What could this idea change?
People can influence how emerging change is understood and prepare practical responses that remain useful across more than one possible future.
M-T1-CL-03 · Theme 1
Community Futures Summit
Enables a broad community to examine plausible local futures, test choices against evidence and agree a small set of resilient actions without presenting forecasts as certainty.
Where this idea came from
- Playbook entry
- M-T1-CL-03 · Community Futures Summit
- Theme
- Theme 1: Attraction & Visibility · Subtheme CL: Civic Leadership
- Source material
- Existing checked Theme 1 guide
- Linked playbook entry
- M-T1-CL-03 · Community Futures Summit
Could this work in our club?
- Residents, young people, Traditional Owners, community organisations, public agencies, researchers, business and service leaders. Use when several long-term trends affect the community and no single organisation owns the response.
Before you start
- A transparent horizon scan with sourced trends, uncertainties, assumptions and excluded topics.
- A participation strategy covering geographic, cultural, age, disability and socioeconomic access.
- Scenario methods, facilitation, venue or platform, data capture and action-governance arrangements tested in advance.
At the end: Publish an accessible summit report within 14 days, brief missing stakeholders and reconvene action owners at three and six months to test progress against emerging signals.
Before your club says yes
Does the idea fit?
Talk with the people it is meant to serve and check that the need is real.
Who can say yes?
Name the person or group that can approve the work, spending and any safety arrangements.
Are people protected?
Check privacy, consent and safety. Collect only the information you genuinely need.
Can everyone take part?
Check the language, format, place, technology and cost for barriers.
Are the facts and permissions right?
Check names, claims, images, quotations, partner references and Rotary branding.
How will we learn?
Note where things stand now, check in at 30, 60 and 90 days, and decide what to do next.
Worksheets for your club
Open them online, print them or change them to suit the way your club works.
Event and session plan
Use this worksheet to plan who the session is for, when it will happen, how people can take part and what happens afterwards.
Open worksheetCommunications and content planner
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Open worksheetFacilitation and conversation guide
Use this worksheet to hold a respectful conversation, hear different views and tell people what happens next.
Open worksheetTraining and mentoring guide
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