Future Search is a principle-based planning meeting that helps people transform their capability for action very quickly. The meeting is task-focused. It brings together 60 to 100 people in one room or hundreds in parallel rooms.

Future Search brings people from all walks of life into the same conversation – those with authority, resources, expertise, information and need. They meet for 20 hours spread across three days. People tell stories about their past, present and desired future. Through dialogue they discover their common ground. Only then do they make concrete action plans.

Future Search principles have been tested in many cultures for the past 75 years. It enables mutual learning among stakeholders as a catalyst for voluntary action and follow-up. People devise new forms of collaboration that continue for months or years.

Future Searches have been run in every part of the world and in every sector of society.