TECHNOLOGY MAY BE THE MEANS - BUT PEOPLE ARE THE POINT
MANKIND AT THE CENTRE OF THE FUTURE
Hi, I’m Tom Meyers – practising osteopath (D.O., MSc. Ost), Fitfull Futures Explorer, founder and international instructor of The Reaset Approach and author of Futurize Yourself and The Futures Effect.
For nearly 20 years, I have worked hands-on with people whose bodies and minds are struggling to keep up with the pressures of modern life. In my clinical practice, I see how rapid change, uncertainty, and chronic stress affect health, wellbeing, resilience, and performance – not only in individuals, but also across workplaces, teams, and organisations.
My keynote talks explore one of the defining yet often overlooked challenges of our time: the growing conflict between biology and culture. As technology advances, work accelerates, and the future becomes more unpredictable, human beings are expected to adapt at a pace our evolutionary wiring was never designed for. The result is a rising burden of stress-related symptoms, fatigue, dysregulation, disconnection, and reduced capacity to flourish.
Through a unique combination of health expertise, clinical insight, and futures thinking, I help audiences understand the human cost of rapid change – and, more importantly, how to respond to it. My talks are engaging, practical, and future-focused, offering fresh insights into resilience, adaptive wellbeing, and what it really means to become fit for the future.
Because the real question is no longer only what the future will bring. It is whether we are preparing ourselves well enough – biologically, psychologically, socially and spiritually – to flourish and thrive in the future.
For nearly 20 years, I have worked hands-on with people whose bodies and minds are struggling to keep up with the pressures of modern life. In my clinical practice, I see how rapid change, uncertainty, and chronic stress affect health, wellbeing, resilience, and performance – not only in individuals, but also across workplaces, teams, and organisations.
My keynote talks explore one of the defining yet often overlooked challenges of our time: the growing conflict between biology and culture. As technology advances, work accelerates, and the future becomes more unpredictable, human beings are expected to adapt at a pace our evolutionary wiring was never designed for. The result is a rising burden of stress-related symptoms, fatigue, dysregulation, disconnection, and reduced capacity to flourish.
Through a unique combination of health expertise, clinical insight, and futures thinking, I help audiences understand the human cost of rapid change – and, more importantly, how to respond to it. My talks are engaging, practical, and future-focused, offering fresh insights into resilience, adaptive wellbeing, and what it really means to become fit for the future.
Because the real question is no longer only what the future will bring. It is whether we are preparing ourselves well enough – biologically, psychologically, socially and spiritually – to flourish and thrive in the future.
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Work once helped us survive and define our identities.
However, as technology transforms work and surpasses our capabilities in tasks that once provided us with a sense of identity, value and purpose, we must cultivate those intrinsic needs from within by futurizing ourselves on purpose to flourish and thrive. |
Here below the extended recorded (post summit) version of my talk The future And I at the Future & AI summit in Belgrado on 5/5/2026
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The future is screaming for y’our attention. In this fast-changing world, neither past nor present but the future has become the key to y’our life, y’our health and wellbeing, and that of the planet on which we all depend. can’t leave the future up to chance (“Que Sera, Sera”), fate (“Whatever will be will be”) or others to decide. The future is your future, and you have to learn to embrace it and pull it towards you through your decisions, choices and actions in the present.
Yes, you might have learned to fear the future. Still, you can unlearn that fear by understanding, learning about and starting to “use the future” better to manage your present. Thus the future, rather than being a stressor, will become a comfort zone1 where you feel at ease and reassured and which you can develop into a source of meaning and purpose. You can do this by seeing the future not as some unknown destiny, a noun at which you inevitably arrive (Douglas Rushkoff)2 or an emotion where you park your feelings (Gerd Leonhard)3 but as a verb – a thing you do or, as I see it, a mindset to guide a new way of being. For this mindset, you can borrow and expand on the idea of a business plan to create a personal futures plan to which you can align your behaviour through your decisions, choices and actions. This requires some preparative homework to know who you are, what you want to feel and aspire to have. It also requires some futurecasting, which means thinking and listing some of the problems of the future you might be faced with, and thinking of the steps you can put in place, preparing to meet those challenges in the future. For example, problems that might influence you, your family or your work are climate change, automation and digitisation. How will these influence you? With this wisdom in mind, you can consciously envisage future scenarios. This includes envisaging a preferred future, one where you can flourish and thrive and that best suits and assures y’our health and wellbeing. Isn’t that ultimately what we all want? So, what do you want your future to be like? Or, as I like to put it: What “the future” do you want? The next step is to change forward. By that, I mean to make decisions and choices with more forethought and act intentionally to make your preferred future into an ongoing reality. In other words, making this an ongoing reality by proactively incorporating your preferred future (episodic futures thinking) into your decisions, choices and actions to “change forward” and create a GREAT future for yourself and others on purpose. |
The Futurize Yourself AI Guide
We are living in a fast-changing and often overwhelming world. Now more than ever, we need tools that help us not just cope, but evolve with purpose.
