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 Creating the Future?
For the past several weeks, Creating the Future's community has been helping to determine what's next for the organization's work. Starting with the first few questions in Catalytic Thinking, our community members are thoughtfully sharing their insights into these questions:
1: What draws you to Creating the Future's work? What has our work made possible for you? What benefit have you received from our work?
2: The next steps in Creating the Future's mission will be about sharing what we've learned as we've experimented with Catalytic Thinking. What groups and/or individuals might be affected by what we share? Who might be impacted by our sharing what we’ve learned about Catalytic Thinking?
3: What could Creating the Future's work make possible for those individuals or groups?
Guided by Catalytic Thinking, the questions themselves create inclusion and possibility. And the thoughts people are sharing are great examples of that!
At this month's Integrity Team meeting, we will review common themes we are finding in those responses, in preparation for the next steps - real-time, facilitated conversations about the conditions that must be in place for those outcomes to be realized.
Our community members have been thinking about this in the online forum we created for this discussion. Here is a list of themes folks came up with there - the starting point for our conversation during the meeting on the 14th.
We hope you will be part of this conversation, because this is not theoretical - this is actually determining the next steps in Creating the Future's evolution!
How to Prepare
First, let us know if you plan to attend by sending a note at this link.
Second, if you are not familiar with Catalytic Thinking or the Integrity functions of our board, the following will be helpful:
For those who think visually, this PDF graphic of the Catalytic Thinking Framework will give you an understanding of the flow of the conversation. For those who work best with text, you can follow along with the questions that guide Catalytic Thinking at this link. We recommend having these pieces available during the meeting, to spark your thinking during the discussion.
To get a sense of the context of our Integrity Board, this post introduces our thinking about that.
3 Ways to participate
If you have never been part of Creating the Future's work, all our strategy and board meetings are open and participatory, for anyone who wants to be part of the discussion. You can see more about that at this link.
Where we meet:
The board meeting will take place right here at this post. If the video does not appear precisely on time, please be patient – we are probably just running a few minutes late.
There are 3 ways you can participate in our meetings.
- If you are already familiar with and committed to Creating the Future’s work, and you would like to be actively involved in the meeting discussion side-by-side at our online “meeting table,” let us know, and we will send you an invitation to join us online. Read more here about what it means to participate in that way. (Please note that these seats are limited, to ensure everyone's voice can be heard. If you are not able to be in the room with us, no worries - there are still two other ways to share your insights with us!)
- If you want to participate but are unable to be in the meeting itself (perhaps you’re at work, or maybe at home with kids running around, etc.), watch the live-stream in real time and tweet your questions and ideas to us via the hashtag #CreatingTheFuture. We read those tweets aloud during the meeting, just as if you were there. This is a great first step for those who are not as familiar with our work, but want to get more involved.
(Please note: We will only see your tweets if you use the #CreatingTheFuture hashtag. In addition, during the meeting, we will not look at blog comments here at this post. While we will check those comments later, during the meeting we will only be following the #CreatingTheFuture hashtag in the Twitter stream.)
- Lastly, if you want to simply watch, or you want to think about what you’re hearing and respond later – or if you will be watching the recording after the meeting happens – please add your thoughts into the comments here at this post. We will include that thinking into the mix of things.
We look forward to your being part of the discussion!
* All Creating the Future's board meetings are open for anyone to participate, or to watch afterwards. To learn more about the thinking behind this openness - and our experiences with being open - click here.
Logistics: The meeting will happen right here at this post. Details are below.
Watch the meeting HERE on Monday
Note: if the meeting does not start on time please be patient as we may be running a few minutes late.
or, After the meeting - LISTEN TO THE MEETING HERE
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