Discovering Common Ground; How Future Search Conferences Bring People Together to Achieve....... Book

	Preface
	The Authors
Pt. 1	Origins, Core Concepts, and Values
	Introduction	1
1	Applied Common Sense	3
2	Inventing the Search Conference: Bristol Siddeley Aircraft Engines, 1960	19
3	Building Collaborative Communities	35
4	Parallel Paths to Community	45
5	Conditions for Success	55
Pt. 2	Functioning of Future Search Conferences: Structure, Process Content
	Introduction	71
6	Search Conference Methodology for Practitioners: An Introduction	73
7	Adapting to Rapid Change Using Search Conferences: Lessons from Norway	83
8	Informing Participants of What to Expect	95
9	Touring 'The Four-room Apartment': a Dynamic View of Future Searches	101
10	Future Search Conferences and the New Science: What Process Should We Trust?	105
11	Dialogue as a Path Toward Wholeness: David Bohm Interviewed by John Briggs	111
Pt. 3	Single-Organization Cases
	Introduction	125
12	Strategic Planning in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	127
13	Revising Brigham Young University's Business School Curriculum	137
	Concept: Theory into Practice	141
14	Human Resource Future Strategy at Storagetek	143
15	AMI Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center Develops a New Vision	149
Pt. 4	Issue-Focused Cases
	Introduction	157
16	A Conservation Strategy for Pakistan	159
17	Planning for the Electricity Sector in Columbia	171
18	Planning, Designing and Managing Large-Scale Searches: Day Care in Saskatchewan	187
19	Water Quality in the Upper Colorado River Basin	215
20	Contextual Searching: Cases from Waste Management, Nature Tourism and Personal Support	229
Pt. 5	Referent-Organization Cases
	Introduction	247
21	Empowering People With Diabetes: The Australian Diabetes Foundation	249
22	Setting National and Local Priorities: Australian Consumer Forum for the Aged	265
23	Preserving Freshwater Fisheries: United Sport Fishermen in the United States	283
Pt. 6	Related Community Development Cases
	Introduction	287
24	Northern Entrepreneurs Decide Their Future: Applying the Quentico Model in Ontario, Canada	289
25	Rural International Development: Using the ICA Model in India and Maylasia	301
Pt. 7	Making Search Conferences Effective
	Introduction	311
26	From Engineer to Searcher: The Impact of Values on Personal Practice	313
27	Leading Search Conferences: Reflections on Managing the Process	317
28	Training Search Conference Managers	325
29	Doing by Learning, Learning by Doing: A Practitioner's Experience With Theory and Practice	345
Pt. 8	Pitfalls in Organizing Search Conferences
	Introduction	361
30	The Isle of Jersey Future Search: Pitfall - Whose Idea Is This Anyway?	363
31	The Center for International Education: Pitfall - Missing the 'Power People'	375
32	Ohio Childhood Development Conference: Pitfall - Starting in Ohio, Not Globally	381
Pt. 9	Future Directions
	Introduction	387
33	Effective Dialogue and the New Technology: Can Closed-Circuit TV Enhance Democracy?	389
34	The Creative Search Gathering: A Story of Creative Action Learning from the Arts	403
35	Applied Imagination + Current Events = Unlimited Possibilities	419
	References	425
	Authors' Names and Addresses	431
	Index	435