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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!
What a ride we’ve been on! As you all encouraged in the blog post that started all this, 30 days ago we set out to raise $9,500 to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.org and CreatingTheFuture.com. And I confess that when we started this final week of the campaign with just $3,500, we were more than … Read more
After all the discussion that led to our name change, it’s here! What do you think? Dimitri has been working to create a logo that matches the name you all helped us find. We are pretty excited about the simplicity, the sense of action, and the connection to the thing that matters most – creating … Read more
Yesterday I lamented that we all feel we don’t have time to think. And that the reason we don’t have time to think is that we don’t make time to think. Which is to say that we don’t value thinking near as much as we value doing. Nowhere is this more evident than in the … Read more
The conversation I shared yesterday, with a young social change agent trying to find his path, brought up for me an issue that is glaringly absent in almost all discussions of “best practice” in the social change arena. Put simply, we devalue thinking, exploring, experimenting. What we value is “doing.” When individuals take time for … Read more
Just a quick update for those who have been helping us raise money to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.com/.org. We have almost doubled last week’s total – a huge leap forward! After some last-minute giving via Facebook and Twitter, the total in the Domain Campaign fund is (drumroll please…) $3,000 exactly! (Thanks to some folks … Read more
An interesting discussion ensued on Facebook the other day. As I pondered a blog post that has been brewing in my mind, I asked, “Coaches: I’m working on a list of the ways coaching is different from consulting. Any ideas / thoughts?” I was not prepared for 18 responses, some contradicting others, all of which … Read more
This was just going to be a quick post to update everyone on our progress in raising money to purchase the domain names CreatingTheFuture.org and .com. But something happened this morning that moved me so deeply, that I wanted to share. So first, I hope you will bear with me as I share a story. … Read more
People in the community benefit sector, all over the world, are doing the work that makes our communities livable, joyful, warm and inviting and healthy and strong. This sector’s work is about compassion, resilience, health. It is about vibrancy, humanity. Our work is about caring for children, for the elderly. For people living with illness, … Read more
The following is a post that CharityChannel CEO Steve Nill posted to CharityChannel’s Consultants forum this morning, as he considered the work we are proposing with the CDI Demonstration Project. Because CharityChannel is only available by paid subscription, Steve had copied his post into the comments here. After re-reading Steve’s thought-filled post several times, I … Read more
So much of the discussion of yesterday’s Name Change blog post happened in the comments, that I’m making this a separate post. If you haven’t read those comments, please do so here. The conversation truly took my breath away. In that discussion you will see that we are going to move forward to raise money … Read more