Systems Change Tools

With a master's degree in Whole Systems Design and a practical foundation in multicultural environments and community activism, Emerging Design Consulting can assist your group to make genuine and lasting change.

Listed on this page are just a few of the cutting-edge methods I use.  Tools for organization and community-wide engagement include:

Future search conference - www.futuresearch.net - is a powerful model for large-scale change used throughout the world.  I offer planning, technical assistance and facilitation of future search conferences.

To view a 30-minute interview about Future Search with founders Marv Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, please click on the link:  http://vimeo.com/9582760

Appreciative Inquiry - involves the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system's capacity to understand and heighten positive potential.

Open Space - quick and effective method for large groups to identify their passion and commitment and organize for action

Methods that engage the whole person and result in new creative thinking include mind mapping, scenario planning, dialogue, imagery exercises and storytelling.

Dialogue across race, culture and class - nothing takes the place of honest and open dialogue.  When we really hear each other across boundaries, we expand our world and our understanding.

Imagin-i-zation - Fun and creative exercises that involve the whole person and the whole brain, by the ground-breaking author, Gareth Morgan.