Jane Garthson Amazing people have now met twice to figure out the wonderful possibilities of a story-telling platform that helps people apply Catalytic Thinking to all their relationships, situations and daily lives. Wow! Together we’ve explored the highest potential of the platform and for whom. We’ve identified a long list of people who could benefit, directly and … Read more
Nine amazing people gathered on April 26th to discuss, “What will it take to make the Catalytic Thinking in Action story platform reach its highest potential?” Read on to see the richness of that discussion. As I’ve come to expect whenever Creating the Future folks get together, the conversation was focussed on making anyone who … Read more
We are going to have an amazing repository of stories about using catalytic thinking in our work, personal lives and community life! The first meeting rocked our world, and expanded an idea for a simple blog into a communication platform, virtual coffee house and one key way to achieve Creating the Future’s mission. Read a … Read more
On April 5th, thirteen people passionate about the possibilities of sharing how catalytic thinking is being used gathered to begin shaping a communications platform to make that happen. They agreed the platform would be a repository that allows for individual efforts to be scaled towards making Catalytic Thinking the norm. People will be looking for … Read more
Watch our first meeting held on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 LISTEN TO THE MEETING HERE or Download the MP3 (To download to your hard drive, right-click {or click and hold on a Mac} on the link above and select “Save Target As”.. or “Save Link as”… depending on your browser) What would it make possible … Read more
It’s time for another strategic plan – yay! Wait, that wasn’t your reaction? Is it because you didn’t enjoy your last planning sessions? Or because that last plan didn’t really make a difference? If you are frustrated by the lack of significant results from your prior plans, and you’re not looking forward to your group’s … Read more
If you've been following the progression of the Faculty Development efforts at Creating the Future, you know that we started by asking high potential questions – what would success look like? From there, we established the pre-conditions for success – what must instructors be and have in order to achieve those outcomes? (For prior posts … Read more
The quality of life in our communities is hugely affected by the work of many, many small groups of people who give their time to make something better. Over time, they attract community resources – volunteers, donations, gifts in kind, free use of community space. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the goal of our … Read more