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Whether you work at a food bank, a crisis nursery, a literacy organization, an anti-racism group – or a foundation or capacity building organization that supports those efforts - consider the following questions for the work you do. These might be a topic for a staff retreat or perhaps simply as part of your regular staff meeting or planning conversations.

What assumptions and beliefs might be challenged by having a fixed time frame?

If you had a fixed time frame for accomplishing your mission, what approaches might your group take towards ensuring that mission was accomplished? Would the mission change? In what ways?

What would be different about the way your work is done? What creativity might you invoke? What parts of your work might you share with others doing similar work? With whom might you partner, who you might otherwise ignore or discount?

These are the kinds of big questions that will determine what your organization accomplishes, and importantly, how quickly.

This is not just about groups that are working to heal and help those who are hurting. The questions apply to arts and education missions as well. What would be different about your theater group, your educational enrichment group, if you knew you had a fixed timeframe in which to accomplish something bold and dynamic for your community?

Once you have determined what you want to accomplish – and by when – then the questions of Catalytic Thinking will guide you to making those dreams achievable. Because unless something is physically impossible, it is absolutely possible.