2. Explore desirable futures
Today’s Objectives
Explore desirable futures
Identify opportunities to create these desired futures and relationships today
More deeply understand each other’s perspectives and experiences related to diesel and remote communities

3. Headlines
To recap and share experiences of Day One and build new connections
1. Create a newspaper headline that sums up your experience of yesterday.
2. Find someone you haven’t met yet.
3. Share your newspaper headlines with each other and why you chose it.
We will do this three times, so you will have the opportunity to meet three new people.
We will tell you when it is time to switch and find a new person.
find someone you don’t know…4 minutes sharing…then find another partner….then find another…we’ll tell you when to switch

4. Bring forward your most powerful, most important insights
How we will Work Together
Focus on Dialogue
Stretch Yourself
Bring forward your most powerful, most important insights

5. Format for Today WORK through an activity with your Table Group
SURFACE Group Insights (most powerful, most important)
DOCUMENT Group Insights
SHARE Group Insights

6. Sharing Insights Each table group is assigned to a specific poster.
One person posts their group’s insights.

7. Current State
To create shared understanding of the current state
1. Think about the current context of diesel in remote communities.
What words come to mind? Jot your ideas in your journals.
2. Share your words at your table.
3. As a table, choose five words that best represent your table’s understanding and perception of the current state of diesel in remote communities.

8. Current State
Using a sharpie pen, write your table’s 5 words on one sticky note. Place the note on your poster in the clouds.
When you are finished, please return to your group.

9. Future State
To create shared understanding of alternative, possible futures
1. Imagine the ideal future of diesel in remote communities. You define what is ideal.
What words come to mind? Jot your ideas in your journals.
2. Share your words at your table.
3. As a group, choose five words that you feel best represent your group’s desired future state of diesel in remote communities.

10. Future State
Using a sharpie pen, write your table’s 5 words on one sticky note. Place the note on your poster in the sun rays.
When you are finished, please return to your group.

11. Key Shifts
To explore how we might move from the current state to a desired future
1. As a group, think about the two worlds you have described: current and future state.
What are the most important shifts that would need to take place to move from the current state to the future state world you described?
What do you want to move away from, and toward?
“From” example: disconnected efforts
“To” example: diesel as one of a portfolio of energy sources for remote communities

12. Key Shifts As a group, choose 1 - 3 of your most important shifts.
Using a sharpie pen, write them on sticky notes – one per sticky. Place the notes on your poster in the houses.
When you are finished, please return to your group.

14. Rich Pictures Doodle Quality – use Text to Label
To collectively visualize desired futures (30 min)
Doodle Quality – use Text to Label
Anything goes!
Focus on In-Between Spaces
What is flowing?
Remember Yourself!

15. Strengths Strengths What is happening really well in this future?
To identify the most important, necessary future attributes (5 min)
Strengths
What is happening really well in this future?
What does that tell you about the skills needed?

16. Aspirations Aspirations How does this future make a difference?
To identify the purpose for designing the desired future (5 min)
Aspirations
How does this future make a difference?
What is/are its purpose(s)?

17. Opportunities Opportunities
To explore how we might begin to create this future, today (15 min)
Opportunities
What could happen today to create this future? Where are the opportunities for action?
Please be as specific as possible.

18. Results
To explore how we will know we are successful (10 min)
Results
If this future came to be, what tangible and/or measurable results would it achieve?
What would this future be known for?
Please be specific here.

19. lunch

20. no names…please write legibly
Crowdsourcing Ideas
To rapidly generate and sift the group’s most powerful ideas
Individually, think of an action you would put forward to reduce diesel in remote communities.
Now, individually, on the front of your index card, write:
If you were 10 times bolder, what one action would you put forward to reduce diesel in remote communities?
no names…please write legibly

21. Crowdsourcing Ideas
Pass cards around while milling
5 rounds
Score each card out of 5 (before looking at the other scores)
Put score on the back of the card
Card Side A - Example
This is the idea that the person would recommend.
Card Side B – Example
Remind that this is an individual activity… /5
= /25
1 = ho hum (I don’t think this would have much impact)
5 = fabulous! (I think this has great potential impact – I’m in!)

22. Write the total score out of 25 on the back of the card
Crowdsourcing Ideas
Card Side B - Example
4 /5
3 /5
2 /5
= 16 /25
After the last round, add all the scores:
Adding five scores out of five = one total score out of 25
Write the total score out of 25 on the back of the card

23. To rapidly generate and sift the group’s most powerful ideas…

24. Bold Ideas What is the pitch? What is puzzling? What is promising?
To identify relevant next steps by diving deeply into one idea (25 min)
What is the pitch?
What is puzzling?
What is promising?
What might this idea look like?
How might you describe it to someone? (Use pictures and/or words)
What outstanding questions do you have about this idea?
What potential barriers or challenges do you foresee?*
*Bonus: how might you overcome those?
Refer to worksheet. One per table.
What is the potential impact of this idea?
What is so great about this idea?

26. Closing Reflection 4 min WHAT?
To build shared understanding of people’s experience today (15 min)
4 min
WHAT?
What did you notice about today? (facts, observations)
5 min
So What?
Why is that important?
6 min
Now What?
What does it make sense to do now?

27. Now What?
What does it make sense to do now?

28. Closing Remarks

29. Thank You