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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!

Curriculum Development: Catalytic Listening Meeting #1

On January 27, 2016 Creating the Future’s Faculty Team met to begin crafting the second course in our new curriculum – Catalytic Listening. And as we do with everything at Creating the Future, we are using the framework of Catalytic Strategy to develop that program! What will learning / teaching Catalytic Listening make possible? For whom? … Read more

Building a Thriving Organizational Ecosystem

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

January 2016 Board / Community Meeting

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

Organizational Structure – Questions for the December 14th Discussion

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

Organizational Structure That Accomplishes Change Board Meeting Dec-14

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

Structure as an Active Participant in Organizational Success

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

Feeling Prepared to Teach

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

Collective Enoughness

We use the term “Collective Enoughness” so much at Creating the Future. 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 our own that we experience scarcity. In this interconnected and interdependent world, together we … Read more

Reinventing Organizations as Movements: Chloe Waretini (Making Change Broadcast)

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