Discussion Guide for Preferred Futuring

Envision the Future You Want and Unleash the Energy to Get There

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It is important as we take ourselves, our teams, our organizations, our communities into the next century, to understand the nature of change and step into our power to individually and collectively create the future we want rather than the one we don't want. Getting together to dialogue about this is very important.

Here are some questions to help stimulate this process and explore Preferred Futuring as a way to proactively manage change in your world.

1. What words or phrases come to mind which describe the nature of change in your world today?
2. Why is it strategically important, in any human system, to focus on the future you want rather than the problem(s) you have to successfully manage change or transition?
3. What does research show the impact of Preferred Futuring or problem solving to be on teams and organizations?
4. What practical suggestions in the book have helped you deal with some of your more pressing challenges?
5. What might you do to help your team or organization become interested in Preferred Futuring? What resistances would you expect and how would you work with those?
6. Why is getting the whole system aligned with and passionate about a common direction and future state important or even necessary for success?
7. Do you think the notion of spirit or soul in the work place has any relationship to creating deep and lasting change in organizations? Why do you say that?
8. Using the formula for successful change, what is the state of readiness for change in your system? Which of the three necessary ingredients is missing? Could Preferred Futuring help manage change in your system?
9. What are the implications of Preferred Futured Futuring for us as leaders or members of organizations or communities?
10. Based on the Quantum Change Model: 1)what future state is likely in your system, based on what has happened in the past; AND 2) what other possible future state would you prefer? What is a first step you could take?
11. Do you agree that our internal reality is the "real" one? In what ways does this seem true or not true?
12. Which of the four basic principles (listed in the last chapter) to help guide our journey as we create the future we prefer and lend deeper understanding and meaning to our lives in organizations do you find most useful and why?