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Intro to Facilitating Civic Scenario Building is a practical, step-by-step course that teaches you how to guide futures conversations in civic spaces. You’ll learn how to help groups explore drivers, build scenarios, map pathways, and turn future insights into strategy using simple, grounded facilitation methods.
SIF™ Alignment: Awareness (Sense)
This module helps you build the foundational facilitation skills required before any scenario building process begins. You will learn to guide groups through understanding their civic system, its drivers, tensions, power patterns, and lived realities. Mapping the system is the essential first step in SIF™, and it enables informed, grounded exploration of alternative futures.
In this module, you will guide groups from understanding today’s system to imagining tomorrow’s possibilities. You’ll learn how to define a strong focal issue, identify key uncertainties, build a scenario grid, and help participants develop rich scenario narratives. This is where creative foresight begins, and where new civic futures start to take shape.
In this module, you help groups interpret their scenarios, explore what is possible, plausible, probable, and preferred, and understand the implications for civic actors and systems. You’ll guide participants to backcast from a 10-year horizon, identify milestones and strategic shifts, and design adaptive actions, experiments, signposts, and triggers that strengthen readiness and resilience across multiple futures.