Workshop Content
The workshop is designed as a natural progression as each exercise or tool builds upon the previous. Facilitators plan to provide a morning and afternoon break, plus one hour for lunch.
| Exercise/Tool | Description | Purpose | Skills practiced |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMPACT: Forestry Edition | Strategic foresight serious game | To help imagine and think critically about the future of forestry | Systems thinking Cause and effect Scenario building |
| Forestry Scenarios | Presentation of three separate plausible future scenarios of relevance to federal forestry | To introduce and practice thinking about the future as multiple alternatives | Long-term perspective Challenging assumptions |
| Storytelling the Future | Template to create a persona from the future and craft a story set in one of the forestry scenarios | To help process the insights from the forestry scenarios and identify a potential conflict to be used in the Futures Wheel | Scenario building Cause and effect |
| Futures Wheels | Mind map that uncovers multiple cause and effect lineages of a future event | To identify indirect, but significant, impacts on the organization that could emerge from the conflict selected from the Storytelling the Future tool | Cause and effect Long-term perspective Systems thinking |
| Implications | Group discussion about long-term challenges, strengths, opportunities, and risks | To reveal how changes from the Futures Wheels could impact the organization, your team, and yourself | Risk management Leveraging opportunities |
| Backcasting | Reverse chronological assessment of steps needed to accomplish a goal | To itemize and prioritize strategies to overcome internal challenges and leverage opportunities | Future direction outline Leveraging opportunities |