 Did you move?
💧 Did you drink lots of water?
📖 Did you learn something new?
🔮 Do you have something to look forward to?
#FuturesLiteracy #Anticipation #Proception
👣 Did you move?
💧 Did you drink lots of water?
📖 Did you learn something new?
🔮 Do you have something to look forward to?
#FuturesLiteracy #Anticipation #Proception
October 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Time for #75soft weekly reflections. How have you made progress this past week?
👣 Did you move?
💧 Did you drink lots of water?
📖 Did you learn something new?
🔮 Do you have something to look forward to?
#FuturesLiteracy #Anticipation #Proception
👣 Did you move?
💧 Did you drink lots of water?
📖 Did you learn something new?
🔮 Do you have something to look forward to?
#FuturesLiteracy #Anticipation #Proception
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Is social interaction a tradeoff of autonomy for belonging compared to being alone? New paper by phenom @elainehoan.bsky.social says yes if you're interacting with strangers, no if you're interacting with friends/family. With a romantic partner you gain in both. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Is social interaction a tradeoff of autonomy for belonging compared to being alone? New paper by phenom @elainehoan.bsky.social says yes if you're interacting with strangers, no if you're interacting with friends/family. With a romantic partner you gain in both. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Hey Bluesky I'm looking for input from academics, analysts, designers, and other researchers interested in public policy. I'm investigating social cohesion:
Beyond 'Getting Along': What Social Cohesion Really Mean
Mapping the elements that hold societies together to inspire better action
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hey Bluesky I'm looking for input from academics, analysts, designers, and other researchers interested in public policy. I'm investigating social cohesion:
Check out my latest writing on social cohesion - I am starting a monthly horizon scan that you won't want to miss. #CommonThreads is for anyone working to define, create, and consume social cohesion in #Canada. I use #foresight methods and #futuresthinking.
Common Threads: September Signals of Social Cohesion in Canada
A monthly scan unravelling how Canadians are redefining cohesion
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October 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Check out my latest writing on social cohesion - I am starting a monthly horizon scan that you won't want to miss. #CommonThreads is for anyone working to define, create, and consume social cohesion in #Canada. I use #foresight methods and #futuresthinking.
Progress on my personal curriculum: 5 of 7 movement days completed; who knows how much water; reading How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa; laid out this month's anticipation readings on Substack.
#75Soft #PersonalCurriculum
#75Soft #PersonalCurriculum
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Progress on my personal curriculum: 5 of 7 movement days completed; who knows how much water; reading How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa; laid out this month's anticipation readings on Substack.
#75Soft #PersonalCurriculum
#75Soft #PersonalCurriculum
Join me in my 75 Soft Anticipation challenge and curriculum. Link in bio ✌🏾
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Join me in my 75 Soft Anticipation challenge and curriculum. Link in bio ✌🏾
Completed my first set of Artist Trading Cards as experiments in making futures tangible. Each card carries a simple hand-printed reminder that we hold our futures in our hands.
🤙🏾 Be excellent to each other
👍🏾 Tell the truth
✌🏾 Think about our future
What would yours say?
🤙🏾 Be excellent to each other
👍🏾 Tell the truth
✌🏾 Think about our future
What would yours say?
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Completed my first set of Artist Trading Cards as experiments in making futures tangible. Each card carries a simple hand-printed reminder that we hold our futures in our hands.
🤙🏾 Be excellent to each other
👍🏾 Tell the truth
✌🏾 Think about our future
What would yours say?
🤙🏾 Be excellent to each other
👍🏾 Tell the truth
✌🏾 Think about our future
What would yours say?
Hey Bluesky, I'm looking for input from academics, analysts, designers, and other researchers who are working with #co-experience and #co-presence.
What are your most pressing questions??
What are your most pressing questions??
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hey Bluesky, I'm looking for input from academics, analysts, designers, and other researchers who are working with #co-experience and #co-presence.
What are your most pressing questions??
What are your most pressing questions??
Hey Bluesky I'm looking for input from academics, analysts, designers, and other researchers interested in public policy. I'm investigating social cohesion:
Beyond 'Getting Along': What Social Cohesion Really Mean
Mapping the elements that hold societies together to inspire better action
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hey Bluesky I'm looking for input from academics, analysts, designers, and other researchers interested in public policy. I'm investigating social cohesion:
New LinkedIn page to drive traffic to Substack and generate leads for my startup.
