It is our aspiration to create a community and a common ground where people of great creativity and commitment can work and be together.

True learning will occur when we meet others. At CREO, we create community in two primary ways: (1) through our workshops, and (2) via our CREO Community trips.

Our workshops provide all of us with the opportunity to search more deeply, to understand our own creative process and who we are as human beings, understand how we came about and how we are evolving. This in turn allows us to better see the possibilities, see ourselves, see others. Our goal is to help each other to re-awaken and truly tap into our creative being, to reconnect with ourselves and each other.

The CREO Community trips extend and build our community. They allow us the opportunity to harness our individual and collective creativity and come together to make a difference in the lives of others. We realize that we have the strength to start anew; we want to do things differently. Great power is available that can face what is going on in the world. And we find this power in community.

All of us can reach entirely new levels of possibility together, possibilities that are not available from soap box rhetoric. To achieve this, we need to begin these conversations about purpose and shared significance and commit to staying in them. As we stay in the conversation, people start to work together rather than convince each other of who has more of the truth. We are capable of creating wonderful and vibrant communities when we discover what dreams of possibility we share. And always, those dreams become much greater than anything that was ever available when we were isolated from each other. The history of most community-organizing and great social change movements can be traced back to such conversations, conversations among friends and strangers who discovered a shared sense of what was important to them.

As we create communities from the cohering center of shared significance, from a mutual belief in why we belong together, we will discover what is already visible everywhere around us in living systems. People's great creativity and diversity, our desire for contribution and relationships, blossom when the heart of our community is clear and beckoning, and when we refrain from cluttering our paths with proscriptions and demands.
(from: http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/paradox.html)