Online World Cafe – A Participant’s View

The other day I came across this post by World Café participant Joan Davis … In it, she describes her experience of an online World Café in detail, revealing her thought processes as well as her emotions and sense of impact. In reading it, I’m struck by...

Friendship, Communion, and A Shared Vision

I can always count on de Chardin for a meaty, meaningful quote. This one feels particularly apt for us as we move to harvest the wisdom from October’s Impact Cafés and look forward to what we want to seed together for the next 20 years … “There is almost a...

A Word from our Friends at SoL

Our friends at the Society for Organizational Learning have this to say about World Café: The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) has used the World Café at many of our events and community gatherings, such as our Executive Champions’ Workshop (every...

Harvesting with the Art of Hosting

This beautiful video on the nuances of Harvesting is full of insights from Toke Moeller, Jerry Nagel, Monica Nissen, Jake Voit, and other friends in the larger Art of Hosting network. As we consider the harvest we want to generate through our 20th Anniversary Impact...

The World Café Revolution

Our dear friend Margaret Wheatley sent the following message in honor of the World Café’s 20th Anniversary. Meg was instrumental in the birth of the World Café; we are blessed by her friendship and touched to have received this thoughtful note of wisdom &...