Community Engagement:
Catalytic Thinking Practice Cohort
Here’s your chance to engage and activate
your community using Catalytic Thinking –
guided by Creating the Future founder, Hildy Gottlieb
In this program, we will practice Catalytic Thinking with a real-life issue – community engagement - using Creating the Future as the example (and if you're ready for it, your own organization as well!)
Do you have a community engagement plan
for your organization?
This will not be a “theory class” (although you will learn plenty of theory along the way). We will create a real plan, aimed at real action - a real time case study. Whatever we co-design together, Creating the Future will implement immediately, and YOU will be able to use as a model in your own community engagement efforts!
What this means for your COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS:
What this means for your CATALYTIC THINKING Practice:
- If you have played with Catalytic Thinking and want experience in REAL TIME with a REAL ISSUE to build your confidence in the framework…
- If you learn best by putting theory into ACTION, learning by DOING…
- If you are seeking MORE EFFECTIVE DECISION-MAKING processes for any issue or situation (vs. throwing ideas against the wall to see what sticks, a.k.a. brainstorming)…
- If you want to PRACTICE ALONGSIDE PEOPLE LIKE YOU, to connect with people who are also experimenting with Catalytic Thinking on their own...
- And if you are excited to be guided in all that by Creating the Future founder, Hildy Gottlieb…
You will love this program!
Program Details
What is it?
This is a real-world opportunity to design your own community enagement plan, using Catalytic Thinking as your guide. IT IS ALSO a facilitated learning and practice experience, applying Catalytic Thinking to a real-world issue – community engagement planning. Because this program will provide BOTH those results!
What will you be practicing?
How to apply Catalytic Thinking to the important issue of community engagement. You’ll get practical experience and tons of support, to apply what you learn to your own work environment – all from your own desk! Check out the "What You'll Get" section below.
Who is it for?
If you need to more deeply engage your community in your work...
If you want your efforts to be more inclusive in all ways...
If you want to practice Catalytic Thinking with expert guidance and support, with a real topic, to gain experience and confidence...
This program is for you!
Great for beginners just putting a toe in, and for more experienced practitioners. We will go at your pace!
How will it work?
• This cohort will be small - no more than 20 people - to ensure that everyone receives as much as possible from the program.
• Upon registering, you will receive videos and worksheets for a self-paced intro / refresher on Catalytic Thinking
• Facilitated Catalytic Thinking practice sessions focused on community engagement, alongside Creating the Future's board / integrity team – twice monthly during June, July, and August of February 2022 (6 sessions). Each session will be 2 hours long, to be able to dive deeply into the topic. We will use Creating the Future as the case study, to have a single example to focus on.
• In between those sessions, we will schedule additional Q&A sessions via Zoom (up to 6 additional sessions), just for cohort members (not the board), for sharing, practicing, asking questions, addressing issues that are specific to your your own situations. Each of these sessions will be 2 hours long, to provide adequate time to practice, share, and learn.
• If the group feels it would be helpful, we will coordinate text-based chat "office hours."
• All video session will be recorded, in case you have a scheduling conflict for any of the dates.
• Upon completion, Creating the Future will create a written report detailing the process and the results, for you to share with your own teams.
When are the Facilitated Sessions? And when are the Q&A Sessions?
The facilitated Succession Planning sessions will coincide with our board's Integrity Conversations. They will happen via Zoom, recorded for those who miss a session.
Monday, June 13: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
Monday, June 27: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
Monday, July 11: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
Thursday, July 14: 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern
Monday, August 8: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
Tuesday, August 30: 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern
The cohort-only Zoom Q&A sessions will fit with YOUR schedule. We will work together to find times that work for the cohort, to be sure you can participate. And for those times when you can't make it, all sessions will be recorded.
What You'll Get:
- A model community engagement plan to apply to your own organization
- The opportunity to work on your plan alongside peers and alongside Creating the Future's team, as we create a real plan for Creating the Future, that can be used as a model for your own organization
- A combined focus on a single case study - Creating the Future - as well as individual focus on your own organization
- 12+ hours of live facilitation, in 2 hour sessions spread over 3 months, so that you can slowly absorb and practice on your own.
- Written summaries of the facilitated sessions, for easy reference when you’re applying it yourself - and to share with colleagues, board members, donors, and other community members who have been encouraging you to think about more meaningful community engagement.
- Up to 12 additional hours of live Q&A sessions via Zoom between the facilitated sessions, to connect with Creating the Future’s team and with each other – to ask questions, share stories, and support each other.
- Real-time text-based chat "Office Hours," to stay connected when you can't join in on Zoom (to be scheduled as needed by the cohort).
- All video sessions will be recorded, to refer back to whenever you need to.
- Worksheets for your own projects
- Recorded classes on Catalytic Thinking, to refer to for your own work and life
- And more
What is the Tuition:
This program is
available by donation.
We ask that you contribute
no more than you can afford,
and no less than you feel it is worth.
The more you practice Catalytic Thinking for one topic, the more comfortable and confident you will feel to apply it to your work and your life.
Your Instructor
