Friday (tomorrow), February 22 at 4pm Eastern time we will be live streaming the continuation of our Branding / Messaging work. (For context, a summary of the first two meetings and the thinking that arose from them is at this link.) You will be able to watch that live-streamed discussion right here. (The video will … Read more
What is Creating the Future? And what language will answer that question with both the essence of who we are AND the power of that essence? Last month, two very wise souls – Dave Svet and Zach Braiker – spent a combined 3 hours asking insightful and probing questions, setting us on the path to … Read more
Last month, in 3 online discussions (complete videos of Meeting #1, Meeting #2 and Meeting #3) and several informal conversations, we developed the resource development plan for stabilizing and enhancing Creating the Future’s current efforts. This short video shares highlights from that plan, within the context of the mission we intend to accomplish. Looking forward … Read more
Earlier this month, we joined together with colleagues who care about the potential of volunteerism to create the world we want – moving beyond the concept of “volunteering” to a more impactful concept of “participation.” In addition to Hildy and Dimitri from Creating the Future, the folks in the video include Lisa Humenik (20+ year … Read more
Today at 1pm Mountain time US (3pm ET) we will be live streaming the continuation of our Resource Development planning (for the first two meetings for context, here is Session #1 and here is Session #2). Creating the Future takes an asset-based approach to resource development (described here). Today we will wrap up (hopefully) … Read more
“Enjoy serendipity, discovery, emergent social learning, into a never ending journey towards understanding complexity. Make the emergent learning and spiralling of discoveries a social purpose, a learning to learn process, a metacognition…” * Being part of Creating the Future is always an adventure. As a living laboratory, our work is about pushing boundaries and exploring … Read more
Today at 1pm Mountain time US (3pm ET) we will be live streaming the continuation of our Resource Development planning (for the first meeting, link here for context). Creating the Future takes an asset-based approach to resource development (described here). Today we will focus on our framework for Community Impact Planning as an asset … Read more
Earlier this week, we attempted to begin Creating the Future’s plan for resource development – doing so live online, as we’ve begun doing with all our planning. Unfortunately, our planning session quickly became a learning opportunity about the technology of the broadcast, as we learned from someone who had been trying to participate that the … Read more
Today at 10am Mountain time US (12 noon ET) we will be live streaming our first meeting with Zach Braiker of Refine and Focus, to begin figuring out how to talk about Creating the Future. You will be able to watch that live-streamed discussion right here! (The video will appear as if by magic when … Read more
Today at 2:30 Mountain time US (4:30 ET) we will be live streaming our first meeting with Dave Svet of Spur Communications, to begin figuring out how to talk about Creating the Future. You will be able to watch that live-streamed discussion right here! (The video will appear as if by magic when the meeting … Read more