People’s perspectives on an organisation’s past give them a limited view of the present. This has a strong influence on its future. The Future, Backwards method helps to widen these perspectives. The Future Backwards method is one of the primary workshop tools within The #Cynefin Co— and one of the most popular. It was developed initially as an alternative to scenario planning. It’s an effective alternative because it increases the number of perspectives that a group can take, when it comes both to understanding their past and to seeing the range of possible futures.
Thus it can be used to:
🌟Discover what entrained patterns of past perception in an #organization are determining its future.
🌟Compare and contrast different aspirations as to the present and the future.
🌟Generate multiple turning points or decision points for use in the social construction of the Cynefin® framework
🌟Generate or prompt for anecdotes, to lead into mapping and many other purposes.
If the instructions are followed, it is easy for participants to understand and generates considerable energy within a group. Future Backwards can be delivered at varying depths of detail and duration, taking from as little as an hour to as long as half a day to complete.
We offer mentoring on it, and training at Narrative BaseCamp covers this method 🤜 https://hubs.la/Q028GDFw0
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