The World Cafe

A Grounded Response to Online Engagement (REAL-TIME INTENSIVE)
2020-04-13 10:00 - 2020-04-17 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
From our Learning Partner Beehive Productions
The art of staying grounded while responding to the urgency of the current need for meaningful and effective online engagement …

As we find ourselves adapting to a new reality, finding alternative ways to socialize, do our work, and stay in contact with loved ones near and far, many of us are going beyond the initial panicked rush to find fast solutions and starting to realize the incredible potential of working online.
How we meet and host each other online is more important now than ever, whether the groups we are hosting are large or small. It can be a deeply meaningful experience or it can be very frustrating. This intensive is designed to minimize the frustration and maximize the value of our online engagements.
TWO SESSIONS A DAY FOR THREE DAYS
MONDAY APRIL 13, WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 & FRIDAY APRIL 17
10 am – 12 pm San Francisco
1 – 3 pm New York
19:00 – 21:00 Paris
&
3 – 5 pm San Francisco
7 – 9 am (the next day) Tokyo
8 – 10 am (the next day) Sydney
$425
30 % discount for Community Table Subscribers
(see Community Table Calendar for discount code)
30 % discount for groups of 3 or more
(contact us with names and emails for code)
As always, if finances are a challenge for you,
please contact us & together we will find a creative solution.
For more information & registration …

Community Cafe April
2020-04-09 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Thursday, April 9
10 am – 12.30 pm California | 1 pm – 3.30 pm Boston | 7 pm – 9.30 pm Paris
(use a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area)

“How can I host myself in this time of utter uncertainty?”
Hosting Self has always been an essential element of our hosting practice. In this time of sheltering in place, it has become even more crucial to take care of ourselves.
This is a time to turn to each other, to learn together and to share practices and resources that are meaningful for us.
This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series hosted every month with and for the World Cafe community and the wider “central garden” of participatory practitioners.
These Community Cafes offer an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
Fee by Donation: $5 – $20
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

Global Facilitators' Virtual Cafe #19
2020-04-03 20:00 - 22:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
The Global Facilitators’ Virtual Café is an online World Café for global facilitators. This time, the theme of the Café conversation will be “Coronavirus Crisis and Paradigm Shift of Facilitation”
“Global Facilitators’ Virtual Cafe#19” organized by IAF Japan and FAJ (Facilitators’ Association Japan) in cooperation with The World Cafe Community is scheduled to take place at 8 pm on April 3rd, Friday, Japan Time
Masato Tahara, IAF Japan, and Kazu Katori, IAF Japan, will co-host the Virtual Café conversation. Anyone who is interested in talking about this theme is welcome to join us.
The Virtual Café #19 will start 20:00 April 3rd Japan Time which is the following time in your area
20:00 April 3rd Korea
19:00 April 3rd China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore
18:00 April 3rd Vietnam, Thailand
16:30 April 3rd India
13:00 April 3rd Paris
12:00 April 3rd London
07:00 April 3rd New York
06:00 April 3rd Chicago
04:00 April 3rd SAN Francisco
To register for the Global Facilitators’ Virtual Cafe, please click on the registration link below. In return, we will send you the URL link to access the Zoom meeting room.
REGISTRATION
For further information, please mail to: mindechoe@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing you soon in Zoom meeting room.

Origin Stories with Meg Wheatley
2020-03-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Beehive Productions believes that knowing the lineage and history of the key people and practices in the Central Garden is core to evolving our practices … from this idea, the Origin Story calls evolved, featuring stories from key members of our field’s shared origins, and where they see the field evolving.
This call features Meg Wheatley, founder of the Berkana Institute and a seminal figure in launching both World Cafe and the Art of Hosting. Meg is the author of dozens of books on core topics of importance to our field, including Turning to One Another, Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way, and Walk Out, Walk On.
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
(Free to Community Table Subscribers)
HOSTED BY
Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen
Beehive Productions

ProAction Cafe on the Future of Democracy
2020-03-24 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
With Rainer von Leoprechting
If Democracy is today as broken as it seems to be, what needs to be hosted so it can begin to heal?
Bring your projects, initiatives and ambitions.
In these times, it’s appropriate to be bold. Democracy is only one of those big social systems that are in crisis and might need to be completely revamped and re-started again, but it’s a significant one.
What are the next elegant steps?
Let’s meet and find out! One initiative at a time. Bring your projects to the conversation. Get strength and inspiration from dialogue with others, and take fresh, elegant, actions home with you for your own next steps.
We look forward to seeing you there!
A World Cafe Live! Event
FREE to Community Table subscribers

