Our Vision
Collaborative Relationships
Our unique approach is characterized by the collaborative relationships that exist between our young people and our adults and by our combination of action, training, and meditative practices. Participants are developing skills in meeting process, project planning, centering -- both in group and individually, public speaking, systematic analysis of issues, fundraising, direct action campaigns and other events, and listening to ourselves and to others.
Our Current Work
We are committed to spreading the COF experience as widely as possible.
In our workshops we:
- Create a healing and transformative experience for all participants.
- Tap our collective wisdom through interactive dialogue between workshop leaders and participants, in both plenary and small group sessions.
- Enhance our understanding of how to conduct campaigns and actions consistent with our core beliefs.
- Develop clear and coherent next steps, new tools, techniques and plans of action, for both individuals and small and large groups.
- Hang out, relax, chant, meditate, sing and dance.
- Create a sacred space, which nourishes & supports us.
Our Training
Whole Being Training
Primarily be implemented as part of establishing Creating Our Future as a global social change organization.
Healing one’s wounds and learning how to help others heal their wounds:
This is the place to start from to be effective at whatever one wishes to accomplish in the world, and with one’s life. To be successful, one must be able to give oneself permission to succeed, which requires changing the stories in one’s subconscious that tell us we “don’t deserve,” “are not good enough,” “need to prove ourselves,” and the like. It is very useful when working with others to not need to be better than anyone, and to be able to accept advice and criticism about one’s work without it disrupting our sense of self-worth