Port Stephens Futures Project

Phillip Daffara was engaged by Port Stephens Council as a Futurist, Project Mentor and Co-facilitator for their Futures Project (2009)

Key outcomes:

  • Engage and provoke participants at the Future Forum to consider long term mega-trends and consider the implications for Port Stephens’ valued qualities of life

Key outputs:

  • Keynote presentation;
  • Project Mentoring in regard to appropriate futures tools and methods to be used at the Future Forum including:
                Futures Triangle to understand forces of change;
                Futures Tree to collect ideas;
                Place Timeline to understand collective history;
                Backcasting ideas and identifying barriers
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  • Co-facilitation at the Future Forum with Straightalk.

The futures methods were converted into graphic  table worksheets by Guy Downes.