The Futurize Yourself AI Guide (*) is an AI-powered companion designed to support you on your journey of personal evolution – one step at a time. Based on the second edition of Futurize Yourself and the principles in The Futures Effect, this interactive assistant helps you reflect, realign, and move forward with clarity.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, seeking direction, or ready to reshape your story, the Futurize Yourself Guide offers:
You can ask it questions, explore challenges, or simply engage in thoughtful dialogue about change, mismatch, and purposeful living.
The Futurize Yourself AI Guide (*) is an AI-powered companion designed to support you on your journey of personal evolution – one step at a time. Based on the second edition of Futurize Yourself and the principles in The Futures Effect, this interactive assistant helps you reflect, realign, and move forward with clarity.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, seeking direction, or ready to reshape your story, the Futurize Yourself Guide offers:
- Insight into the 4-step Futurize Yourself process
(Interspection – Retrospection – Introspection – Futurespection) - Practical guidance to align your life with the future you want
- Reflective prompts to deepen your connection with your future self
- Support for coaches and therapists exploring future-oriented transformation
You can ask it questions, explore challenges, or simply engage in thoughtful dialogue about change, mismatch, and purposeful living.
* The Futurize Yourself Guide GPT is an educational and reflective tool based on the concepts presented in Futurize Yourself and The Futures Effect by Tom Meyers. It is designed to support self-inquiry, mindset development, and purposeful living. This GPT does not offer medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial advice. It is not a substitute for professional consultation or treatment. If you are experiencing distress or require personal guidance, please consult a qualified healthcare or mental health professional. All content is provided for general information and personal development purposes only. Use of this tool is at your own discretion and responsibility.
EMAIL: [email protected]
BOOKS: www.futurizeyourself.com
CLINIC: www.osteopathbrussels.com
REASET: www.thereasetapproach.com
LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/meyerstom
BOOKS: www.futurizeyourself.com
CLINIC: www.osteopathbrussels.com
REASET: www.thereasetapproach.com
LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/meyerstom
Tom Meyers was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1970. Initially trained as a chef, he spent several years travelling the world, working as a waiter in hotels across England and aboard Cunard’s flagship, the Queen Elizabeth 2. After eight years, Tom returned to Belgium and, at the age of 29, was prompted to start his own business—a gourmet deli in Mechelen. However, the venture quickly failed, leading him into an existential crisis that nearly caused him to give up on life. Through three transformative steps, which he now calls “Futurizing Y’ourself,” Tom overcame his limiting beliefs and evolved into the person he was meant to be.
Today, Tom is an osteopath and body-centred stress coach with a private practice in Brussels. He is also the founder and international instructor of "The Reaset Approach," a hands-on therapeutic methodology and treatment modality that brings manual therapists into the 21st century. As an accomplished author, Tom has significantly contributed to the emerging field of personal futures development with works like “Futurize Yourself” and “The Futures Effect.” These works offer valuable guidance and strategies to help individuals flourish in a fast-changing and challenging world—in body, mind, and spirit.
Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience, Tom is recognised by his peers as an Evolutionary Wellbeing and Body-Centred Stress Expert. In this role, he helps organisations build resilient, high-performing, and future-fit teams through inspirational talks that explore the impact of stress on health and wellbeing from both an evolutionary, body-centred and futures perspective. With his multilayered approach he inspires individuals within teams to manage stress more effectively by fostering a deeper understanding of how an evolutionary mismatches undermines physical and mental health, cognition, performance, and overall wellbeing—and what needs to be done to change the tide, futurize oneself, and create the stability through change needed to flourish and thrive in the future. By integrating these insights, Tom supports the development of a healthier, more adaptive workforce, equipped to succeed in today’s dynamic and challenging world.
