For individuals and collectives alike, the task to fully embrace an alternative episteme in which Diversity becomes truly a tenet and communing education a vehicle for the how and where of organizational education has to be seen as demanding in various ways. Currently, still, both the mainstream (university-based) education and (educational) practices in organizations are happening within dominant neoliberal, individualistic, ableist, extractivist, and meritocratic frames, which are deeply interwoven not only in the fabric and make up of our societal institutions but also embodied by its social actors whose legitimate peripheral participation (Giddens, 1984; Wenger, 1998;) serve to reify the conditions and structures under which this participation occurs. How people learn and behave in the present moment is likely to be a projection of how people will learn and behave in the Future. This paper argues that both organizational as well as higher education can profit from a framework and process that is theoretically grounded and practically applicable and which has the potential to support the development of Future Consciousness among (groups of) people from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews – Future Consciousness understood here as a heightened awareness of the future potential of the present moment (Sharpe, 2013). The practice of Three Horizons (Sharpe et al., 2016) and its accompanying theoretical concept of the Anticipatory Present Moment (Sharpe & Hodgson, 2019) can be used to both guide people into such a new onto-epistemological terrain and understand how people make sense and act towards maintaining or transforming the Future in the present moment. The presentation will introduce the aforementioned practice and theoretical concept and portray how it has been used in the design of a new Master Program on Inclusion and Transformation in Organizations and how it is being used as a cohering didactical principle to support educational practitioners from diverse fields and organizational contexts to anticipate and co-create new ways of organizing for more diverse and inclusive futures (Koenig, 2022).

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