REGISTER HERE

Your Hosts
Rainer von Leoprechting, Michaela Sieh and Amy Lenzo

March Community World Café
2020-03-12 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Thursday, March 12, 2020
10 am – 12.30 pm California | 1 pm – 3.30 pm Boston | 7 pm – 9.30 pm Paris
(use a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area)

This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series hosted every month with and for the World Café community and the wider “central garden” of participatory practitioners.
These Community Cafes offer us an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
Fee by Donation: $5 – $30
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

Hosting in Complexity
2020-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Complexity-informed Principles and Practices for Group Facilitation and Participatory Process
With Chris Corrigan
A Beehive Productions Training
Tuesdays, February 25th, March 3rd, 10th, & 17th

10am – 12pm Pacific Time
(use a time zone converter for local times in your area)
$300
30% discount for groups of 3 or more, and for Community Table Subscribers
(contact Beehive for promo codes – if you are a group, please include names and email addresses of everyone in your group)
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Complex facilitation for addressing complex issues requires a special approach to working with groups. In the language of the Art of Hosting Conversation that Matter, we call this approach “hosting” to signify that it has its primary focus on the spaces and processes that we use to host dialogue rather than a more traditional facilitation approach that manages the content, meaning-making, and dynamics.
This approach is defined by a focus on the two key outcomes: emergence of meaning and self-organization for action.
Chris Corrigan will share his insights of 15 years of trying to figure this all out sharing his current clarity that comes down to a simple set of underlying principles that have been deeply influenced by the work of Dave Snowden and Glenda Eoyang.

Neurodiversity in the Workplace: Is it the Next Frontier in Diversity?
2020-02-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
A World Cafe Live! event, sponsored by the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI) and The World Café Community Foundation.
Join us for this interactive World Café featuring Khalil Smith, VP of Consulting, NLI, interviewed by Tracey France, EEO & Diversity Manager for the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Friday, February 21st
10:00 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time / 1:00 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time / 19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
By Donation $5 – $30
Free to Community Table Subscribers

For More Information & Registration

Hosting and Facilitating: Similarities, Differences and Applications
2020-02-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
A World Cafe one-module Signature Learning Program!
Hosted by Frances Baldwin & Amy Lenzo
ONLINE
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
(check a time zone converter for local time in your area)
$69
(30% off for Community Table Subscribers)
For more Information and Link to Register
Note: This course is suitable for all levels of World Cafe & other Participatory Practice hosts

February Community Cafe
2020-02-10 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Monday, February 8
10 am – 12.30 pm California | 1 pm – 3.30 pm Boston | 7 pm – 9.30 pm Paris
(use a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area)

This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series hosted every month with and for the World Cafe community and the wider “central garden” of participatory practitioners.
These Community Cafes offer an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
Fee by Donation: $5 – $20
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

Transforming Limiting Beliefs
2020-01-28 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
A Beehive Productions course
with Caitlin Frost
Four Tuesdays: Jan 28th, Feb 4th, Feb 11, & 18th
ONLINE
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
(use a time zone converter for local time in your area)
30% off for groups of 3 and Community Table Subscribers
For More Information & Registration
The important and often challenging work of meaningful dialogue, collaboration, and change-making calls on us to engage ourselves with rigorous and compassionate personal practice. It is both an opportunity and a responsibility for us to look closely at our own limiting beliefs and patterns in order to learn with humility, amplify our potential for positive contribution and shift the negative impact we can sometimes have, even if it is not intentional. Self-inquiry based personal practice can also provide us with valuable insights for our learning, growth, and wellbeing.

