exercise · all tools
Future~Present
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Small groups gather at an imagined campfire 15–30 years ahead: "elders" recount to "youths" how the work fully succeeded, describing that world as if present, then all look "back" to notice which tactics visible in today's present already point there. Backcasting compressed to twenty-five minutes: the future as a vantage point, not a prediction.
Practical
- Time
- 25 min
- Group
- 4–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Space for groups of 4–5; optional handouts
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- liberatingstructures.com/future-present — Liberating Structures, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Keith McCandless & Fisher Qua — Liberating Structures (backcasting family)
In this directory via Liberating Structures
status: checked · added 2026-08-25