Destination ImagiNation, Inc. seeks to be the world’s foremost
non-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting three
critical life skills among learners at all levels: Creativity,
Teamwork, and Problem-Solving. These three life skills form the core
of our organization’s value system.
We
strive to encourage, teach, and celebrate Creativity in our Global
Community. We will develop programs that provide a positive and fun
environment for participants to explore their own unlimited Creativity
and to take Creative risks, and we will recognize outstanding
Creativity in our programs and in our world. We will provide parents,
educators, and others with tools for encouraging and developing
Creativity in their children and in themselves. We will work to
promote the value of Creativity in all facets of the community. We
will utilize our own Creativity within our organization.
We believe that Teamwork is necessary for success
in our world, and that people working as a Team can achieve
extraordinary things. We will design programs that encourage students
and adults to work productively as Teams, and we will recognize Team
accomplishments. We will develop tools to assist parents, educators,
and others in promoting the Teamwork value among our children. Our
members and volunteers are our Team, and we welcome their
participation in developing our organization. Both in our organization
and in our programs, our Teams will embrace cooperation and mutual
respect in all their activities.
We believe that our world requires successful
Problem-Solving strategies, thus we will develop Problem-Solving
skills among children and adults who participate in our programs. We
will celebrate the Problem-Solving process and the accomplishments of
our members and participants, and we will recognize those who
demonstrate outstanding achievement in Problem-Solving. We will view
our organizational challenges as opportunities to utilize our own
Problem-Solving skills and strategies, and we will continually strive
to improve those skills and strategies within our organization.
Destination ImagiNation Board of Trustees,
September 2001 |