Tricia Friedman

Future Foresight

Facilitating conversations in your community

FETCH Framework Facilitator Guide
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FETCH Framework • Facilitator Guide

Exploring Signals of Change

This interactive guide is designed to help school leaders facilitate a short future-focused discussion using the FETCH framework: Find, Explain, Tie, Challenge, Hypothesize.

The guide centers a structured thinking exercise rather than problem-solving. It helps participants notice, listen, and imagine together while exploring what signals of change might mean for belonging, friendship, and community in schools.

Session framing

  • This is not a problem-solving meeting.
  • It is a structured conversation to notice what is changing.
  • Use the prompts to surface assumptions and open new questions.
  • Capture emerging ideas directly in the notes fields as you facilitate.

At a glance

35 minTotal suggested time
6 phasesIntro + FETCH sequence
InteractiveTimers, notes, progress
Future-focusedSignals, assumptions, possibilities
Before you begin

This is not a how-to video. It is a reset.

Before you facilitate, take a minute to notice the stance of the page. This is not about rushing toward answers. It is about slowing down long enough to spot signals, surface assumptions, and stay with the questions that might actually matter.

Notice before you solve
Use the walkthrough to get grounded in the rhythm of the experience.
Move with intention
The page is built to help you guide reflection, not perform certainty.
Let the tension stay visible
Capture what feels unfinished. That is often where the real conversation starts.

Selected signals

These signals focus on how adults are seeing technology augment the way they connect. Use the embedded deck as a shared visual reference while you move through the conversation.

Open signal deck
Signal 1
Donut Channels shows how workplace technology can actively scaffold introductions, celebrations, and low-stakes conversation across teams.
Signal 2
Seoul’s “mind convenience stores” suggest that institutions may increasingly design hybrid, practical spaces to respond to loneliness and fragmented connection.
Signal 3
Timeleft turns meeting strangers into a structured weekly ritual, showing how platforms can organize social connection as a repeatable experience.

Facilitator controls

Move through the sequence, track progress, and save notes in your browser automatically.

Progress 0 of 6 phases completed
No phase selected yet.

Conversation flow

Each phase includes a purpose, optional prompts, a timer, and space for facilitator notes.

Notes actions

Collect everything typed across the page into one shareable draft.

Pull all notes into one place

Generate a single summary block from every phase so it can be copied into email, docs, or a follow-up message.

What gets included

Each section pulls in the phase name, completion status, remaining timer, and any notes typed by the facilitator.

That makes it easy to send a quick recap right after the session.

Guide link

Use the button below to open the facilitator guide.

Open facilitator guide
FETCH Framework Facilitator Guide
Quick move
FETCH Framework • Facilitator Guide

Exploring Signals of Change

This interactive guide is designed to help school leaders facilitate a short future-focused discussion using the FETCH framework: Find, Explain, Tie, Challenge, Hypothesize.

The guide centers a structured thinking exercise rather than problem-solving. It helps participants notice, listen, and imagine together while exploring what signals of change might mean for belonging, friendship, and community in schools.

Session framing

  • This is not a problem-solving meeting.
  • It is a structured conversation to notice what is changing.
  • Use the prompts to surface assumptions and open new questions.
  • Capture emerging ideas directly in the notes fields as you facilitate.

At a glance

35 minTotal suggested time
6 phasesIntro + FETCH sequence
InteractiveTimers, notes, progress
Future-focusedSignals, assumptions, possibilities

Facilitator controls

Move through the sequence, track progress, and save notes in your browser automatically.

Progress 0 of 6 phases completed
No phase selected yet.

Conversation flow

Each phase includes a purpose, optional prompts, a timer, and space for facilitator notes.

Guide link

Use the button below to open the facilitator guide.

Open facilitator guide