Oversight happens. NAVA vision reveals what has been overlooked, misunderstood or omitted.
Foresight sense what is emerging and moves early and softly.
Hindsight gives us delayed reflection that comes with grace and lifts the weight that has trapped us.
Insight, sees all of these layers and the connections that carry across timelines.
Intergenerational Trauma
Emerging from trauma or crisis towards relief
Intergenerational Belonging
Ending of cycles and new beginnings.
Intergenerational Longing
Craving rhythm over urgency
Intergenerational Vision
Shaping the future for what is next.
Why four visions and not one?
One vision can become rigid. Four-Seeing uses four sights to keep judgment flexible and accurate. Multiple perspectives improve forecasting and decision quality, and help you avoid blind spots and bias [2][3][4].
I already have a purpose and a why. Why would I need four visions?
Keep your purpose. Four-Seeing is the scaffold that keeps it humane. Oversight checks what you missed, foresight scans what is emerging, hindsight keeps learning alive, and insight links the pattern. This reduces burnout risk from rigid, calling-style purpose and increases psychological flexibility [1][8].
What do insight, foresight, hindsight, and oversight mean?
Oversight: missing or omitting a detail. Humans regularly fail to notice obvious events when attention is elsewhere, known as inattentional blindness [4].
Foresight: anticipating what could happen and acting early. Training and teaming can measurably improve probabilistic foresight [2][3].
Hindsight: reflection after events, with a known risk of hindsight bias changing how we judge past decisions [5].
Insight: a sudden or rapid grasp of the pattern or solution, with distinct cognitive and neural signatures [6].
Why is Four-Seeing important in rough times?
Because weight goes up when life gets hard. Four-Seeing helps you balance past, present and future so vision stays light and usable. A balanced time perspective and psychological flexibility are both linked with greater wellbeing and resilience [7][8].
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