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

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

Catalytic Thinking in Action: A Case Study from our Facebook Group

Creating the Future hosts several online communities, currently housed at Facebook. Our “big tent” group is for folks who want more exposure to and practice with Catalytic Thinking. It is appropriately called the Catalytic Thinking in Action group. As that group has grown, there has been a growing need for facilitation to make the experience … Read more

Practice Catalytic Thinking by Volunteering!

If you have wanted to experience Catalytic Thinking in real time, this is the opportunity for you – volunteering as a documentarian for meetings at Creating the Future!  The job itself is simple, because Catalytic Thinking guides all our conversations. • Attend one or more of our meetings each month (each meeting is 2 hours … Read more