Future Search in Virtual Space - Leading an Online Future Search

Future Search in Virtual Space: The 5-Day Online Intensive

Master the Art of Large-Scale Collaboration Without the Travel.

Can you achieve "whole-system" transformation while working remotely on-line? A resounding Yes! This five-day intensive teaches you the specialized skills required to facilitate a full Future Search in a virtual environment and of course in person too! The only difference in experience is using technology to navigate the conversations and dialogue. When creating the online process we focused on ensuring that the experience would be equivalent to face to face.

Why This Training is Essential

In an era of remote work and global teams, the ability to lead high-stakes planning sessions online is no longer "nice to have", it’s a core competency. This course translates the physical Whole System in the Room into a seamless digital experience, ensuring that energy, equity, and common ground are never lost in translation.

What You Will Master:

• Virtually Present Facilitation: How to manage group energy when you aren't in the same physical space.
• The "No-Loss" Translation: Discover how to adapt the classic Future Search principles so they feel just as intimate and impactful on a screen as they do in person.
• Digital Design & Logistics: Learn the specific tech required to keep 60–100 people engaged and productive online.
• Accelerated Outcomes: Leverage digital tools to capture data in real-time, moving from discussion to documentation faster than ever before.

The Experience

This is a hands-on laboratory. During five four-hour sessions over five days, you will participate in a live virtual simulation. You’ll experience the "potholes" and the breakthroughs of the virtual space first-hand, giving you the "muscle memory" to lead your own clients with total confidence.

The Strategic Advantage: By mastering the Virtual Space, you remove the barriers of travel costs and venue logistics for your clients—making a Future Search more accessible, sustainable, and "endlessly relevant" to global organizations.

Special Offer: Bring a Virtual Partner

The virtual world is better with a co-facilitator or a client by your side.

• Individual Registration: $1,000
• Bring a Client/Partner: $500 (Add them to your registration and train as a team!)

Grounded in 30 years of application, learning, evolution Future Search is a uniquely different approach for todays challenges. The process continues to be not just recognised but celebrated as a unique approach to system change. It is grounded in theory of social science and group dynamics, it is easy to learn and the more you do it the more you see its layers of intricacy and depth. It is much imitated but never surpassed. Future Search has influenced the work of many facilitators, change consultants and academics who promote change at the systems level. 

You will learn this course from Sandra Janoff - the person who co-founded the process 30 years ago and from Michael Donnelly who has been facilitating this approach for over 25 years. 

Once you know the process...

• you will see how it enables you to address the complex, multi-stakeholder challenges that define the modern landscape of business and social change. 
• you will see how it is the answer to every room you walk into where people are struggling to find a shared path forward.
• you will see how it is endlessly relevant and applicable when building a more resilient future, whether you’re working with a small non-profit or a global corporation.

What you will be Able to do

• Master Large-Group Dynamics: Gain the confidence to facilitate 60 to 100+ people simultaneously, moving beyond small-team coaching into large-scale systems change.
• Identify Common Ground: Learn the specific techniques required to help groups stop focusing on their differences and start acting on the 80% they actually agree on. 
• Reduce Implementation Resistance: Acquire the "Whole System in the Room" approach that ensures buy-in happens during the planning, not months after the final report is written. 
• Facilitate Without "Fixing": Master a methodology that empowers the group to take responsibility for their own future, reducing your burden as a facilitator to have all the answers. 
• Drive Accelerated Results: Learn how to compress months of traditional strategic planning into a single, high-energy 16-hour collaborative event.

Experience the Power, Don't Just Hear About It

This isn't a "sit and slide" seminar. To truly understand how to facilitate a whole system, you have to be part of one.

Our training centers on a Live Action Simulation:

• You Choose the Issue: On day one, the cohort identifies a real-world, complex challenge to tackle.
• You Work the System: You won't just study the steps; you will move through them—experiencing the shift from the confusion of the "Present" to the clarity of "Common Ground."
• Dual-Perspective Learning: You will oscillate between being a participant (feeling the emotional impact of the process) and a facilitator (analyzing the mechanics of why it’s working).
• Safe-to-Fail Environment: Test your facilitation "muscles" and navigate group tension with expert guidance before you do it for real in your organization.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for those who facilitate change in a world that is increasingly complex and divided. If you are responsible for moving a group from "talk" to "action," this training is for you.

• Organizational Leaders & CEOs: Who need to align diverse departments or stakeholders behind a single, cohesive strategic vision.
• Community Organizers & Policy Makers: Who are tackling "wicked problems" that require buy-in from competing interest groups.
• Facilitators & Consultants: Who want to add a world-class, proven methodology to their toolkit that goes beyond simple brainstorming.
• HR & Culture Specialists: Who are tasked with navigating large-scale transitions, mergers, or cultural shifts within an organization.
• Project Managers: Who need to ensure that long-term projects have the "whole system" support required to succeed.

Why this is the "Master Key" for your career:

Unlike traditional planning that focuses on fixing problems of the past, this training teaches you how to help groups discover their common ground. You won't just learn a theory; you'll gain the practical skills to manage 60 to 100+ people in a single room and lead them toward a shared future.

The "Bring a Client" Strategic Advantage

We believe the best way to master Future Search is to apply it immediately to real-world stakes. To encourage this, we are offering a unique "Co-Facilitator & Client" incentive:

• Standard Individual Rate: $1,000
• Bring a Partner/Client: Just $500 for each additional person.

Why bring a client or colleague?

• Instant Implementation: Instead of returning to the office and trying to explain the "magic" of Future Search, your client will have lived it with you. You leave the training with a project already in motion.
• Build a Shared Language: Eliminate the "knowledge gap." When you and your client (or team member) understand together the principles of Future Search and why they work, your success rate skyrockets.
• Unbeatable ROI: For a total of $1,500 two of you receive world-class facilitation training—a fraction of the cost of traditional executive education.

Dates and Times 

November 9th-13th - 9am - 1pm EST 3pm to 7pm CET

Stop Managing Meetings. Start Leading Transformations.

Don’t just add another tool to your kit—experience the methodology that has shifted global policy and revitalized stagnant organizations for decades. Spaces in our Live Simulation Training are limited to ensure every participant can fully engage with the "Whole System" experience.