Trails to Literacy: TOOLKIT

Visioning Tools - Finding A Vision

VISIONING EXERCISE

VISITING YOUR Trails COMMUNITY

Take a few minutes; let your imagination go forward. It is five years from now. You have been away and left your community. For five years you haven't visited or had any contact with your literacy agency.

Now you are coming back, driving into the community, taking a walk around, stopping to talk to old acquaintances and strangers, too.

Now imagine, as you wander you happen to meet with a number of people: the first you remember from the Trails group when you left; the second has joined Trails recently; next you meet a community member with a visiting tourist; and finally you meet the mayor or another elected representative.

• What changes would you like to see in your community?
• What would you like each of the people you meet to say about the Trails to Literacy group and the community?
• What kind of group is Trails today?
• What are its values? What difference did Trails have on the lives of these people?
• What kind of character did the Trails group develop?
• What were the group's greatest accomplishments since you moved?
• Why did Trails to Literacy continue?

Here come the speakers. What would you like each one to say?

1. A Retired Member of the Group
2. A Current Group Member
3. A Community Member with a Tourist
4. An Elected Official

Adapted from http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~bdg/word_docs/e/E05.doc