rick smyre

Futurist, President, Center for Communities of the Future, author, pioneer in community transformation; passion for developing networks to seed change.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

The ongoing coronavirus challenge has had an unexpected positive impact on our Communities of the Future initiative. Many colleagues are getting in touch to learn how to apply various COTF ideas and methods to include how to build "capacities for transformation."

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

We (COTF) are collecting weak signals. Send us any weak signal you identify.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

Newest Communities of the Future (COTF) initiative is called "national transformation ecosystem." We are networking interested colleagues as collaborators to help develop "capacities for transformation" throughout the U.S. and Canada. Get in touch if interested.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

Hope to have COTF collaborate with the NC School of Textiles on an idea that would utilize textile materials such as t-shirts, blouses, sweaters and carpets to create a "futures context" in local communities through the use of quotes, slogans, symbols, and games.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

Group of Davidson College graduates of 1964 developing a new concept called "national transformational ecosystem" to connect people interested in building "capacities for transformation' in local communities.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

Our Center for Communities of the Future is collaborating with colleagues from fourteen states and Canada to co-create what we are calling an "international transformational ecosystem." Let us know if you would like to be a part of it or would like more information.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

With all the pain and challenges of the coronavirus, it has a positive upside as more and more colleagues and friends are realizing that the only way for true transformation to occur in fundamental ways is for as many of us as possible to increase our "futures" collaboration.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

@FionaCHoward Would love to have you, your daughter and Wendy involved with COTF in whatever way would be appropriate. As I have said to your previously, COTF would not have had the success it has had without your great support on the website.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

@FionaCHoward Hi Fiona...will always appreciate your help and support to make the COTF website so important to our efforts over a decade. How are you? Would love an update. A book,"Preparing for a World That Doesn't Exist - Yet', was published about our ideas and methods in 2016.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

Looking for five new colleagues interested in a research and development project to identify, connect and consider the potential impact of what we call "weak signals" before they become trends.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

COTF is utilizing a new methodology for building "capacities for transformation" in local communities and throughout the country called "building triangles of transformation. Please connect if interested in being a part of an innovation to prepare for a different kind of future.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

COTF has developed a new way to seed transformatioinal ideas and methods throughout the U.S. and other countries Let us know if you would l like to know more or be part of our global ecosystem.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

Am delighted that the idea of a "national transformation ecosystem" is resonating with so many colleagues and new friends. Let me know if you would like to be one of the "nodes" for a "transformation cell" in the ecosystem.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

The Center for Communities of the Future is developing a "national transformational ecosystem" that will connect three "nodes" for each "cell of transformation." We have sixteen colleagues committed and would like to have fourteen more involved. Please connect if interested.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

COTF is pioneering a new way to build "capacities for transformation" in local communities throughout the U.S. called "meta-ecosystem for transformation." Come join us in this new research and development venture in support of "community transformation."

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

We (COTF) are building an international network of people who want to learn the concepts, methods and skills of a new type of leadership..."master capacity builder."

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

Twenty five colleagues came to our house in NC to collaborate on the idea of a "national transformational ecosystem." We are developing "nodes" and "cells" to seed and evolve transformational thinking and action around key emergent ideas important to a different kind of future.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

COTF developing "ecosystems for transformation" to connect people and organizations interested in being involved in a new approach for collaboration to prepare for a different kind of future. Please respond if you would like to know more.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

@JoodyC Hi Judy....I also have tried to get in touch with Marv for several years and always get a bounce back as well to include a note that his email is no longer open. Marv was one of the key people in the early stages of our Communities of the Future work in the early '90s to 2005.

[rick smyre @COTFtransform]

New COTF idea, "meta-ecosystem for transformation" to speed up the pace of change in the society and especially at the local level is gaining significant traction.