Imagine How

Sometimes people fail to do good because they don't care. But I suspect that even more often, people don't do the good they can because the don't know how to do it. Whether or not someone pursues a socially just end involves motive, but also means.

Desire, it turns out, is not sufficient for making a better world. We also need the tools. 

Design thinking produces "hows." It doesn't start with the how. It starts by bringing people together and having them discuss a whole host of whats. But eventually the process of collaboratively considering lives, problems, ideas, and possibilities produces a sense of how the next step should be taken.

That's our goal: help people uncover how they can accomplish the good. 

Which isn't to say that we tell them what to do. We don't. Neither do we believe that people are smarter when we are around. We don't. Rather, we believe that all people are inventive, problem solving, collaborative creatures, and that certain conditions foster inventiveness, problem solving, and collaboration. 

And that's how we accomplish our goal: create the conditions that foster the robust imagination of how the good can come to pass.

-written by Dr. Tim Huffman