The Scenario Board
Please lay out the Scenario Board that you prepared before the workshop. This will remain in one place throughout the workshop so that people can add their thoughts to it. Ideally, it will be on a table or board that people can gather around, but if that’s not an option you can put it on the floor or pin it to a wall.
Lay out some pens and paper
Organise a selection of pens, coloured post-it notes (or pieces of scrap paper are fine) and notepaper to be available ready for the participants. Please use a different colour for each exercise so that the analysis team can match the responses to the specific questions.
Plan how to use the space
If your group is larger than 10, you will need to divide people into groups of around 5 for some exercises. Have a look at the space and think about how this will work best.
Workshop Overview
The main workshop components
In this workshop we are using scenarios to explore how people can build resilience and agency in their local communities to shape a future direction of travel for Scotland.
Time: 2 hours
Exercises included: 1,2
Overall the goal is to answer 3 questions (Q1 is repeated from Workshop 1 to build more depth):
We woud suggest that you complete the facilitator feedback form to capture the overall responses to the 3 questions listed above.
If possible, we would suggest asking someone to help you to capture what is said during the workshop and to take pictures of post-it note responses after each exercise.
Sections to deliver
The workshop is divided into 6 sections
Welcome the group and thank them for returning for a second workshop. Let them know that for the next two hours you are going to work through some scenarios and questions with each other.
This workshop is more open and unstructured so you might need to encourage quieter members of the group to share what is coming up for them.
Take the participants through Rob Hopkin’s Time Machine Visualisation.
Ask people to split into pairs, stand in a line (shoulder to shoulder) and close their eyes;
This exercise is baed on Question 1:
What kind of future does the community want to work towards?
Introduce the Scenario Board and explain that you will be using it to frame possible scenarios for this specific community. The reason for giving some boundaries is to keep the conversation focused and to help compare the outputs between different communities.
This exercise is based on Questions 2&3:
What does the community already have that can be built on?
What else do they need?
In the full group, spend 10 minutes exploring what the community already has in place that can provide the foundations for a stronger future (e.g. good schools, shared outdoor space);
Spend 10 minutes helping people to digest what came up for them in the workshop.
Thank everyone for their time and let them know the following:
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