It’s strategic planning time – the time to dream big, to reach for what is possible! Except we all know that’s not really what happens. At the end of the session, our biggest goal – if we’re lucky – might be to create a new program aimed at a small fraction of the problems our … Read more
For the past few months, Creating the Future has embarked on one of our biggest experiments yet – engaging our community in a global Catalytic Thinking process, to determine what’s next for our mission. As we prepared for our December Integrity Body meeting, we realized that the only ones who haven’t had a chance to … Read more
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
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
In Part 1 of this post, we shared the responses we have received to Question 1 of our inquiry about the future of this organization. In this post, we are sharing the responses to Questions 2 and 3. (If you have not yet responded to our inquiry, we hope you will do so here. We … Read more
Members of Creating the Future’s community have been asked to help determine what’s next for the work of our mission. Yes, we are handing over the decision about the future of the organization to the community who will benefit from that work. And not surprisingly, we are using Catalytic Thinking to do so. In this … Read more
Creating the Future’s Integrity Team (board) Meeting: Monday, November 14, 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
NOTE: This inquiry wrapped up in late 2022. We’ve saved this page as part of the archives of that whole process. That said, if you feel inspired to share your thoughts with us, we are always happy to know what you’re thinking! Welcome! We are so glad you are joining this conversation. Together, we will … Read more
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
For the past few months, Creating the Future has been applying Catalytic Thinking to the topic of engagement – convening our community members to determine what’s next for this organization. All along this journey, we have shared the conversations that led to the action plan we’ll be kicking off in the next few weeks. You … Read more