Laura Nissen is one of the most exciting and visionary voices in the field of foresight, and her new book Anticipatory Social Work is destined to become a classic and beloved resource for all who seek to make a better future. It's a guide to cultivating the future confidence and imagination we all need to envision social problems and solutions in new ways. It's full of tools and methodologies to help social workers do the important work they have to do in a rapidly changing world. This book is imaginative, innovative and important. * Jane McGonigal, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Imaginable: How to Create a Hopeful Future-in Your Own Life, Your Community, the World * Dr. Laura Nissen's Anticipatory Social Work transforms our traditionally reactive profession into one that proactively shapes its future. This forward-thinking text provides educators and practitioners with essential foresight tools to envision and create the practice and policy futures we want. For professors, it offers a new framework for inspiring students to think innovatively about social work's possibilities. * Melanie Sage, PhD, MSW, Director, Sage Training and Consulting * A masterpiece in a category of its own by a gifted futurist whose work is grounded in hope, empathy, courage, love, beauty, and limitless possibilities with a proposition that we are collectively 100% of the future. Indeed, Social Work is a force inherently futuristic and intimately linked to the futures of humanity and generations to come. Dr. Nissens invitation to engage in the ideals and tools of anticipatory foresight to re-imagine and re-invest in the future of social work reflects this remarkable historic time in our human history and the extraordinary responsibility of social work as a profession for all planet life. * Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi, MSW, PhD, President and CEO, Council on Social Work Education * In Anticipatory Social Work, Dr. Laura Nissen challenges social workers to engage critically with the future through participatory foresight. By examining our professions past and potential, this book equips social workers with innovative tools to navigate and address emerging social issues, empowering us to envision and co-create transformative futures for the communities and individuals we serve * Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW, Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor of Social Policy and Communications, PIK Professor, Chief Strategy Officer, and SAFElab Director, University of Pennsylvania * This new text is both important and inspirational. What sets Dr. Nissen's work apart here is a deep centering on the social work imagination. This is a call to more fully understand not just our present, but also our shared futures. This is crucial for the social work profession and for the environment we seek to improve. * Stephen Cummings, MSW Program Director, Clinical Associate Professor, Social Work, University of Iowa *
