In early 2013, Creating the Future began the work of honing our messaging – to have our website and logo and one-on-one conversations all reflect the same easy-to-grasp message of what Creating the Future is all about.
Those of you who were part of those meetings have probably been wondering what happened with all that work – especially Zach Braiker and Dave Svet, who were so willing to share their wisdom and experience (not to mention their time) to ask us prodding questions, and to then re-ask and re-ask and re-ask, encouraging us to dig deeper.
The answer is, “A ton happened.” The board and the many other teams working at Creating the Future have spent these intervening months trying on new language and imagery – both within those teams and with individuals in our communities, one-on-one and in group settings. We’ve tested to see what resonates, adjusted and tested again.
What follows is the result of all that testing. Which is to say that we are now testing it on YOU.
Moving from sound-bite tagline, to mission statement, to 100 word description & invitation, to a one-pager – here goes:
Tagline
Change the Questions, Change the World!
Mission Statement
Creating the Future’s 10 year mission is to reach a tipping point, where people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom, interconnectedness, through the questions we ask in our daily lives.
4/7/14 Edits: Per suggestions in the comments, more explicit emphasis on the vision, and more emphasis on groups in addition to individuals. As an example…
"Creating the Future envisions a world where people's day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom and interconnectedness. Our 10 year mission is to create a tipping point, where the questions people ask in their work and in their daily lives reflect that vision."
4/8/14 Edits: Per suggestions for more explicit emphasis on communities and groups. As an example…
"Creating the Future envisions communities where people are living well, individually and collectively – where the day-to-day actions of individuals and groups reflect possibility, wisdom and interconnectedness. Our 10 year mission is to create a tipping point, where the questions people ask in their work and in their daily lives reflect that vision."
100 Word Description & Invitation
Right now, a single question can connect your work to the only thing that has ever made the world a better place: our humanity.
Creating the Future’s 10 year mission is to reach a tipping point, where people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom, interconnectedness – where the questions we ask in our daily lives guide us to be the world we want to see, right here now. (Note – see revision above)
Changing the questions we ask of ourselves and others can bring out the best in ourselves, our organizations, our communities.
Come join us in the living laboratory, where people like you are pitching in, asking the questions that will create the future of our world.
One-Pager: From Theory to Action
Theory
Creating the world we want is not a matter of finding the next innovative action; it is a matter of rethinking the assumptions that go into those actions.
If we want a world that celebrates the power and collective resource that we, as a planet, all share (vs. assumptions of scarcity); a world where we bring out the best in each other (vs. suspect and compete with each other) and aim for what is possible (vs. react to what’s wrong) – those assumptions must be built into our actions.
Assumptions are the questions we are answering, that we didn’t even realize we are asking. At the heart of our decision-making and planning and everything else we do in our lives are questions. What should we do? Who should we engage with? How will we make it happen? Is there enough? And hundreds more lined up behind those.
Change the questions, and we will root those decisions and actions in Collective Enoughness – the reality that together, we have everything we need, and that it is only alone that we face scarcity.
Change the questions, and we will aim our plans and decisions at creating the future we want, vs. reacting or trying to prevent or plan for what we do NOT want.
Change the questions, and we will bring out the best in ourselves, each other, our organizations and businesses, our communities and our world.
Action
Rooted in research in the fields of neuroscience and behavioral psychology (individual behavior) and history and sociology (group behavior), along with 15 years of our own experimentation, Creating the Future’s 10 year mission is to see a tipping point in the questions that guide day-to-day living and work around the world.
Our network of changemakers spans the globe – people in all walks of life, working together and supporting each other in real life and online communities. We invite you to join them in all aspects of their work!
Research and Development:
R&D: What we're doing
Asking more effective questions means rethinking "that's just how we do things" in any organization – business, government, nonprofit. That's why every aspect Creating the Future's day-to-day work is a live R&D project, from the work of our board to our approach to program development, how we sustain our work, and everything else.
R&D: How you can participate
• Explore along with us. All our meetings are open – live streaming online with twitter parcipation via the hashtag #CTFuture. (Subscribe here to be notified of upcoming meetings.)
• Share what you love doing. Writing? Brainstorming? Whatever your talents and joys, let's explore how those gifts can move this R&D work forward!
