Chiropractic 2025:

Chiropractic 2025: Divergent Futures
How to Use the Chiropractic 2025 Scenarios
The purpose of using scenarios is to prompt the examination of future challenges and opportunities that will impact
an organization or a field. For chiropractic, these scenarios can help individuals, leaders, and organizations within
the field take advantage of future or emerging opportunities, prepare for or prevent new challenges, and improve
the overall status and position of chiropractic. Stepping inside each scenario and exploring the implications for
today’s prevailing assumptions, strategies, and goals is critical for this process. To aid in this process, IAF has
provided instructions for how to conduct your own scenario workshop. These are available on IAF’s website at
www.altfutures.org/chiropracticfutures.
The next section presents the scenarios, as well as a matrix that allows for comparison of key factors across the
four futures. Each scenario begins with a vignette about life in that future, followed by the complete scenario
narrative. As you read the scenarios, approach them with an open mind and a willingness to challenge your own
assumptions about the future. As you read and think about the scenarios consider several questions: What would my
life and chiropractic practice be like in that future? What are the scenarios’ implications for health, health care, and
chiropractic? What would you do in that scenario that you do not do today? If you doubt the scenario’s plausibility,
ask yourself what would need to change in order to make it plausible? Which scenario do you think is most likely,
and which is most preferable? What can you do to make the “preferred future” more likely? What chiropractors
think, feel, and actually do in answering these questions as they use these scenarios is extremely important. It is your
future to understand and to create.
Then, as we have in our previous chiropractic scenario reports, IAF offers our recommendations for the profession.
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