Creating the Future
Creating the Future

Creating the Future

Hildy Gottlieb

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What does it take to create visionary social change? If we want to see a future that is more humane, more equitable, more healthy, more loving, more compassionate – what does it take to create that?

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Welcome to Creating the Future’s podcast, where those are the questions our guests will explore. Those guests come from all walks of life - historians and community organizers, social scientists and movement leaders, people working inside the system and outside the system.

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In each episode, host Hildy Gottlieb asks her guests one simple-but-not-so-simple question: What actually creates change?

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Our goal for this podcast is the goal of changemakers around the world: To help you create a world that is equitable, kind, healthy, and joyful - a world that works for all of us.

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This podcast is a program of Creating the Future, a global nonprofit where our tagline says it all: Change the Questions, Change the World. http://creatingthefuture.org

Recent Episodes

Episode #10 Creating Change by focusing on both the individual AND the world
MAR 17, 2025
Episode #10 Creating Change by focusing on both the individual AND the world
<p>Episode #10 in which Marcus Walton talks about the multiple levels of change – from the individual to the global - that are present when change happens.</p><p><strong>Bio</strong></p><p>Marcus F. Walton serves as the president &amp; CEO of Grantmakers for Effective organizations where he supports communities of philanthropic leaders to realize their highest grantmaking aspirations. Throughout his 20-year career, he has specialized in operationalizing ideas, concepts, and frameworks; cultivating transformational leadership and relationships; racial equity facilitation &amp; training; management strategy; program design; and constituent engagement.</p><p>Guided by a lifelong interest in human development, Marcus’s vocational pursuits include a decade-long career as a Newfield Network-trained ontological coach, with additional training in the Action Learning systems coaching model. He adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to cultivate conditions for individual &amp; collective thriving by integrating the behavioral sciences with nonprofit management &amp; organizing principles, racial equity practices, and ontological learning competencies. Marcus endeavors to leave a legacy characterized by personal mastery, systems change, and social sector excellence.</p><p>You can follow Marcus’s work on LinkedIn <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusfwalton/">at this link</a>, or via Grantmakers for Effective Organizations <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.geofunders.org/">at this link.</a></p>
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48 MIN
Episode #8 Creating Change by shifting our work from Domination to Partnership
FEB 14, 2025
Episode #8 Creating Change by shifting our work from Domination to Partnership
<p>Episode #8 in which Riane Eisler talks about shifting our mindsets from domination to partnership, both in the world outside and in the work of social change itself.</p><p> Riane Eisler is an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and author who writes about the effect of gender and family politics on societies. Riane’s whole-systems research offers practical tools for constructing a less violent, more egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable future.</p><p>Riane has authored many books, including <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rianeeisler.com/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/"><em>The Chalice and the Blad</em>e</a>, that considers the roles of domination vs. partnership in both societal and interpersonal structures. Her book <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rianeeisler.com/the-real-wealth-of-nations-creating-a-caring-economics/"><em>The Real Wealth of Nations</em></a> was hailed by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking."</p><p>Riane founded the Center for Partnership Systems, which provides practical applications of her work, and she is editor in chief of the online <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps"><em>Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies</em></a><em> </em>published at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at universities around the world, and has written hundreds of articles and contributions to both scholarly and popular books.</p><p>Among her many accomplishments, Riane has the addressed the UN General Assembly, and she has been awarded the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award – an award that was earlier awarded to the Dalai Lama.</p><p>We encourage you to visit her websites for more information about Riane’s work at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.rianeeisler.com">www.rianeeisler.com</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.centerforpartnership.org">www.centerforpartnership.org</a>. And we hope you will donate to help further her efforts to build a more just and humane world for all of us.</p>
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34 MIN