• Be your own experiment. Put into practice what we are exploring together, and share your results with us, so that we can all build upon what each other is learning and experiencing.
Demonstration:
Demonstration: What We're Doing
Creating the Future is its own demonstration project – demonstrating what we learn, while we're learning it, as well as the results. These live case studies provide opportunity for anyone to see what the theory looks like in action.
• Internal Demonstration Project: Our board meetings, branding meetings, resource development and program development meetings – every meeting at Creating the Future streams live online as a demonstration of what it looks like in action to ask questions that bring out the best in each other. (Subscribe here to be notified of upcoming meetings.)
• External projects: We seek proof of concept projects with other organizations, to scale results broadly across a geographic region or a field of study. Examples of those projects are here.
Demonstration: How You Can Participate
• Learn along with us, during any of our meetings. (Subscribe here to be notified of upcoming meetings.)
• If your organization is interested in being part of a proof-of-concept project, let us know! Capacity building organizations, foundations, on-the-ground service organizations, businesses – if you have an idea for helping to scale our approaches, let us know!
• Be your own experiment. Put into practice what you learn from our explorations, and share your results with us, so that we can all build upon what each other is learning and experiencing.
Education:
Education: What We're Doing
From articles on narrow how-to topics, to week-long immersion courses; from 30 minute recorded webinars for people on the go to full day live workshops in communities – our education programs are taught by practitioners in the field who have done this work and seen its impact. See our education programs here.
Education: How You Can Participate
• Read our blogs and share what you learn with others.
• Take classes online
• Bring a workshop to your community (click to let us know your ideas for that)
• Become a Creating the Future fellow through our immersion courses
• Become part of our faculty! (Click to request info about our Faculty Team)
Convening & Engaging:
Convening: What We're Doing
• Sparking a different conversation: From podcasts to blogs (both in-house & mainstream) to our YouTube channel, we are asking questions that can change the world – and by asking, demonstrating questions others can ask in their own lives.
• Gathering people to inspire, support & learn from each other – online and in communities around the world.
Convening: How You Can Participate
• Use the conversations we are posting online to start your own conversations. Share those posts via social media, and start asking your own "questions that can change the world."
• Join with others who are already starting new conversations at our Facebook page and at Twitter.
• If you are a consultant, join with other consultants who are learning to ask "questions that can change the world" at our Community Benefit Consultants group at Facebook, and at our monthly #NPCons Twitter chat for consultants.
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That's what we've come up with so far. Pending the answers to our questions below, the next step is to craft a logo that conveys the energy of the work we're doing – and a website theme, and a whole new site.
For now, though, please help us to answer:
- Is this messaging clear? Through these various pieces, do you quickly see what Creating the Future is and does, and most importantly why?
- If not, what is still unclear? What questions does this raise for you about our work (and why we are doing it)?
- Does this messaging entice you to plug in, to participate in that work? Does it either make clear how you might do so, or entice you to find out?
- And lastly, are there questions we have not asked here, that we should be asking? If so – what are those questions, and what are your answers?
We can't wait to move from all this great thinking into action. And we're immensely grateful for all the help we've received in getting this far!
Hildy and team,
This is extremely exciting. I like almost everything about this. The only place that I get stuck is the language of the mission. I think for a lot of people this will be too diffuse and not easy to envision what does sucess look like.
Your stated mission is "to reach a tipping point, where people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom, interconnectedness, through the questions we ask in our daily lives."
HAving been in your iniverse for some time now I know what you mean when you use this langauge. But I think most of those we hope to reach don't. It may need another sentence or two that begins with, "so that… " and then depicts a concrete reality that is different from what we have today and that people can undestand.
Does that make sense?
It absolutely makes sense, Pearl. If you have some suggestions for language, we are eager for that assistance! HG
Beautiful. I'd like to suggest this: Fill in this blank:
"Creating the Future’s 10 year mission is to _______ in able to reach a tipping point, where people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom, interconnectedness, through the questions we ask in our daily lives."
If you put a time limit on it, then a specific strategy is integral to the mission, or its just wishful thinking. I see you have various descriptions of strategies and tactics below. But I'm not sure I can fill in that blank correctly from what you have there.
