Budgeting for strength in scary times

Current e-Journal – April 8, 2025 Budgeting from a Place of Strength In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements   Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Budgeting from a Place of Strength Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements Come See Hildy in NY State! Come join Creating the Future and NYCON (New York Council of … Read more

How to find your HEART peeps

Current e-Journal – March 25, 2025 How to find your HEART peeps In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements   Catalytic Thinking Exercise: The best defense is… Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements How are you?  These days it feels important to ask that of each other – and to give our … Read more

The best defense is…

Current e-Journal – March 18, 2025 The best defense is… In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements   Catalytic Thinking Exercise: The best defense is… Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements New Zealand subscribers: We’re bringing Creating the Future and Catalytic Thinking to Aotearoa live and in person! Several of our NZ … Read more

How to move through uncertainty

Current e-Journal – March 4, 2025 How to move through uncertainty In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements   Catalytic Thinking Exercise: How to move through uncertainty Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements To stay current on the current crisis that is happening in the U.S., follow Creating the Future’s page at … Read more

Are you partnering… or are you dominating?

Current e-Journal – February 18, 2025 Are you partnering… or are you dominating?  “Why, when we humans have such a great capacity for caring, consciousness, and creativity, has our world seen so much cruelty, insensitivity, and destructiveness?” That question has driven the work of this week’s podcast guest, futurist and feminist thought leader, Riane Eisler. … Read more

A Valentine’s Day Manifesto from Hildy

Current e-Journal – February 12, 2025 A Valentine’s Day Manifesto from Hildy Dear friends, I am writing today with a very different Valentine than I had planned. Instead, I’m writing to encourage changemakers everywhere to unite and show our strength. First, I want to apologize to our community outside the U.S. I know this note … Read more

How to activate our collective POWER

Current e-Journal – February 4, 2025 Porshi Photographer, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons How to activate our collective POWER Meghan Cummings When life gets hard, we so often look for a savior who will make it all okay. We crave a strong leader – a Martin Luther King, a Malcolm X or Mahatma Gandhi … Read more

Medicine for stressed-out changemakers

Current e-Journal – January 28, 2025 Dikyedarling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Medicine for stressed-out changemakers In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Medicine for Stressed-out Changemakers Resources to Further Your Practice Catalytic Thinking Exercise: Medicine for Stressed-out Changemakers This week’s eJournal celebrates the birthday of Creating the Future’s co-founder, Dimitri Petropolis. … Read more

What “Do not obey in advance” means for YOU

Current e-Journal – January 21, 2025 What “Do not obey in advance” means for YOU In this week’s Systems Change Newsletter… Invitations and Announcements   Catalytic Thinking Exercise: What “Do not obey in advance” means for YOU Resources to Further Your Practice Invitations & Announcements Do Not Comply with Oppressive Systems Our latest podcast guest, Yodit … Read more

What actually creates social change?

Current e-Journal – January 14, 2025 What actually creates social change? Our first podcast interview of this new year is filled with ideas and inspiration from one of the most dedicated and inspiring leaders we know. Yodit Mesfin Johnson is the CEO of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW), a movement support organization in southeast Michigan. … Read more