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Preferred Futuring

Describes the technique, preferred futuring. facilitate, facilitative,

Category: Change Techniques

Preferred Futuring

A strategy to help organizations and communities construct the future they want and mobilize the energy to get there successfully.

Involves all stakeholders in creating a future and then planning for it,  often creates deep and lasting change.

Changes paradigms of the meaning of authority and responsibility.

Creates a context for learning to think whole system.

Increases understanding of the value of cooperation and the importance of future tense thinking.

Created by Ronald Lippitt and Ed Lindaman