Moving Forward Together

We received this beautiful note from Dr. Edna Pasher – one of the pioneers of the global World Cafe community. She writes: This is a great timing to step in and create a great future for all of us. It is at the end of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish...

Ba & World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals

In a recent Stewardship Council meeting welcoming new members Daisuke Yamaguchi (whose company translated the first World Cafe book into Japanese – see the essay he wrote for the World Cafe’s 20th Anniversary) and Sabine Soeder (whose grace and graphic...

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...

Personal Impact

  This blog post from Seth Godin says something profound to me about impact. It’s just the sort of inspiration I want to share with anyone thinking of hosting a Local Impact Cafe to help celebrate the World Café’s 20th Anniversary because it shows...

What’s in a Name, or Label

A "Wiser Together" contribution from guest blogger Tom Beech: A little while ago, I received an email that caught me up short.  It was from a young, 20’s-something, friend of mine.  He and I are working on a project together and he sent me a copy...

Conversational-Centered Leadership

This from our good friends at the Daily Good, a wonderful daily pep-talk post sent out by what was Charity Focus, and is now ServiceSpace: Talking It Out: The New Conversation-centered Leadershipby Alan S. Berson and Richard G. StieglitzEvery year, hundreds of...