Future Search Academy

Managing a future search

STOCKHOLM, SEPTEMBER 3-5 2025

FUTURE SEARCH - THE WHOLE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION PROCESS

What is Future Search?

Future Search is a unique strategic planning method used world-wide by hundreds of communities and organizations. The method, developed by Marv Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, enables large diverse groups to (1) discover a shared agenda, (2) take responsibility for action, and (3) develop commitment to implementation. The method is especially useful in uncertain, fast-changing situations when it is important that everyone have the same large picture in order to act responsibly. Because it is largely culture free, Future Search is used in North and South America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and India to create an umbrella for social, technological and economic planning.

How Future Search Works

Future Search follows tested principles derived from six decades of research and experimentation with what it takes to enable people to act cooperatively without having to defend or sell their own agendas or give up cherished values. The first principle involves "getting the whole system in the room." The second involves putting the focal issue in global perspective. The third requires seeking common ground and desirable futures, while treating problems and conflicts as information, not action items. The fourth asks people to manage their own small groups and take responsibility for acting on what they learn.

The Managing a Future Search Workshop

Participants in the “Managing a Future Search” Workshop will acquire the tools needed to plan, design and manage Future Search meetings with integrity in any sector or culture. Over the past years more than 6,000 people from across the world have attended this workshop and applied Future Search Principles to their practice. Facilitators and leaders learn deeply all the reasons why bringing the whole system together is the most powerful way to work on complex issues in today’s world.

What you learn:

• How to manage a meeting in which the target of change is a whole system's capability for action now and in the future

• Key issues in matching conference task and stakeholders

• A theory and practice of facilitating large, diverse groups

• How to keep critical choices in the hands of participants

• How freeing yourself from diagnosing and fixing enables diverse groups to come together faster

• Principles and techniques that can be used to design many other meetings

Workshop Agenda:

• Theory, history and dynamics of Future Search

•  Conditions for success.

• Conference planning and implementation

•  Output and follow-up

•  Facilitation skills and techniques

•  World-wide applications and strategies

Who is this Course For:

• Anyone who is organising and leading meetings

• Facilitators

• Process designers  Change managers

• Managers with staff responsibilities

Fees

Corporate fee: €3000

Discounted fee: €2300 for non-profit organizations and self-payers

Register till End of May 2025 as Early Bird and save 10% on Workshops!

Discounted scholarship places are available on request for students, young professionals or people in special economic situations. Please contact us!

15% for signing up to both courses, P-10 Facilitation and Workshop on Managing a Future Search. Sign up at info@lankaconsulting.se

NOTICE:

The Training is part of a series of 2 Future Search trainings taking place in Stockholm. This training will take place in Stockholm from the 3-5 th of September 2025. See also the related workshop on P10 Facilitation on 8-9th of September 2025 also in Stockholm.

Länka Consulting (www.artofcollaborating.com, www.lankaconsulting.se) in Stockholm is hosting the training. Send your questions or if you want to join the training to info@lankaconsulting.se