Check it out!
www.linkedin.com/company/dani...
Check it out!
www.linkedin.com/company/dani...
Danielle Nadine Pierre Atelier | LinkedIn
Danielle Nadine Pierre Atelier | Author and researcher of public sector and civil service design, and systems change. PAR, strategic foresight, design. | My research methods include grounded theory, s...
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September 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
New LinkedIn page to drive traffic to Substack and generate leads for my startup.
Check it out!
www.linkedin.com/company/dani...
Check it out!
www.linkedin.com/company/dani...
I just updated my Substack intro post with a link to buy an instructional guide on ✨Future-forward Scales: Designing survey questions.✨
This is for foresight practitioners, researchers, and designers.
You can find it here:
This is for foresight practitioners, researchers, and designers.
You can find it here:
📢Introducing Danielle Nadine Pierre
A self-publication of independent research, writing, and learning about action research, strategic foresight, and design
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September 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I just updated my Substack intro post with a link to buy an instructional guide on ✨Future-forward Scales: Designing survey questions.✨
This is for foresight practitioners, researchers, and designers.
You can find it here:
This is for foresight practitioners, researchers, and designers.
You can find it here:
My latest learning reflection on Futures of Creativity and Compassion, and possible Futures of Toys by 2040.
How to use compassion to create desirable futures
A learning reflection
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September 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
My latest learning reflection on Futures of Creativity and Compassion, and possible Futures of Toys by 2040.
My graduate coursework on #FuturesofToys2040 received an honourable mention in the student awards by the Association of Professional Futurists! 🧸✨
August 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My graduate coursework on #FuturesofToys2040 received an honourable mention in the student awards by the Association of Professional Futurists! 🧸✨
Have you played the #foresight #game Dreams & Disruptions?
Here is a review and reflection on my own experience facilitating a virtual play session.
Here is a review and reflection on my own experience facilitating a virtual play session.
Playing the Cards we are Dealt
Using strategic foresight and imagination to anticipate and adapt to uncertainty
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Have you played the #foresight #game Dreams & Disruptions?
Here is a review and reflection on my own experience facilitating a virtual play session.
Here is a review and reflection on my own experience facilitating a virtual play session.
Love this:
“Rather than treating cognitive biases as flaws, I’ve reframed them as valuable signals that help us understand ourselves better, like a trusted friend helping us navigate uncertainty.”
Thanks to @vickiheart.bsky.social 🩷
“Rather than treating cognitive biases as flaws, I’ve reframed them as valuable signals that help us understand ourselves better, like a trusted friend helping us navigate uncertainty.”
Thanks to @vickiheart.bsky.social 🩷
💫 @designobserver.com challenged me to write an interactive article to answer a question they are grappling with right now...
"The world feels unpredictable, and everyone is overwhelmed. How can I design, create, and lead at a time like this?"
〰️ Take a peek! designobserver.com/how-can-i-de...
"The world feels unpredictable, and everyone is overwhelmed. How can I design, create, and lead at a time like this?"
〰️ Take a peek! designobserver.com/how-can-i-de...
How can I design at a time like this? - DesignObserver
A Pinterest product designer and author helps us each find our answer with a choose-your-own adventure approach to challenging our cognitive biases. Try it out!
designobserver.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Love this:
“Rather than treating cognitive biases as flaws, I’ve reframed them as valuable signals that help us understand ourselves better, like a trusted friend helping us navigate uncertainty.”
Thanks to @vickiheart.bsky.social 🩷
“Rather than treating cognitive biases as flaws, I’ve reframed them as valuable signals that help us understand ourselves better, like a trusted friend helping us navigate uncertainty.”
Thanks to @vickiheart.bsky.social 🩷
Paid subscribers of my publication, daniellepierre.substack.com, get a free downloadable guide to asking and designing future-forward survey questions.
Danielle Nadine Pierre | Substack
Postgraduate Researcher and Policy Advisor in Ontario, Canada. Master of Design candidate at OCAD University. Advancing strategic visions. Teaching the future.
substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Paid subscribers of my publication, daniellepierre.substack.com, get a free downloadable guide to asking and designing future-forward survey questions.