by Amy Lenzo | Nov 10, 2008 | Community, Stories, Wiser Together
New World Café host Victoria Throop did an incredible job reporting on the first of two community-wide World Cafés organized by the Youth Awareness Coalition (YAC) in the beautiful and remote town of Valdez, Alaska. Here’s how Victoria describes Valdez:...
by Amy Lenzo | Oct 25, 2008 | Africa, Community, Gift Economy, Relationship, World as Cafe
We received this email recently from Jennifer Goudemand in South Africa. It was so beautiful I had to share it with you all here: "Thank you for this work – I stumbled upon this methodology very recently, and am awed by the power, relevance and willingness to...
by Amy Lenzo | Oct 1, 2008 | Community, Gift Economy, Relationship
In the September issue of TableTalk, I spoke about the challenges & uncertainty of the times we’re in now and how it’s in these times that we become even more appreciative of things like the power of conversation and the blessings of community. In the...
by Amy Lenzo | Sep 18, 2008 | Politics, World as Cafe
Juanita Brown has been asked to speak at an academic symposium on “Reflection and Democracy” in Chicago early next month. The following is an excerpt from the reflection paper she wrote in preparation, the first and most personal of three little stories...
by Amy Lenzo | Sep 18, 2008 | Language, Science
These words from educator and World Café researcher Elaine Johnson: I’m just beginning to work on a brain workshop I’m presenting to the Northwest Regional Conference of Mathematicians – and Juanita’s summary of Maturana’s comments...