The Futures of 'Caring' Scan Club

The Community Innovation Network was founded as part of the on-going Future of Belonging Project between the YMCA Simcoe/Muskoka and Georgian College.The goal of the Community Innovation Network is to foster collaboration and enable creativity for community-driven innovations of the future. It includes accessible physical spaces called Community Impact Labs, intended to foster community co-designing, and in-person alongside digital collaboration tools connecting everyone. A true regional social innovation ecosystem it ensures diverse community groups have access to tools, and resources to develop citizen-led change, support for non-profit strategic planning and start-up, social enterprise,and policy shifts. To learn more visit www.futureofbelonging.ca

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Join Scan Club to help The Future of Belonging Project build a list of trends regarding the future of Caring.

A part of The Future of Belonging Project is helping to build a <a href="https://futureofbelonging.ca/strategic-plans" title="https://futureofbelonging.ca/strategic-plans" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Community Innovation Network</a> to ensure we are designing the futures we need to see in our region. To do this we need your help to take a look at what might be on the horizon. This year, we’re exploring the theme of ‘Caring’.What is a Scan Club?A Scan Club is a group of people (everyday people, students, experts and partners) that come together to explore the future. We do this by using future thinking and strategic foresight. Strategic Foresight is an intentional way to look at potential futures to help inform decision-making in the present. It involves identifying emerging trends, anticipating unexpected events, and imaginative strategies to navigate the communities we want to design.How does it work?Over a six-week period, participants of the Scan Club will use a mix of imagination, intuition, creativity and observation of events in the world-at-large to find signals* about caring in the future and the present. We’ll do this by something called ‘Horizon Scanning’. Horizon Scanning involves detecting early signs of change that may have important future impacts on our communities, economies, health, the environment, and how we work and play. Participants will then meet weekly online for an hour and half, to dive into conversations around these signals they found on the horizon, and how they might affect the Future of Belonging in our communities. We encourage participants to come to as many sessions as possible, however attending all sessions is not mandatory. The Future of Belonging Scan Club will occur over 7 weeks on the following Fridays:<ul><li>February 7th, 2025 10:30am – 12pm EST (Introduction)</li></ul><ul><li>February 14th, 2025 10:30am – 12pm EST</li></ul><ul><li>February 21st, 2025 10:30am – 12pm EST</li></ul><ul><li>February 28th, 2025 10:30am – 12pm EST</li></ul><ul><li>March 7th, 2025 10:30am – 12pm EST</li></ul><ul><li>March 14th, 2025 10:30am – 12pm EST</li><li>March 21st, 2025 10:30am - 12pm EST</li></ul>You can join all of these virtual sessions using this zoom link:<a href="https://sm-ymca-ca.zoom.us/j/86047463080" title="https://sm-ymca-ca.zoom.us/j/86047463080" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> https://sm-ymca-ca.zoom.us/j/86047463080</a>Please note: All participants are encouraged to attend the first meeting on Friday February 7th, 2025 or watch this recording before our second meeting. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IOEgVm6p0" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IOEgVm6p0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Scan Club tutorial and introduction</a>. *Signals: Small, often subtle indicators or early signs of potential future trends, shifts, or disruptions. Examples of signals can be news articles, ideas, movies, podcasts, blogs, books, new technologies, current issues, etc.For more information on The Future of Belonging project, please <a href="https://futureofbelonging.ca/" title="https://futureofbelonging.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here.</a>

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