by Amy Lenzo | Feb 8, 2026 | 30th Anniversary Stories, Asia
From our amazing friends in Japan: The Generative Conversation BA Community (GCBC) is a Japan-based community dedicated to creating spaces for meaningful dialogue through the World Café. We bring people together to speak openly, listen deeply, and generate collective...
by Amy Lenzo | Sep 1, 2025 | 30th Anniversary Stories, Israel, Palestine, Stories
One of the classic World Cafe stories is about the largest World Cafe ever hosted. Danny Gal and a team of people who had been working on easing Israeli-Palestinian tensions for many years hosted a transformational conversation during the Arab Spring. To help us...
by Amy Lenzo | Aug 3, 2025 | 30th Anniversary Stories, Africa
This story comes from the acclaimed author Alan Briskin, as a contribution to the World Cafe’s 30th Anniversary: Shortly after my book The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace was released in paperback (1998), I received a phone call I initially thought might be a...
by Amy Lenzo | Apr 5, 2021 | Community
Musings from Frances Baldwin, March 2021Key notion: “inquiry is action.” Sometimes the need to move to some type of decision, implication or application eclipses the possibility for depth, breadth, and fresh meaning. Given time and space, more informed and useful...
by Amy Lenzo | Feb 9, 2020 | Beyond Words
One of the co-hosts from last month’s World Cafe Live! event, Learning Together: Deeper Ways of Knowing, had this reflection to share with us about his experience: Yesterday, because of multiple personal and political events, I was led to a place of decision. On...
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