Collective Visioning

chapter threePersonal Visions

Shared visions emerge from personal visions. This is how they derive their energy and how they foster commitment.

PETER SENGE

If people have never learned to vision for themselves, it’s hard to create a collective vision that leads to change. In some cases, you will sense that the group you are working with is not ready for collective visioning because individuals feel so hopeless in their own lives. I have found this to be true often among urban teenagers and young adults, especially low-income youth and youth of color, who face extreme challenges around lack of education and job opportunities. Such youth are condemned ...