What is the future we want to create? When caught up in the day-to-day of implementing food strategies or delivering frontline services, it’s easy to forget about the bigger picture.
Approaches to building food security must be long-term and built around collective attitudes and values. Here are some helpful resources that can help prompt reflection and the creation of a shared vision. We encourage you to use the tools in the Framing section alongside these tools as how you think and express your vision will shape what is possible.
In this part of the toolkit you will find the following:
- Food Values Workshop
- Tools for creating a strategic vision
- Tools for creating a shared vision together
Food Values Workshop
Time needed: 80-90 minutes
Group size: This is suitable for small groups of no less than 5 and large groups divided into subgroups of 5-8.
What is the food future we want to create? When caught up in the day-to-day implementation of food strategies or the delivery of frontline services, it is easy to forget about the bigger picture. What can happen is that while we may think we are travelling from A to B, by not spending enough time thinking about what B looks like, we just end up back at A.
This workshop aims to facilitate agreement on the shared values we hold regarding food, our food systems and the foodscapes within which we produce, source, and eat food. It is designed to support the collective vision and clarify what B looks like for us.
Resources needed:
- Large sheet of white paper for each group
- Pack of picture cards comprising food images
- Paper for notes
- Marker pens
- Post-it Notes
Click here for full workshop instructions and a downloadable pack of photographs.
Tools for creating a strategic vision
The following are useful guides to various models for developing strategic vision. We think they could help develop longer-term strategies and policies. However, they may not be well suited for engaging with VCS organisations and community stakeholders.
Three Horizons Model offers a way to conceptualise change by connecting the present with desired outcomes to identify divergent futures.
This toolkit from Public Health Wales also provides some workshop ideas.
Other models include: Two Loops Model and First and Second Order Change
Tools for creating a shared vision together
A good vision must reflect many people’s hopes, not just a select few. To engage a range of stakeholders in visioning processes, we recommend the following interactive approaches:
GeoFoodie 
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