Tom's journey from struggling entrepreneur to thought leader in manual therapy, evolutionary wellbeing, and personal futures is a powerful example of resilience in action. His life and work inspires organisations and their teams to overcome challenges, embrace growth, flourish and thrive in body, mind, and spirit in today’s fast-changing and challenging times.
Today, Tom is an osteopath and body-centred stress coach with a private practice in Brussels. He is also the founder and international instructor of "The Reaset Approach," a hands-on therapeutic methodology and treatment modality that brings manual therapists into the 21st century. As an accomplished author, Tom has significantly contributed to the emerging field of personal futures development with works like “Futurize Yourself” and “The Futures Effect.” These works offer valuable guidance and strategies to help individuals flourish in a fast-changing and challenging world—in body, mind, and spirit.
Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience, Tom is recognised by his peers as an Evolutionary Wellbeing and Body-Centred Stress Expert. In this role, he helps organisations build resilient, high-performing, and future-fit teams through inspirational talks that explore the impact of stress on health and wellbeing from both an evolutionary, body-centred and futures perspective. With his multilayered approach he inspires individuals within teams to manage stress more effectively by fostering a deeper understanding of how an evolutionary mismatches undermines physical and mental health, cognition, performance, and overall wellbeing—and what needs to be done to change the tide, futurize oneself, and create the stability through change needed to flourish and thrive in the future. By integrating these insights, Tom supports the development of a healthier, more adaptive workforce, equipped to succeed in today’s dynamic and challenging world.
Tom's journey from struggling entrepreneur to thought leader in manual therapy, evolutionary wellbeing, and personal futures is a powerful example of resilience in action. His life and work inspires organisations and their teams to overcome challenges, embrace growth, flourish and thrive in body, mind, and spirit in today’s fast-changing and challenging times.
Published Books
2026: Futurize Yourself - Second Edition (published later this year)
2023: The Futures Effect – Change Your Story, Change Y’our Future! E-book and printed version published by Storyland and IngramSpark (ISBN: 9789403683508)
2022: A very Short Introduction to Futurizing Yourself – How to Become Futurewise and Better Manage your Present. E-book
2018: Futurize Yourself – Design Your Life on Purpose. E-book and printed version (OUT OF PRINT)
2023: The Futures Effect – Change Your Story, Change Y’our Future! E-book and printed version published by Storyland and IngramSpark (ISBN: 9789403683508)
2022: A very Short Introduction to Futurizing Yourself – How to Become Futurewise and Better Manage your Present. E-book
2018: Futurize Yourself – Design Your Life on Purpose. E-book and printed version (OUT OF PRINT)
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I'm a member of the Professional Speakers Association (PSA) Belgium, the Virtual Speakers Association International (VSAI) and the Global Speakers Federation. I'm also a Certified Virtual Presenter a standard that is supported by leading industry organisations like MPI, SPIN and Smartmeetings.
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I'm a member of the Association of Professional Futurists an organisation that plays a unique role in the field of strategic foresight by defining the competencies of professional futurists, the knowledge base of futures studies they use and the standards by which their work can be evaluated.
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I've been appointed Ambassador for Belgium for the Healthgevity Nation. The core mission of Healthgevity Nation is massive and transformative: to empower individuals to live healthier, wealthier, and happier lives for as long as possible. This mission goes beyond mere wellness; it aims to revolutionise how we view and approach ageing.
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Technology may the means - but people are the point.
Selection of Tom's previous webinars & interviews
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FITFULL ON SPOTIFY
In 2025, I discovered Suno, an AI tool that can be used to create music. What began as a way of bringing one of my self-written texts to life musically soon grew into a new creative – or perhaps better put, generative – outlet. The result was Lost in Control and other tracks. Since then, I have been writing more songs, or using ChatGPT to turn my articles into first versions of song lyrics, which I then develop further myself before having them set to music with Suno.
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Future You is an interactive experience for cultivating self-reflection and long-term thinking.
For more information go to https://futureyou.media.mit.edu
For more information go to https://futureyou.media.mit.edu
