19 February 2008
Stanford Solutions Network: A Proposal for a Continuously Improving, Real World, Immersive Problem Solving Framework

"For the first time in history, our tools are becoming as powerful as our problems. Unfortunately, a frustrating gap remains between our urgent problems and their potential solutions. The solutions are not just technical; they live across disciplinary boundaries, fragmented efforts, ideologies, and entrenched interest groups."

"Stanford can play a leadership role in marshalling our considerable resources to imagine, model, prototype, test, and help implement bipartisan solutions that work. The proposed Stanford Solutions Network would provide a continuously improving and immersive problem solving environment."

I will be attending Neil's presentation with much anticipation. As I interpret his ideas, I see fundamentally sound systems thinking: analysis, synthesis, unity, diversity and an appreciation of the entanglement. I wonder though, to what extent he's connected the virtual to the physical, and how he envisions keeping this from being just another academic think/do tank. (more info)

8 February 2008
A Creative Forum for organizational change leaders

9:00 - 5:00 pm • Downtown San Francisco

This one day interactive collaborative exploration of what it means to lead sustainability efforts is a co-creation of Syntony Quest, an organization doing phenomenal work in the areas of evolutionary learning communities, leadership, and social change. (link to complete event info)

This is the "next" in a ongoing stream of partnerships / collaborations between Syntony Quest and Tomorrow Makers that began at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). Todd will be participating in the event as a "special guest" as well as taking part in follow-up sessions to design subsequent Championing Sustainability workshops.

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15 January 2008
Group meets to explore how collaboration may accelerate phase transition to sustainable regional economy

With the Livability Project, Tomorrow Makers' will be facilitating a 3-hour DesignSession with 15 Sonoma county residents - each championing organizations, projects or ideas around "sustainability" - to begin a conversation  around new ways of working and collaborating that can help these individual entities while simultaneously quickening the transformation of the county as a whole. The event will take place in Tomorrow Makers' Collaboratory in the Business Cluster at Sonoma Mountain Village.

12 January 2008
A Gathering of the Eastern Pacific Rim ISSS Tribe

10 AM - 3 PM • The Tomorrow Makers Collaboratory, Sonoma Mountain Village

Both Gail and Todd are among the founding members who will be present as the newly formed tribe sets forth on conversations around necessary impossibilities, exploring ways in which systems sciences can open up new frontiers of thought and frame new questions that will incubate and accelerate thoughtful evolution.

For more info, contact Todd.