We will never perceive the world in the same way again, knowing that the future will be very different from the present. Further, future thinking is now an established part of planning processes and this applies to planning education as well as planning practice. Global factors and forces such as climate change, Peak Oil, the financial meltdown, pandemics, storms, floods and drought are contributing to community anxiety about the future.2 Particularly in hard times, we can use creative and innovative approaches to help local communities imagine and come to grips with their futures. Community visioning as a community engagement method has been used in a number of ways to infuse hope and support palpable action. But as with the word ‘sustainability’, the widespread use of ‘visioning’ has resulted in unclear meanings that are sometimes confusing and may not lead to ‘solutions’ to planning or other community problems. We need a clear and collective means to dream our way forward. Beginning with an apology to the Mayor of Antwerp, this chapter explores some definitional problems associated with the term ‘visioning’ and then presents a brief history of where visioning came from and where it is headed.