Kevin – many thanks! Any thoughts on how you would word that? Eager for assistance! HG
Pearl suggests a "so that…" sentence, coming from her more integral association with your work. I'd like to add perhaps considering construction from the perspective of Sinek's "golden circle" structure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZyg2XAmDk
which advises to start with why and then how and then what. I think you are only saying what.
Something like this:
We believe we can go *where no one has gone before* [why] by engaging every day in asking the meaningful questions [how], to reach a tipping point where people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom, and interconnectedness [what].
*of course more specific unless you are captain kirk 🙂
Kevin – I had a private conversation with someone else who suggested that the vision – the why – was not there. Our thinking was that it is indeed there – that "people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom, interconnectedness" is the why. That said, if two unrelated individuals think it is not explicit enough, clearly we can do better. HG
If I were to ask you why you believe that's important, or why I should care, and especially what might you reply?
"Creating the Future envisions a world where people's day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom and interconnectedness. Our 10 year mission is to create a tipping point, where the questions people ask in their work and in their daily lives reflect that vision."
Nice. This statement and mission works for me. IMHO, workshops and such that bring persons to that tipping point will be a great service. (I try to remember to ask myself everyday how I can be more compassionate, and I've discovered that the more I ask the more I progress towards the future I want.)
Morning,
To dovetail on Pearl's comment, I think the second paragraph in the Theory section provides the best explanation of the possible impact of your work for those who may not be familiar with it. Maybe that moves up into the 100 word statement? While often falling on still deaf ears, I usually at least see a glimmer of reaction when I speak about moving from scarcity to abundance with my co-workers. They seem to get that concept a bit.
Thanks, Jennifer! If you are finding things resonating in one section, suggesting we add it to another – that suggests to me that we are not far off. Which is quite exciting! Thanks for the specific suggestion as well. It will make it easier for us as we continue to play with this.
I agree with Pearl re: mission being a tad vague, particularly for the noob "outsider".
To that end… How (specifically) will a noob recognize that CTW has achieved its mission and is ready to tackle its next mission? For that matter, what in this text will provoke a noob to get off the couch during the Super Bowl, Final Four, World Series game 7, last episode of M.A.S.H or a late night Yentl / Sound of Music / The Notebook re-run and run to their computer to email to suggest how they might become involved? Unless of course, they do that from a phone or tablet – so they don't have to leave the couch, but they still need to be provoked to close Words with Friends or Angry Birds long enough to contact CTF 🙂
I think it needs a list of values. To whit: Assumptions (not unchanging, mind you) that set the expectations people will have when dealing with, working with, (etc) CTF. Transparency, for example. CTF's brand of transparency is not brutal, but it is so pervasive that it might seem so at first.
Mark –
1) Do you see those values included in the mission statement?
2) What wording would you add / substitute to the mission statement, to get people off the couch?
Eager for any and all wordsmithing suggestions.
HG
1) I do, but I think there are more and that there is value to explicitly stating them.
2) I dont have a good answer, but I dont want to be that guy in the back seat who keeps asking "Are we there yet?"
Mark:
In considering the questions that closed the blog post, are we close? Close enough to gather a team to wordsmith this? HG
Mark — Branding police — You must write out "Creating the Future" or you will have gremlins under bed who will remove the book mark from the place you place you left it the book you were reading in bed last night and you will not be able to find where you left off. You will never know it was them, but this is a consequence of breaking the branding cardinal rule of using the acronym for our beloved organization.
And Mark, please help me with another acronym — noob???? What is a noob?
Noob = newbie, rookie, someone who wandered in with bright eyes and said "Can I help?"…not knowing what they got themselves into:)
😉
Hildy I love the tagline, and agree with others that the mission needs a little more work. At one level, as it is, it invites curiosity to know more, which is great as long as people dig to the next layer. In the next two layers I still don't see enough examples of changing the questions to help people understand the mission. And I know that's complex to convey in a few words. I know the leadership language is very loaded, but the idea of people leading change from wherever they are, through the questions they ask around assumptions of possibilities and interconnectedness is the new wisdom Creating the Future is seeking to grow. In terms of branding that can relate to audiences outside the US, I would steer away from the kind of examples Mark has above – they don't connect at all with kiwi culture apart from perhaps the idea of getting off the couch. Hope this helps. All the best. MJ
Margy-Jean:
I love this language "the idea of people leading change from wherever they are, through the questions they ask." Thank you for that! HG
Yes this language is powerfu land should be included. It is very tangeable and speaks to an observable action we would recognize
Love much of this language – but am concerned that a certain 'individualism' still seems to dominate, that down plays 'the power of we'. I'll have a think about what it could look like, but I would like to see a higher profile given to organisations, communities and other venues we come together to build a better world (because we know that togther we can achieve much more than each of us alone). Otherwise, I'm afraid some of the language could equally apply to a religious sect or some other personal improvement programme. Keep up the great work. Kia Kaha!
