When It Is Used
Use this tool after strengths and positive experiences have been identified and before design commitments are created.
Preferred Future / Dream Statement
The Preferred Future / Dream Statement is a collaboration tool for practitioners working with a client, team, or system after strengths have been identified. It helps articulate a clear desired future that reflects participant values and builds on positive experiences and strengths.
Draft a sample Dream statement
Interested in using Preferred Future / Dream Statement with clients? Request access now.
Request access
Request access to Preferred Future / Dream Statement. Enter your email below.
Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Produces
The result is a desired-future statement with visible grounding in strengths and prior successes, plus any unresolved wording alternatives.
Important Limits
The tool does not create action plans, assign owners, score aspirations, evaluate feasibility, or generate the future-state content on behalf of participants.
Does the tool write the Dream statement automatically?
No. Participants and the practitioner supply the future-state language; the system organizes drafts and structural checks.
Can the tool be used without prior strengths?
Yes. Drafting can begin without prior strengths, but the result should show that grounding in identified strengths is unresolved.
Can there be multiple versions of the aspiration?
Yes. Candidate wording can remain as alternatives until the practitioner consolidates or confirms one shared version.
Is the result an action plan?
No. The result is an aspirational future-state statement for later design work, not a task list or implementation plan.