Participants being interviewed on campus at Egrove Park after taking the Oxford Scenarios Programme, interspersed with footage from the classroom and across campuses in Oxford.

Tomas Studenik, CEO of Insane Business Ideas S.R.O and programme participant - It was great to come back on campus after two years of seeing just pixels instead of real people, and it was so refreshing.

Marika Aleksieieva, Results Monitoring Analyst at UNFPA and programme participant - Getting to meet and interact in real life over coffee, over dinner, on a walking tour of Oxford, was amazing.

Chelsea Cheng, Assistant Director at MIT and programme participant - I think what I was particularly drawn to, was the client, life client case study, which would really help me ground that learning in a particular context and to stress test some of my learnings and just put it into play.

Marika Aleksieieva - The Oxford approach challenges me and challenges us learners to look into the unknown, to push the boundaries into what's even remotely plausible and can still happen.

Devrajan Bala, Commander in Singapore Police Force and programme participant - I thought it was a great opportunity to go back to the university to get a different perspective, to understand about what the rest of different sectors people are looking at when it comes to scenarios so that I wouldn't be looking at scenarios purely from the police perspective. So that that has been really a different experience.

Tomas Studenik - It challenged me enormously. It made me stretch my thinking into some of the factors in the world around me that are underlying what's happening and which you cannot immediately touch and feel every day.

Marika Aleksieieva - I think the amount of information and learnings I'm taking forward with me from this few days in the programme, is beyond what I expected.

Chelsea Cheng - You know, being able to stress test my own thinking and assumptions of what scenarios should be, I think it's been a really refreshing take.

Margherita Massazza, Foresight Project Officer at AXA and programme participant - The interactions, the flexibility of the programme, and also learning from all the participants at the same time, that was really going beyond what I expected.

Tomas Studenik - Every day confronted me with the unknown and so I had lots of impulses in terms of learning.

Devrajan Bala - Being in a company of people from all walks of life, was really the biggest takeaway for me.

Marieka Aleksieieva - Being there in the classroom with Rafael and getting that direct feedback was super beneficial for my learning and is definitely one of the very memorable moments.

Margherita Massazza - Having the learning and the perspectives from other experts of different fields was invaluable, especially because maybe it's some knowledge that we, that I wouldn't normally be exposed to in my company or outside. So that was absolutely key.

Chelsea Cheng - For me, there was a lot of learning and as well as a lot of unlearning. Back home, given that we are a futures unit, and we definitely do have some sort of frameworks in place, but they are vastly different from what I have learned from this programme.

Margherita Massazza - Opportunities for engagement with faculty were incredible.

Devrajan Bala - It was not too overly controlled by the facilitators. They knew exactly when to chip in and when to stay back and allowing the group to, you know, get into our moment and look into issues and the discussions.

Tomas Studenik - This is the place where our lives intersected. You make the connections and we already started planning some common maybe projects, even trips and the way how we are gonna share knowledge and develop our own trajectories in life.

Chelsea Cheng - I've met a lot of people from, you know, all parts of the world, from different organisations and careers. I think that has helped to enhance my own learning. But I think everything, you know, came together really nicely, the interactions, the learnings, the life client case studies.

Margherita Massazza - Talking to the people formally and informally and getting a bit more advanced perspectives on it, it was great, especially I got of the different levels of expertise and different industries that were in the programme. And I would say there was a good balance among all the moments, so the learning, the group work, and also the more social aspects; so interacting outside of the classroom.

Devrajan Bala - It has shown me that the process works, right. It showed me that if you put your mind into it and you look at the frameworks and you put in the tools that were given to us, I think it's something that can be done.

Chelsea Cheng - Three words that I would use to describe the programme would be, it's thrilling, it's challenging, and also it's very satisfying, yeah.

Tomas Studenik - International, you meet lots of people from around the world. Then challenging because it's very hard to keep going for five days nonstop from morning till evening. And the last one is collaborative, collaboration. It's a process where you need to involve the others and the most interesting part of the programme is what happens within groups and group efforts when you present in front of real life clients at the end of the programme.

Devrajan Bala - I would say the learning, the networking, and the weather would be the three things that struck me the most from this week long programme that I had. Getting into Oxford was really a feeling of being away from home and an opportunity to learn and it's been really great. The last week has been outstanding.