Tomorrow Makers

Photos from a 2+1 Day Strategic Design Session with Belectric USA.

75 community members from the arts exploring the future of Gualala Arts Center. Fun and rewarding. 75 volunteers invested two days to learn, share, and create a powerful future.

How do you engage 65 leaders of significant organizations to let go of their own identities in order discover a larger context so that all the individual projects sum up to a higher order? ... only by truly bringing There to Here.

photos from This Moment in Time, a collaboration with The Value Web, London March 18-19, 2009.

While our events vary greatly in character and outcome, organizing patterns of iteration, recursion and variety run through each of them. The result is an emerging Group Genius from beginning to end.

"You can't get THERE from HERE but, you can get HERE from THERE." - Taylor Design Axiom

Here are a few photos from the backcasting exercise we designed and facilitated for the ISSS. With the help of some signage and low-tech special effects, we took them out to 2056 and let them look back, identifying the eras, tipping points and heroic stories that helped enable systems sciences and systems thinking to become embedded in the ways in which society thinks, designs and decides. More photos coming soon!