Garth:
We will look forward to seeing what language you come up with. Eager for any and all suggestions! HG
I’m with you on this, Garth. Well put. I’m involved with Creating the Future because of what we do together and while the ideas work in family and other such personal settings, that to me is secondary consequence and not the purpose of Creating the Future.
I don't get to chime in very often, but a few thoughts…
I'm missing the vision. I know vision is key to Creating the Future, so I would have liked to see it here.
While I like the mission, I think it's too long for people to remember and too complex to say without tripping over the tongue. I'd take out "10 year," because people won't know where you are in the 10 years and you can always change the mission as you hit that tipping point and are ready to do other things. How about: Creating the Future’s mission is to reach a tipping point through the questions we ask, where people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom and interconnectedness.
I understand why "reaching a tipping point" is so critical. Yet, I don't know if that has to be out in the public's consciousness. I might change this yet again to: Creating the Future’s mission is to get everyone to ask the questions that result in daily actions consistently reflecting possibility, wisdom and interconnectedness.
Just S.02 worth from someone who has been a bit outside lately!
I think Terrie's articulation is closer to what I need to see. What is then says is that a concrete vision of success is that people are asking the right kind of questions that lead to… etc.
Is that enough? Do you want people doing more than asking questions?
I agree with Terrie's comments in another setting (soon here?): the lack of a vision is jarring, especially from a movement that taught me the critical value of that larger purpose. That transformed my thinking and my understanding of what draws all of us to the work (whether CTF's movement or other visions driving other organizations).
Not sure what I think about the mission. Also wary of wordsmithing via the Internet. So I'll leave that one alone for now.
Well, a valuable comment, IMHO, but I'm moved to rejoin, and I mean this respectfully.
When you are "jarred by the lack of vision" that doesn't necessarily mean you are jarred by nothing to see but perhaps by seeing nothing.
Kevin:
As a point of clarification, our Creating the Future's fellows expect to see the vision stated explicitly, front and center. What is jarring to them is the fact that that was not in the original statement. (Or at least I believe that is the case, as I realize I am speaking for them. Always dangerous!)
HG
So Hildy doesn't have to speak for others – If the community we want is our ultimate point of reference – meaning we are evaluating all we do against advancing that – we must hold that banner clearly out for everyone to see so they clearly know what we stand for and are willing to be held accountable to. So the explicity is important. If it is implied, then it must be infered and this leaves room for it to be mis-infered and/or just totally missed.
Thanks Hildy and Justin.
This is a mind/world changing mission. If you achieve this tipping point with one person then you succeed, IMHO.
Sincerely,
Kevin
I support what Terrie and Debra said about the lack of vision. We start every discussion by looking to the mountains, but where are the mountains in this? If "people’s day-to-day actions reflect possibility, wisdom, interconnectedness” what will the world be like? I am REALLY uncomfortable seeing any Mission statement here that doesn’t follow a Vision statement.
Hildy, thank you fo adding a vision since I started these comments, but it now comes after the Mission – which I find jarring wrong given the Creating the Future approach. But it doesn't work for me. See above from Garth about collective action. And it's way too long. And what will actually be different in the world if people acted the way you describe? Sorry but I don't yet have succinct new wording, nor is that my strength.
Hi Hildy — I think you've asked about 10 times so here goes — an actual sentence in lieu of the mission statement you have now which I confess I dunnah like.
"Our mission is to discover, validate, and promote ways of thinking, planning, and acting in the community benefit sector that stimulate people to tap their communities' inherent capability and strength and aims everything we do at our highest potential."
