How do you make your community, nonprofit, and business organisation more successful? How do you solve BIG ISSUES that people care about and impact your performance and success?
You can't do it alone.
People use Future Search for three main purposes:
Future Search is for Leaders who want higher commitment and better results in less time and at lower cost than with traditional strategic planning.
Future Search is a unique strategic planning method used world-wide by hundreds of communities and organizations.
Future Search is a strategic, principle-based PLANNING MEETING that helps people transform their capability for action very quickly. The meeting is task-focused. It brings together 60 to 100 people in one room or hundreds in parallel rooms.
Future Search brings people from all walks of life into the same conversation – those with authority, resources, expertise, information and need. They meet for 20 hours spread across three days. People tell stories about their past, present and desired future. Through dialogue they discover their common ground. Only then do they make concrete action plans.
The meeting design comes from theories and principles tested in many cultures for the past 50 years. It relies on mutual learning among stakeholders as a catalyst for voluntary action and follow-up. People devise new forms of cooperation that continue for months or years.
Future Searches have been run in every part of the world and in every sector of society.
The FUTURE SEARCH method is developed by Marv Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, the Founders of the FUTURE SEARCH NETWORK.
Text and Logo - used with permission from Sandra Janoff, PhD, Director, FUTURE SEARCH NETWORK
Hundreds of communities and organizations have achieved a shared vision and committed action from diverse stakeholders in a single FUTURE SEARCH.
Some of the ways FUTURE SEARCH has been used to help businesses:
DAY 1 Afternoon
Focus on the Past
People make time lines of key events in the world, their own lives, and in the history of the
future search topic. Small groups tell stories about each time line and the implications of their stories for the work they have come to do.
Focus on Present, External Trends
The whole group makes a “mind map” of trends affecting them now and identifies those trends most important for their topic.
DAY 2 Morning
Focus on Present, External Trends
Stakeholder groups describe what they are doing now about key trends and what they want to do in the future.
Focus on Present
Stakeholder groups report what they are proud of and sorry about in the way they are dealing with the Future Search topic.
DAY 2 Afternoon
Ideal Future Scenarios
Diverse groups put themselves into the future and describe their preferred future as if it has already been accomplished.
Identify Common Ground
Diverse Groups post themes they believe are common ground for everyone.
DAY 3 Morning & Early Afternoon
Confirm Common Ground
Whole group dialogues to agree on common ground. Voluntary groups write Common Ground Statements that reflect the will of everyone present.
Action Planning
Volunteers sign up to implement action plans.
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