Flexible, modular live training with Dr. Hélène Lavoix
Discover how to transform complex analytical models for political and geopolitical issues into actionable foresight and early-warning insights.
The Blue Lab offers short, focused modules for professionals who want to go further in using their strategic models to anticipate and respond to future challenges. If you do not have a model, we provide one.
The Blue Lab is part of the Red Team Strategic Labs series, a progressive set of advanced training experiences designed by Dr. Hélène Lavoix. Each Lab focuses on specific stages of mastering strategic foresight and warning through graph-based and structural analysis: building, applying, or initiating the craft.
- Green Lab – Initiation.
- Blue Lab – Use an analytical model for advanced foresight and warning for political and geopolitical risks.
- Red Lab – Build and validate your strategic model, then exploit it for advanced foresight and warning for political and geopolitical risks.
Together, the Green, Blue and Red Labs form a complete progression — from initiation to mastery in strategic foresight and warning for political and geopolitical risks.
A Modular Lab for Advanced Practitioners
The Blue Lab is designed for those who already master the foundations of strategic foresight and warning.
Each participant works directly with Dr. Hélène Lavoix on advanced applications of graph-based analysis — either using their own existing model or a model created by Dr. Lavoix: The Future of the Modern State, a 502-node, 1,786-edge analytical framework exploring governance, state evolution, and systemic transformation (see The Chronicles of Everstate).
Modules can be taken independently or combined to create a personalised learning path.
Format and Participation
- Flexibility: Choose your module(s).
- Duration: Each module runs for approximately 3½–4 hours.
- Preparatory work: Kept as minimal as possible. Learn the (free, open source) software used with a tutorial and small exercises provided after registration.
- Cohort size: 1 to 5 participants to ensure interaction and feedback.
- Delivery: Live online sessions combining lectures, guided practice, and discussion.
- Scheduling: Sessions are scheduled flexibly. Modules can run either as individual coaching (starting on demand) or in small cohorts (up to 5 participants) when interest aligns — ensuring both accessibility and quality interaction.
- Please note: Participants must already have a usable analytical model or will work with the demonstration model provided. Graph validation or correction is not included in this Lab.
- Next possible starts:
- Individual sessions: contact us
- Cohort session (up to 5 participants): contact us
The Three Modules
Without revealing proprietary details, each module explores a key analytical dimension:
Module 1 – Strategic leverage points
Not all vulnerabilities matter equally. Not all interventions yield the same impact. By the end of this module, you will identify which elements in your strategic environment have specific influence – and where your actions will have maximum effect, according to objectives.
Module 2 – Temporal dynamics
Change is the essence of life. We must understand how situations evolve over time. What if you could visualise how factors evolve overtime with impact(s) on other factors? What if you could visualise the appearance or disappearance of some factors and some relationships? At the end of this module you will be able to visualise and showcase those dynamic changes.
Module 3 – Warning and communication
Learn to create a warning out of real information and your model. Enhance the odds to see decision-makers paying heed to your warnings and acting on them. By the end of the session, you will know how to produce professional warning products, which are best for decision-makers.
Taken together, these modules provide a complete practical framework for advanced foresight and warning.
Investment
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Who Is It For?
This lab is designed for:
Professionals, analysts, and decision-makers involved in national or international security, risk, and strategy, who:
- Want to enhance their analytical toolkit;
- Seek advanced foresight and warning methodologies;
- Need to understand graph-based analytical approaches and intelligence (e.g. structural analysis);
- Use graph-based analytical approaches and want to deepen their application skills.
Alumni of Red Team Analysis Society online courses will be able to further advance their practice.
How the Blue Lab Differs from the Red Lab
The Red Team Strategic Lab guides participants through the entire process of building and validating their own strategic model, supported by intensive coaching and access to the full online course, and then applies advanced techniques to the strategic model created.
The Blue Lab focuses on applying advanced techniques once a model already exists, in a flexible, modular format.
Register Interest Now / Apply
Applications are open.
Places are limited. Early applications help us form compatible cohorts and secure individual coaching slots.
Fill the form below to register your interest and receive the full programme details (PDF).
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