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id: future-search-conference
title: Future Search Conference
description: >-
A large-group planning method that brings diverse stakeholders into a
shared exploration of past, present, and future to find common ground.
Developed by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff.
source: Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, "Future Search"
source_url: https://futuresearch.net/
tags: [future-search, planning, large-group, stakeholders]
forked_from: null
image: null
steps:
- headline: Map the past
description: >-
Small mixed groups create a timeline of key events in their own lives,
the organisation, and the world over several decades.
- headline: Map the present
description: >-
Groups map current trends and forces affecting the system, noting
what they are proud of and what they are sorry about.
- headline: Ideal future scenarios
description: >-
Small groups craft vivid scenarios of the organisation twenty years
on, as if they have already happened.
- headline: Find common ground
description: >-
The whole group identifies shared themes and projects that all
stakeholders can commit to, setting aside differences.
- headline: Action plans
description: >-
Volunteers form task groups around each common-ground project and plan
concrete next steps.
outcome: >-
Diverse stakeholders discover shared ground and commit to projects none
could have advanced alone.
practice: >-
Stakeholder diversity is essential — include those with authority,
resources, knowledge, and those affected. The "proud/sorry" step often
releases energy that agenda control would have suppressed.