The Power of Vision

Strategic Visioning is a process that engages an entire organizational community in integrating its best hindsight and foresight in aligned action... [I]n methodological terms, it blends traditional strategic planning with best practices emerging from visioning, large scale collaboration, and graphic facilitation. This blend complements the heavily analytical approaches of traditional planning with processes that engage participants in a holistic integration of their intuitive, emotional, intellectual, and physical understandings of the organization.
Going on three years ago, many Common Ground members participated in the co-op's first (?) strategic visioning session (or series of sessions) - exercises designed to elucidate from the membership their directional desires for their co-op. Out of that came this - a document pulling together all the information from all the sessions - that has served as the blueprint for effecting many of the changes Common Ground has experienced.

As Common Ground embarks on its latest journey - an expansion AND a relocation! - it's time to ask ourselves what we're going to do once we get there.

We're visioning - strategically, of course - again this March.

The date has been set, tentatively, for Saturday, March 8. Please watch this space (and/or your email) for more information.

We've come this far in less than three years - who knows where we can be three years from now?