Origin Call with Harrison Owen
2020-01-22 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
You are warmly invited to join Beehive Productions hosts Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen for our next Origin Call with Harrison Owen.
In these Origin Calls, Beehive invites elders in the Central Garden to share some of their first discoveries on their journey as an invitation to conversation about what we are all seeing together. In this way, all of us in the Central Garden are connecting to our lineage and future potential. These calls are available free to all, but you must register to participate. Recordings of previous calls in the series are also available.
Harrison Owen
Founder, Open Space Technology
Harrison offers us a peek into the most natural and essential human behaviors – self organization. Reminding us that we know how to be together, to collaborate and make stuff happen, with the support of simple, basic structures.
By giving voice and visibility to Open Space Technology, Harrison has offered all of us a pattern and practice for engaging each other in what matters to us in a spirited manner, balancing just enough order with just enough chaos.
For More Information & Registration

Learning Together: Deeper Levels of Knowing
2020-01-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
A World Cafe Live! Event
Learning Together: Deeper Levels of Knowing
Join us for an interactive collective inquiry into the heart of learning.
With David Issacs, Carol Gorelick and Bruce Noll.
This event is open to the public, and free to Community Table Subscribers
Registration is Required
For More Information & Registration

January Community Cafe
2020-01-08 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Wednesday, January 8
10 am – 12.30 pm California | 1 pm – 3.30 pm Boston | 7 pm – 9.30 pm Paris
(use a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area)

This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series hosted every month with and for the World Cafe community and the wider “central garden” of participatory practitioners.
These Community Cafes offer an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
Fee by Donation: $5 – $20
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

Office Hour with David Isaacs
2020-01-07 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Bring your questions about designing and hosting to our first Community Table Office Hour – with World Cafe co-founder David Isaacs!
Drop-in – no registration needed.
This opportunity is for Community Table Subscribers Only
(see Community Table Invitation for more information & how to subscribe)

Open House December
2019-12-16 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Have you heard about the Community Table and have a few questions?
Join us at the Open House session on
Monday, December 16
9 – 11 am California | 12 – 2 pm Boston | 6 – 8 pm Paris
(use a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area)

Free – drop-in – no registration needed!
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/249716102 | Meeting ID: 249 716 102

December Community Cafe
2019-12-11 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Wednesday, December 11
10 am – 12.30 pm California | 1 pm – 3.30 pm Boston | 7 pm – 9.30 pm Paris
(use a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area)

This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series hosted every month with and for the World Cafe community and the wider “central garden” of participatory practitioners.
These Community Cafes offer an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
Fee by Donation: $10 – $30
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

World Café at the European Commission
2015-11-06 12:30 - 14:30 UTC | European Commission, Rue Philippe Le Bon 3, room 1.4. (1st floor), Brussels, Belgium
(local time in Brussels)

The European Commission has used the World Café extensively over many years as part of a participatory engagement strategy to impact social issues, community relationships, internal decisions, and develop conversational leadership within the Commission. To help celebrate the World Café’s 20th Anniversary, members of the European Commission will host a special Impact Café on Nov 6.
Organiser: Art of Participatory Leadership Practitioners Community in the EU Institutions
Time: 12.30 – 14.30 (arrival time as of 12.00, actual start 12.30)
Address: Rue Philippe Le Bon 3, room 1.4. (1st floor)
Those who do not own Commission badges please contact Frans for registration: Frans.NIJS@ec.europa.eu
Hosts: Dominika Novak, Frans Nijs, & Ursula Hillbrand

Impact Café Brussels
2015-10-27 18:30 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris)
(Time shown is local time Brussels, UTC +1)

What if the magical web of connections helps us to build resilient communities, together – in our organisations and in the larger field?
We are inviting all who are curious to explore the field of “organisations as communities” from diverse perspectives: corporations, NGO’s, legal advisors, economists, out-of-the-box-thinkers, innovators, social entrepreneurs…

Hosts: Paige Morrow and Michaela Sieh

Asia Impact Café
2015-10-27 10:30 - 13:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
(Time shown is local time in Tokyo, Japan; UTC +9)
From Mumbai, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia – we will have people joining us from all over Asia for this cutting-edge online Impact Cafe using MaestroConference and Zoom.
The purpose of this event is to explore using the World Cafe to enhance collaborations and support mutual goals among facilitators across Asia.
Hosted by: Amy Lenzo, Kazuaki Katori, Natsu Iwaki,
Digital Graphic Recording: Rachel Smith (Grove International)
Sponsored by: IAF Japan (International Association of Facilitators, Japan)

The Power of the World Café
2015-10-25 10:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Venue To Be Announced, Tokyo, Japan
The Difference We Can Make for Our Communities, Organizations and Society
(Time shown is local time in Tokyo, Japan; UTC +9)
Juanita Brown will be coming in via Satellite to join Amy Lenzo in co-hosting the morning session for this Impact Café with professional facilitators throughout Japan.
We’ll be addressing the deeper meaning and purpose of World Cafe in a changing world and the role of Conversational Leadership as a core competence for organizations, community, & societal change in the 21st Century.
In the afternoon session, co-hosted by Amy Lenzo and Kazuaki Katori, we will hear stories of World Cafe’s impact within Japan and explore the opportunities and possibilities of applying what we’ve learned together about using World Café to support positive social change in Japan and beyond.

