5 Spheres of Sharing Collective Discoveries

One of the seven design principles of World Café practice – “Share Collective Discoveries” – really has my attention lately… I imagine this principle, sometimes referred to in practice as “harvesting”, as having several levels, or spheres. These...

Sense-Making and Harvesting World Cafe

Canadian mate Chris Corrigan has been doing some absolutely brilliant thinking about harvesting, and publishing much of it on his blog, “Parking Lot”. His latest “Sense-making in a World Cafe” outlines a proposal for a World Cafe designed to...

Day 2: Afternoon

Coming into the afternoon session of day two, the weaving between Tom Hurley and Sharon Eakes started to thread together the themes of emerging patterns. Tom talked about the challenge of holding the moment of stillness – presencing – in a reality that is...

Day 2:AM

Tom Hurley brought us into the second day with a moment of silence, imagining ourselves standing in front of the blank canvas of the day. “Listen to the room breathing”, he muses, a line in a poem by Lorca “there are spaces that ache in the uninhabited air”,...