Future search: tool

Future Search is a type of group planning meeting that goes for 2-3 days. It can encorporate groups from 20 up to several hundred, and aims to achieve four main outputs from one meeting: shared values, a plan for the future, concrete goals to achieve that plan, and an implementation strategy to get to those goals.
The method has been employed in many Australian and international communities, Governments, organisations, corporations and NGO’s.

The classic elements of a Future Search conference are:

• Getting the whole (or representatives of the whole) group affected by the issue in the room
• Exploring all aspects of the issue as a system before trying to fix any part
• Putting common ground and future action front and center, and treating problems and conflicts as information, not action items to be 'ticked off'
• Having people accept responsibility for their own work, conclusions, and action plans

One of the main ideas is to change the idea of "my" facts and "your" facts to create "our" facts.