I confess I don't know what it means to create a tipping point in 10 years. That means nothing to me. The above is something I can feel and experience. It's do-able and practical. It's WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Submitted with huge respect and appreciation. And love. A
Andrea:
Just as a point of clarification, our work is not limited to any sector. As a matter of fact, the next immersion course we develop will be for consultants to businesses – and then a course for business leaders. The demonstration project we are doing as part of the Creating the Future / PANO conference is another case in point, with a huge focus on cross-sectoral thinking and working.
If the world is going to change, it will not be any siloed sector that will change it. It will be that the questions we all ask – in our day-to-day decision-making and planning and resourcing and overall ways we engage and build networks with each other – in groups and as individuals, will consistently meet people where they are and create favorable conditions for them to achieve what’s possible.
Just wanted to clarify that.
HG
The whole context for whatever we do is creating a world that works for humanity and is built on strength and aims at our highest potential. It's about community benefit. Whether we work with nonprofits or for-profits seems to me to be a point of strategy. Do we see corporations as outside the community benefit sector? Who says? In working with consultants to for-profits businesses are we agnostic or is the context of this work community benefit? Make sense?
I'm just resisting the word "sector" as it is a term of exclusion and confusion. If we want to blur sector lines, then we can do that by ignoring sectors, period, and talk about the work we all do. If we change the questions asked in every corporation, then things will change simply by changing. So it's the word I'm reacting to, as exclusionary by definition.
I first want to acknolwedge that we are all talking about the potential for anyone and any entity to be a part of this – and that we actually want everyone to engage. So I appreciate the need to present language that makes everyone feel like there is a way for them to be a part of it. But it is a hurdle as people self-silo.
My example is that I am trynig to figure out how to position my work, traditionally called "consulting," to one that is defined as partnership. I don't use the word "client" becuase they (whomever they are) are not a client. They are a partner in my vision to create a community were equity, dignity, respect, and an healthy environment exists for everyone. I just have a strategy that is facilitative as opposed to delivery.
Agree with vision comments an was that "other" person that contacted Hildy. I have a couple of philosphical points and some word-praising and word-critiquing
Philosophical: The labels Vision, Mission, Tag-Line, and even Theory come with a lot of baggage. I feel they lead people to ask "is that really a mission/vision/tag line…" So my questions is what happens when we don't lead people with those terms.
Don't call it a vision. Just make the declaritive statement about what we want at the start of everything…
"Creating the Future envisions a world where the questions asked, the answers pursued, and people's day-to-day actions reflect the abundant possibility, wisdom and interconnectedness that will change the world for the better"
Don't call it a mission. Just state what we believe and what we will do…
"Creating the Future is facilitating a collective, community-wide tipping point (within the next 10 year) where the questions we ask in our daily lives bring out the best in ourselves, our organizations, our communities and guide us to be the world we want to see, right here now."
(not sure about the 10 years part since that number should decrease every year – perhaps it has to say "by 2024")
(also, I feel like the tipping-point needs a descriptor – I added community-wide, but this gets at Garth's "we" comments)
Word-praising and word-critiquing (if the above wasn't enough)
Echoing Jennfier, that second paragraph under Theory is powerful. The change I suggest is moving the parantheticals out. To me, they are negative statements that counter the momentum that can build be just liting the positives. I'd take them out and let the positive energy and perspective snowball up. Then have a followup sentence that says something like "this approach will/can upend the assumptions of scarity, the need to compete and hold others suspect, and the continual reacting to what is wrong. It reorients us to what will make the right stuff happen and how to make more of that for each other" – Then I see this paragraph leading the Theory section, as it declariticely states what we want to make possible and how.
I feel that the 100-word piece needs to say something more about how people can engage. To Marks' comment, I feel we need some language about how accessible this is. Not just access to Creating the Future and all we do, but also how "anyone" can do what we are talking about doing. And, in fact, the brilliance is in the simplicity or changing the questions and allowing the space for authentic answers to emerge, But I don't have that language yet…I'll ponder
Andrea, posted while I was writing. Thanks for calling out the "tipping-point" jargon. I like the more explicit language about what it looks like.
We will continue to work on the mission statement. We'll gather a few good wordsmithing minds to get that done.
The main question now is about the overall message – all the other stuff that is not the mission statement. Is it clear what Creating the Future is and what we do? Are we ready to create a logo from this overall message?
