CHAPTER 2The Ripple EffectHow One Meeting Can Change the World
In 1994 Rolf Carriere, a UNICEF country representative, organized an FS simulation for Bangladeshi stakeholders, consultants, trainers, and managers titled “The Future of the Children of Dhaka.” His goal was to see if Future Search could be adopted in a traditional, hierarchical society. What happened after that meeting has influenced UNICEF’s work in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East for the past 16 years.
We know this because in the 1990s Future Search Network began a “Ripple Research” project. Some 50 FSN members joined in following up on Future Searches they had run. There were three things we wanted to learn:
What people did after a Future Search that they could not do ...
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