Future Searches are particularly useful for community issues.
The group might be interested in taking advantage of a little known secret. In my opinion they are quite different approaches whose main link is a similar name. Fred Emery and Eric Trist were the first to write about the emergence of turbulence and uncertainty in 1965 which we all confront today. The Search Conference, as they designed it, is an experiential approach to planning in real time that helps organizations to develop the capacity for active adaptation to turbulent environments. I wrote an article with Janet Fiero describing the use of the method in a unit within Motorola which designs and manufactures high tech chips for cellular phones.