Touch the Future
Expanding Human Potential by Supporting Those Who Care For Children
"All of childhood expands when we uplift, inspire and support parents and caregivers.
Focus on the child while ignoring the adult, and childhood will remain just what it is."
~ Michael Mendizza, Founder of Touch the Future
Vision of Touch the Future (from their website)
For more than thirty years Touch the Future has been interviewing visionary educators, authors, scientists, researchers and performance specialists. Uniting each is a deep appreciation of the limitless capacity for children to love and to learn. This collection of visionaries is the heart of Touch the Future On-Line, our interactive, searchable Internet site, designed to share these collected insights with the world. continued reading...
Mission & Objective of Touch the Future (from their website)
Athletes call it the Zone, researchers call it Flow, children call it Play. Our mission is to help adults, parents, educators, childcare providers and amateur athletic coaches rediscover this Optimum Learning Relationship and apply it to parenting and to education. Our objective is to optimize learning, performance and well-being by cultivating an awareness of the way "states of relationship" impact human development, at any age, in any field. We accomplish this by designing and developing appropriate learning opportunities which target the needs of different populations. Our goal is to bring about a deep change in the way adults view and relate to the developmental needs of children. Change adult perceptions and behaviors and all of childhood changes with it. Focus only on the child and we remain right where we are.