Day One: Evening

Monday evening we had a dinner with some special guests from Asia to honor the publication of the new Japanese and Taiwanese translations of the World Café book. There were five members of the Japanese translation team, including Daisuke Kawaguchi, who had been my...

Systems Thinking in Action 2007: Prelude

The World Café has been closely associated with Pegasus and the annual Systems Thinking conferences for a number of years. We were an active partner in this year’s event, and deeply woven in to the program – David and Juanita both held pre-conference World...

Eden is a Conversation

Barry Lopez talks of Eden as a Conversation. What a wonderful metaphor. Note to self 1: Have co-evolutionary conversations with sunlight, birds and flowers more often. Note to self 2: Remember that giving and receiving care and attention is co-evolutionary conversing....