Future Search facilitation training

Friday 15 August 9.30am to Sunday 17 August 5.00pm

Westgate, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland

Future Search is a principles-based action planning approach that enables the ‘whole system’ into the room. It is a globally renowned process that brings together people who share an interest in a particular issue or challenge to collaborate to find solutions and act on them together.

The Centre for Social Impact (CSI), in partnership with the global Future Search Network (FSN), is offering a unique opportunity for facilitators doing impact work for social, environmental and cultural outcomes to:

 ·  learn the fundamentals of Future Search

 ·  become certified Future Search facilitators

 ·  join the worldwide community of Future Search practitioners to collaborate, share knowledge and grow together. 

The Future Search facilitator training experience is a three-day journey of curiosity, discovery and growth. With your fellow participants, you will choose a challenge to work on to model the Future Search process.  Through this, you will learn the fundamentals of Future Search facilitation, gain hands-on experience, learn from mistakes, celebrate successes and share insights with peers.

The training process will be guided by CSI Associate, Miranda Cassidy-O’Connell.

Miranda has extensive experience in creating conditions that enable diverse voices to reach common ground. She did her Future Search facilitation training in the USA in 1999 and is actively engaged in the global Future Search Network. 

With tangata whenua, Miranda has co-facilitated Future Search events across Aotearoa since 2013. Case studies of these events are found on the Future Search • Centre for Social Impact website. Miranda is currently supporting two active Future Search wānanga, one with a national focus and one on post-Treaty settlement aspirations. She is also working with other sectors exploring Future Search as a pathway for their collective action-planning.

This year (2025) Miranda has been certified by Future Search Network’s directors, Sandra Janoff and Michael Donnelly, to run Future Search facilitator training in Aotearoa New Zealand.

In person event

The training course will be held at Te Manawa 11 Kohuhu Lane, Westgate, West Auckland from 9.30am on Friday 15th August through to 5.00pm on Sunday 17th August.

The course is three full days and intensive in nature.

Full attendance is required to be certified as a Future Search facilitator.

All-day parking is available for $5 at the open-air Wilson's car park on Maki Street.

You will receive a workbook and a copy of the textbook Future Search, Getting the whole system in the room for vision, commitment and action.

The course fee includes refreshments and snacks. Bring your own lunch or partake in one of the many eateries in Te Pūmanawa Square, right at the base of Te Manawa training venue.

Note: Accommodation is not offered as part of this course.

On completion of the course, you will receive

· certification as a Future Search facilitator from partners Centre for Social Impact and the Future Search Network

·  one-year membership to the global Future Search Network. 

Participant criteria

You will meet the following criteria:

·  previous facilitation experience

·  an interest in systems change

·  experience in contributing to impact work for social, environmental, cultural outcomes.

Tickets

The course cost per person: $1,522 (GST exclusive) $1,750 (GST inclusive)

Once your registration is confirmed, an invoice will be sent to you requesting a 10% deposit of $175 to secure your attendance.

Registrations will close on 1 July 2025.

Course confirmation date is 7 July 2025, with your remaining course fee due by 11 July to secure your place.

If travelling from outside Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland, we recommend that you book refundable air tickets or only book non-refundable air tickets after the course confirmation date.

Privacy policy

Personal information is treated as confidential, is used only for organising this training course or related purposes and will not be shared with other parties without permission from the participant.

Want to know more?

Please get in touch through our website https://www.centreforsocialimpact.org.nz/contact

We can email you a printable pdf about the Future Search facilitation training or contact you directly to answer specific questions you may have.