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Dear Reader,
As of last week, both my girls have moved up to middle school. My old assumptions about what would happen and matter most—how I'd miss their little kid days or how we'd be able to communicate—hold me back from being the parent they need. Popping ? marks on those to let them go is making space for new observations and ideas that feel so daringly experimental or deliciously extravagant that I need to add a ? just to let them out.
I sense Innovators' Compass shifting, too. It was born smack between my daughters a dozen years ago. It's grown through sandbox experiments with and by many of you. We started a baby website and hashtag (credit: Kathleen McKissack, Kevin Day) now full of content.
We've honed powerful yet simple tools guiding the new "Use it!" page below. Our family album is a worldwide atlas of your Compass experiences, from CorpsAfrica's last time to the Ottawa, MI, county stories below. And we're writing a book to share it.
It feels like this labor of love is also transitioning out of its elementary years. And I'm likewise called on to grow as its parent: setting one foot outside the sandbox to help you and others share what we've built and the difference it makes.
I'm navigating this new season in our work with ? marks, too, to let old assumptions go and new possibilities come.
And we'll never stop experimenting, right?
To flowing into fall and change,
Ela Ben-Ur, Founder of innovatorscompass.org
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