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Futures Wheels: facilitation worksheet

Published 29 August 2024

This worksheet is for the user to adapt and fill in as needed 바카라 사이트 timings and wording are suggestions only and will need to be tailored to the user바카라 사이트s context. Read other Futures Toolkit resources.

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Participants:

Time Activity Content Notes
-00:30 Set up If face-to-face, you will need notepads, pens, screen. Make sure that you are able to pin flip charts up on a wall. Provide space for each group to work. If virtual, make sure that you have prepared your online whiteboard with the scenarios to be explored. You will need to be able to use breakout rooms in the video meeting package. Display the Scoping Question prominently. Prepare slides if using (recommended). If you are working virtually, you may need an introduction to the online whiteboard before you start or send a short 바카라 사이트how-to guide바카라 사이트.  
00:00 (5 mins) Introduction and agenda Introduce the aims of the project. Explain how this workshop fits in with any wider futures process. Introduce the concept of a vision 바카라 사이트 a desirable, but feasible future. Then, introduce the workshop, what people will do and what the outcomes will be. Agenda: 1. Introduction to Futures Wheel. 2. Identify Focus. 3. Primary impacts. 4. Secondary impacts. 5. Tertiary impacts. 6. Debrief  
  Introduction to Futures Wheels      
00:05 (10 mins) Futures Wheels 바카라 사이트 setting the context A Futures Wheel uses Cascade Thinking, allowing you to go out three levels of impact to gain insight (and discover unintended consequences). At the centre is your initial focus. Consider the first-order impacts within the next year. What follows on from these within 2바카라 사이트5 years? Finally, what are the third-order impacts 5바카라 사이트15 years plus? Slide with overlays of each step  
00:15 (45 mins) Futures Wheel Exercise Start with impacts within the next year 바카라 사이트 write them on a sticky in the first circle. Continue until you feel sure that you have covered all the impacts within the first year. You may like to use a list of trends or PESTLE to ensure that you cover a sufficiently wide area. Next, look at each one and see what impacts follow on in 2바카라 사이트5 years. Finally, consider 5바카라 사이트15 plus year impacts. Pick an impact chain to share. In groups of 4바카라 사이트8. Each group should have their own flip chart paper or their own space on the online whiteboard with a template for Futures Wheels. You will have 10 minutes for each circle of impacts.  
01:00 (30 mins) Debrief Look at each group바카라 사이트s template and share one impact chain. If you have time, share further impact chains. In Plenary, what surprised you most? Who might win? Lose? What might you do with what you바카라 사이트ve learned? Call everyone back into plenary session and ask for feedback (5 mins each group) then plenary discussion  
01:30 Close Thank you and questions