Practice Catalytic Thinking by Volunteering!

If you have wanted to practice Catalytic Thinking with others, focusing on real issues (not theory), this is the opportunity for you – volunteering as a documentarian for Creating the Future’s board meetings! Our board uses Catalytic Thinking to explore every issue that arises. That keeps our actions aligned with our values, and allows us … Read more

What’s Next for our Mission: Discussion (Integrity / Board meeting November 2023)

Creating the Future’s Integrity Body (Board) Meeting: Monday, November 13, 2023 10am-12pm Pacific time / 1pm-3pm Eastern time / 6pm-8pm UK time Topic: Next Steps for Our Mission Watch the meeting LIVE at this post. Just scroll to the very bottom of the page. Details about how to participate are below. Next Steps for Our … Read more

Creating the Future: Coming to Your Community!

Every few years, Creating the Future’s founders take our mission on the road, sharing Catalytic Thinking with communities within a specific region. Before the pandemic, they drove from the top to the bottom of California. In years past, they’ve gone as far from their home in Tucson, Arizona as the eastern US, visiting 20+ communities … Read more

What’s Next for Creating the Future? December 2022 Integrity Conversation

Creating the Future’s Integrity Team (board) Meeting: Monday, December 12, 2022 10am-12pm Pacific time / 1pm-3pm Eastern time / 6pm-8pm UK time Topic: What’s Next for Creating the Future? Watch the meeting LIVE at this post. Just scroll to the very bottom of the page. Details about how to participate are below. What’s Next for … Read more

Next Step: Facilitated Conversations to determine the future of Creating the Future

Creating the Future is asking our community to determine what’s next for our mission. And we’re using Catalytic Thinking to guide that effort. You can see our action plan here. So far, we have put into motion the first 5 out of the 9 steps in that plan. Those steps all centered around written responses … Read more

Community Engagement: Action Plan 2022

Creating the Future spent this summer applying Catalytic Thinking to a plan for engaging our community in the most important conversation we could have: Determining what’s next for this organization’s mission. You can see summaries of those conversations linked at this post. And you can see the final plan at this link. As part of … Read more

Community Engagement Planning: August 30, 2022

Community Engagement Planning Conversation: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 12pm-2pm Pacific time / 3pm-5pm Eastern time / 8pm-10pm UK time Watch the meeting LIVE at this post. Just scroll to the very bottom of the page. Details about how to participate are below. Crafting a Community Engagement Plan Over the past few months, the conversations of … Read more

Community Engagement Planning: SUMMARY of Meeting #5

Our planning conversations continue – and this one was a lively one, as we seek to wrap up this plan by the end of August. You can watch the whole conversation at this link. Please join us for the final meeting in this process on August 30 – info about that meeting is here. For … Read more

Community Engagement Planning: You’re Invited! June 13, 2022

Community Engagement Planning Conversation: Monday, June 13, 2022 12pm – 2pm Pacific time Watch the meeting LIVE at this post. Just scroll to the very bottom of the page. Details about how to participate are below. Crafting a Community Engagement Plan Over the past few months, the conversations of our Integrity Body (known in most … Read more

What’s Next for Creating the Future? Integrity Conversation April 21, 2022: Summary

For the past several months, Creating the Future’s Integrity Body (aka our board) has been focusing on what’s next for Creating the Future’s mission. This line of inquiry began last October, when we began applying the questions of Catalytic Thinking to the topic of succession planning. By the time we got to the question “What does … Read more