Creating
‘Creating’ allows you to explore the future by doing.

‘Creating’ moves an idea or innovation into something concrete, including next steps. After the group completes the sensing and presencing stage, the next step allows the them to crystallize ideas and action them.
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In Teilhard’s view,
God’s creative power does not fashion us as though out of soft clay;
it is a fire that kindles life in whatever it touches, a quickening spirit.
He wrote:
“We must decisively adapt ourselves to it,
model ourselves upon it . . . to increase our creative energy one must deepen thought,
dilate the heart, intensify external activity.
For created beings must work if they would be yet further created.”
(Hymn of the Universe, 118]
Creating
‘Creating’ translates an idea or concept into a concrete product or first step. This step is not meant to be the final product but it allows you to practise something new or create something new and to generate valuable feedback from others. This feedback is then the basis for refining the ‘new’.
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Some ‘new creations’ may be concrete products, such as poetry, music or art and others might be meetings, structures, processes, services or experiments. The ‘new creation’ could become a project or something that can be shared or even be scaled across Good Shepherd.
Whatever the ‘new creation’ will look like, there is an underlying process that participants go through.
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Guided Journalling Practice
Begin the creating process with a journalling activity. This self reflective process allows participants to access deeper levels of self knowledge, and to connect this knowledge to concrete actions.
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The attached document provides details to run a guided journalling session and includes questions to assist participants move from knowledge to actions.
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presencing.org
Prototyping Canvas
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This is one of the simplest and fastest ways to draw together your ideas from the sensing and presencing to develop a prototype. Prototyping is best completed as a team.
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Simply printout the canvas and complete each section in any order to see what develops. Try to be free and adventurous with your ideas before settling on the best one.
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Remember, we want to use the intelligence of the head, heart and hands to co-shape the system in a positive way.
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Click to open and print the prototyping canvas.
