The forecasting/backcasting tool is part of the Futures family of facilitation approaches, and it presents an invaluable but relatively simple approach to bringing ideas about the future into our current thinking, planning, and strategizing in community work. Using these tools can help individuals and groups to facilitate a visioning or planning process that is grounded in evidence and lived experience, but which aims to positively disrupt our sets of expectations about our shared future and how we might develop ways of working which brings these aspirational futures into being with a degree of purpose and engagement.