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This area is filled with how-to articles, engaging conversations, and tons of examples of Catalytic Thinking in Action including actual planning sessions. Much to explore and learn from!
Creating the Future is reinventing itself, to ensure our organizational structure is not only supporting our efforts to accomplish our mission, but is modeling our vision and values in every way. The following summarizes our efforts through the end of 2015, as we head into our January 2016 meeting on the subject. For a complete … Read more
At our December meeting, we made great strides in determining the pre-conditions for success if our organizing structure is to accomplish our mission. We will be blogging as summary of that meeting in the next day or two – including a schematic of what that structure might look like. During our meeting on January 11th, … Read more
As we announced in one of our recent eJournals, the Education team at Creating the Future is in the process of developing a whole new online curriculum to teach what had formerly been available only in 5-day on-site immersion courses. Having just completed the BETA of Catalytic Thinking 101, we are about to begin the … Read more
In preparation for the continued discussion of the organizational structure that will support Creating the Future to accomplish its mission, the following are the questions we will be exploring during our meeting on Monday, December 14. • Within each aspects of our structure (listed below), what do people need to feel in order to bring … Read more
Creating the Future’s December Board / Community Meeting will take place right here on Monday, December 14th at 1pm ET / 10am PT. Watch the meeting live and share your ideas, questions, and observations by tweeting to the hashtag #CTFuture. If the video does not appear precisely on the hour, please be patient (and reload the … Read more
Creating the Future is at a jumping off point – a point where the results of our work are poised to scale exponentially to accomplish our mission. To facilitate that leap forward, on November 5th our community began discussing the question of organizational structure. (Watch or download and listen to that meeting here.) What form … Read more
Vision: The future your work is aimed at creating for the world. At Creating the Future, we envision a world where everyone is living well, individually and collectively. We know such a world is possible, simply because it is not impossible. Mission: The result you are vowing to accomplish – the condition(s) you are vowing … Read more
We use the term “Collective Enoughness” so much at Creating the Future, as part of our Theory of Change and pretty much every action we take. If you’ve been wondering about our definition of that term, here it is: Collective Enoughness The economic theory that together we have everything we need; it is only on … Read more
Being a living laboratory means Creating the Future is always seeking others who are experimenting with different organizational forms. You can therefore imagine our joy to learn about the work being done at New Zealand based Enspiral!Per their website, “Enspiral is a bold experiment to create a collaborative network that helps people do meaningful work.” The … Read more
“Is there a way to change your org into a unit of movement capacity and momentum?” That was the question posed by CompassPoint CEO Jeanne Bell when my article about “Organizations vs Movements” was posted at Stanford Social Innovation Review. As our own board at Creating the Future will continue its inquiry into this very … Read more