On Tuesday, December 18rd at 3:30pm ET, our Faculty Development team will continue its work, as our first cohort of teachers does the work to develop a FlashClass from scratch. FlashClasses are 20-30 minute recorded webinars, with post-class handouts and Q&A via our Facebook page. Their purpose is an in-depth introduction to a narrowly defined concept. For … Read more
On Thursday, December 5th at 3pm ET, we’ll be debriefing our participation in this year's BoardSource conference. The video of that session will appear at the bottom of this post at the time of the meeting. To participate, tweet to #CTFuture. This year for the first time in many many years, BoardSource opened their conference … Read more
Our August board meeting will be Monday, August 12 at 1pm ET(NA) right here. To join in the conversation, watch for the video stream to appear at the end of this post. (There will be no video there until the meeting begins. If it's 1pm or a few minutes after, and there is no video, … Read more
Today's meeting of the Faculty Development team is happening right here! The video will appear below when the meeting starts (Friday, June 28th at 1pm Pacific time (NA)). Tweet to participate at the hashtag #CTFuture. See you there!
July 1 will mark 6 months of Creating the Future’s experiment with openly inviting participation in all our work – from board meetings to resource development and branding meetings, to conversations with funders and everything in between. Which means it is time to step back and assess: What are we all learning from this effort? … Read more
For the very first time in their history, BoardSource is opening their 2013 conference to speakers outside their own realm. Which means that pretty much everyone remotely related to boards and governance is spending this week writing a proposal to present at the BoardSource conference – including us! Several of Creating the Future’s governance geeks … Read more
This Monday’s board meeting will be our first toe-in-the-water of streaming our board meetings live AND inviting your participation via Twitter. (Yes, we’ve been streaming other meetings for the past two weeks, beta testing the life out of this way of working. But this is a first for our board meetings – a whole … 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
If we want to see communities where people are fully engaged, participating in their own lives and their own futures, what would it look like if that was modeled everywhere – starting with our own organization? This is a question that has been in the making at Creating the Future since the initial decision, before … Read more
As a start-up, we are doing so much all at once, that we just realized we never published our “WOW” list for last year! We hope this list inspires you to want to learn more about ALL our programs, and more importantly – to get involved! 2011 Program Successes 2011 was the first year that … Read more