I spent several years as a Principal at a small management consulting boutique (NCRI) that was a leader in scenario planning. I quite agree that scenarios could be quite helpful. Over this past summer I started to sketch out some scenarios that addressed (at a very high level) the social, political and cultural consequences of different trajectories for the US economy over the next several years. I had thought to see if there was someone (agency, foundation, etc.) who might fund a real project to develop the scenarios and then sponsor a one or two day interactive workshop to explore a better version of the scenarios and their implications. The scenarios - notes, really - are in tabular form in a word/pdf doc. Happy to share if you send email to Weber@PescaderoGroup.com with some reference to scenarios in the subject field (so it doesn't get trashed with the spam).

Bob

>Robert Walikis [snip]
>Scenario planning could / should be another component of >social activism....