Backcasting is a valuable, established visioning tool. It works in the following way. When you have guided your participants to a future time and place and they have experienced its qualities, it’s time to return to the present and record the journey. While still in the future time, you can ask your participants to reflect (or to listen to the voices of people and/or beings and elements of that future time): ‘How did you get here?’ It’s often helpful to ask what needed to change to bring about this new future (or these new futures). Spending adequate time on this stage of the process is important because it can yield valuable insights. It’s critical that this backcasting instruction not be lost in the drawing and recording stage.