Connecting people and communities

What are the actions we should take, as caring and responsible individuals, to act effectively toward our 100-year vision of the future?

How do we engage people in conversations about social healing and social creativity in ways that encourage them to act on their values?

When we can access our own creativity we trust that there are infinite resources within. When we are in touch with our inner life it is impossible to violate our sense of Dharma. How can we turn on the lights of creative vision- in individuals and in our collective imagination?

What is the relationship between inquiry and action that is most generative and productive? I see a pattern where quality conversations create great project ideas which are then lost due to lack of sustained focus/time/energy. While acknowledging that many of these ideas are food for future/better ideas, I wonder how evolutionary social change can be facilitated by dialogue-to-action. What forms exist or could be developed for social incubators that could help facilitate the growth of these ideas?

How can we tap into and channel the forces of competition and excess in our country to create a similar level of focus, attention, and connection to working on the great issues of our day: for example, how do we generate an equal or greater amount of energy going into working on childhood poverty in our country as we do on college football games each Saturday during the "season"?

How to develop collective intelligence in order to be responsible for our actions?

How to learn to harvest the collective wisdom that I hope lies within us?

How do we help ourselves and others sustain hope, confidence, compassion, and truly creative efforts in light of the environmental and social challenges we currently face — and that will become all the more perilous in coming decades?

How can we become the most effective living instruments [not just advocates or intellectual spokespersons] for infusing divine love and healing into human society?

What would we do, if we truly knew where we were and what we were doing?