Happy Birthday Anne!

Today is Anne Dosher’s 95th birthday. Anne is the ground beneath my feet as I do the work I do with the World Cafe community. I often think of her. When I am stuck, I ask myself, “What would Anne do?”, and hear her lovely voice in my heart inviting me to...

Anne at the Dresden Frauenkirche

In 2007, World Cafe senior practitioners Ulric Rudebeck and Sabine Spenser co-hosted a very special World Cafe in the crypt of the re-built Dresden Frauenkirche, which had been bombed in the last World War. Part of three days of city-wide World Cafes organized by...

Co-Creating our Future

This is the second in a series of blog posts to honour Anne Dosher, Guardian of the Soul of The World Cafe. Anne has been a wonderful guide and steward since the World Cafe was born in 1995. To celebrate Anne’s 95th birthday, we collected stories and greetings...

World as Cafe

  Early Dawn Awaken to the world-as-café. Humanity breathing, sounding Networks of conversations Vibrating in resonant waves, Connecting human consciousness, Greeting a new day. Here, sit at your table. We welcome you.   Anne Dosher This is the first in a...

Talking it Through

We often refer to our beloved Anne Dosher as the “Guardian of the Soul of the World Café”. Anne, who is now in her 90s, doesn’t travel as much as she once did and we don’t get to see her as often as we’d like these days. But her spirit is...