I feel like the Action section needs more explicit examples of the role of inquiry in each of the areas – I think it is getting close under R&D, but highlighting how inquiry is encouraged and what we believe it is making possible in each of the areas (R&D, Demonstration, and Education) would reinforce the message and keep that theme everpresent as people read through it.
I also feel like we could say more about what having people engage in each of these areas makes possible for hte movement. That way we make the case for them engaging becuase of how it informs and grows success and then we tell them how they can do it.
Also, just popped into my head, should we have an ask in there somewhere about people sharing any other ways they think they could engage and support the effort…
Justin:
From this, it feels like we are in the right direction – that overall, this provides the essence of who /what / why – and that yes, it needs help in this section or that wording, but that overall it feels ok? Am I reading that correctly?
This is one of the most important tasks we need to complete, to be able to move on to actually accomplishing all we wrote here. So it is really really important to know: Is it clear? Does this come close? Is it headed in the right direction, so that we could instruct a team of wordsmiths to finalize it?
BTW I love the idea of adding inquiry to each piece. Trying to envision how that might fit. Any thoughts about that?
To answer the questions posed…
• Is this messaging clear? Through these various pieces, do you quickly see what Creating the Future is and does, and most importantly why?
I think this is where I struggle the most, so I guess I have to say that it is not. I think I'm now conditioned to the the Why-How-What progression and I'm feeling that the what is there but the why and how pieces are buried too much.
While our vision of a better community is there, I think a key piece of the vision is that we, Creating the Future, believe that everyone can contribute to changing the world simply by changing how they inquire. So it's envisioning a world where everyone inquires about the future they want and can unlock passion, wisdom, and interconnectedness to chart a path to making that better future possible.
The reason I keep coming back to inquiry is that I see that as different than questions. Questions are the what, the doing. Inquiry is the state of mind and approach that includes the curiosity, humility, and persistence needed to understand and deconstruct something – the impetus to ask the "right" questions – the questions that will actually provide answers that reveal pathways. Questions are the tools you use to express/engage in inquiry.
So I'm feeling like we are missing that HOW link. It's missing clarity about what that orientation to inquiry looks like and how it is really the lever for change we are working to put in place. It is the piece that each person can do, own, and individualize.
I think there needs to be more expression of "We believe you (everyone) can change the future. We believe we can make the world better for everyone. We believe it's actually quite simple (this doesn't mean easy, as change is hard – but determining what needs to change isn't so difficult)
• Does this messaging entice you to plug in, to participate in that work? Does it either make clear how you might do so, or entice you to find out?
I believe with the above emphasis on beliefs about change, it would be more enticing. I think we need to emphasize the mutual learning involved in our actions to model that the opportunities to engage are about us actually getting the work done (we are modeling) through wisdom, passion, and interconnectedness and that each of the actions are also a place for people to see and learn how it is done.
• And lastly, are there questions we have not asked here, that we should be asking? If so – what are those questions, and what are your answers?
We need to ask, what else do "you" (the people reading this) think you could do to contribute to this movement.
I realized that I am not honoring all that has gone into this. This blog is rich with all that we are and I get it when I read it. My comments come from a place where not everyone connects the dots as easily as many of us do, so I am pushing us to be sure we are not leaving things to chance or to being infered.
Thanks to everyone for making this initial post possible. For without it, there would be no space for this dialog.
What amazing feedback everyone.
I have been quiet, reading the input, and watching the evolution, and have had a similar feeling to Justin's. I also feel there are levels of thinking, and believing that are implied in what has been written most definitely, yet not spelled out.
At the same time, I'm also well aware that language like "Being in the Inquiry" is not as concrete, nor will it reach as many as "Asking the Questions"… Hmmmmm…
I guess what we're doing, is we're all learning about what it means to meet people where they are at, and how that then opens the door to the deeper conversations. I for one am content with the wording, and that it does that… I'll need to revisit later after being away from it a bit to make sure, but for now that's how I'm feeling.
To Hildy and all those participating in the exploration… Please know how much I appreciate all the work that is going into this boat we are all sailing in, and how much I welcome being in the compassionate exploration with all of you.
It truly is an honour to be a part of this community.
In Gratitude, and In Spirit,
Trae