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What an amazing time in our country's history! What had seemed impossible has happened: Barack Obama is President-elect of the United States. Whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent it is pretty incredible. One of my best friends voted for McCain but admitted that Obama would be the best choice for a change in direction for the USA. But as Mr. Obama said in his victory speech, this is only the beginning. Now the hard work begins.

If we think of the election as Step One in a long hard process, what is Step Two, Three and Four? And how can we collectively help? How do we as citizens help maintain and extend this wave of positivity, passion, and compassion? How can we take responsibility for our futures, our children's futures, our planet's future?

We at Phinney Bischoff Design House are organizing what we call an "Ideation Lab." We are gathering a diverse group of smart, influential, passionate people to come together and brainstorm possible scenarios for "Step Two." We have included business, government, spiritual, marketing and media people. This is not a call for donations, volunteer time, or other commitments. This is a call for ideas. We will facilitate this session much like we do for our clients. We will enter with no preconceived solutions and see where we take this as a group. It could be something global, or national, or local, or personal. We will hopefully find out together.

We will publish the results on steptwo.org as they are developed.

Feel free to contact us, or offer an opinion.{encode="karl@steptwo.org" title="karl@steptwo.org"}