Hosted by: Juanita Brown (joining via satellite), Amy Lenzo, and Kazuaki Katori
Sponsored by: IAF & Japan/FAJ (International Association of Facilitators & Facilitators Association Japan)

Cultivating Conversational Leadership in Tampa Bay
2015-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | West Tampa Branch Library, 2312 W. Union St., Tampa, FL, 33607-3423, United States
(Time shown is local time Tampa, Florida; UTC-4)

The term ‘conversations’ is used more and more, as well as cries for civic engagement. Do we know how to be valuable participants of Democracy 4.0?
World Café offers a model that has worked in countries, languages and cultures for 20 years.
How might Tampa Bay enrich community connections to enliven the power of the collective?
How might we each become better citizens by acquiring skills in conversational leadership around questions that matter to this community?

Hosts: Eric Weaver, Sharon Joy Kleitsch

Brisbane Impact Café
2015-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Jeays Street Neighbourhood Centre, 12 Jeays Street, Bowen Hills, Australia
(Time shown is local time Brisbane, UTC +10)

We are being called to step up in our lives, our communities, our countries.
What is the contribution we could make to starting conversations that matter in our Australian context?
A warm invitation to explore the question: What time is it for my community?
A special event to celebrate 20 years of The World Café. We will share our harvest with the World Café community – contributing to a truly international World Café Impact Jamboree, with Impact Cafes on every continent.
What is the contribution we can make?

Hosts:
Penny Hamilton and Mel Geltch

World Café Masterclass
2015-10-23 11:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Venue To Be Announced, Tokyo, Japan
(Time shown is local time in Tokyo, Japan; UTC +9)
Join us as we celebrate the impact of World Café in Japan by deepening our individual and collective capacity to convene and host the conversations that will shape and impact our future/s.

Hosted by: Amy Lenzo

Sponsored by: Qualia, Ltd.

Wiser Together Impact Café
2015-10-17 14:45 - 16:15 (America/Denver) | Bioneers, San Rafael, CA, United States
Intergenerational Partnerships for The Great Turning
(Time shown is local time in San Rafael, CA, USA; UTC -7)
How can we work inter-generationally to usher in “The Great Turning” towards a life sustaining society? Come join conversations about how we can collaborate across the cycle of life to shape our shared future.

Hosts: David Shaw, UCSC Common Ground Center; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development; Joanna Macy, Bioneers elder, author and seed teacher of The Work That Reconnects;

AoH NL Community Impact Café
2015-10-17 11:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Impact Hub Amsterdam, Haarlemmerweg 8, Amsterdam, 1034 BE, Netherlands
Seeing the Landscape of our Practice and Contexts
This is part of an Art of Hosting Netherlands community Comeback Day.
The Café will bring together the community and share where we are in our practice, honouring the lineage of social technologies and communities that have been part of the journey. This event is for those who have participated in an Art of Hosting training (not open to the general public).
Hosts: Laura, Mohamed, Sandra, Tatiana and Tijmen

Invitation

World Café's Impact in Tampa Bay
2015-10-16 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Panera Bread, 1908 4th St N, St Petersburg, FL, 33708, United States
(Time shown is local time St Petersburg, Florida; UTC -4)

Every Friday night for four years, curious, caring individuals came together for a World Café at Starbucks in St Petersburg Florida to share what’s happening and to learn. Each week there was a unique theme and all kinds of learning experiences arose, some not on our agenda. From these conversations that matter, people found others with a similar passion and they didn’t stop at closing time. Come honor the impact that World Cafe has had in the Tampa Bay area and be part of what’s ahead.

Hosts: Douglas Bonar, Eric Weaver and Sharon Joy Kleitsch

Wiser Together Impact Café
2015-10-16 14:45 - 16:15 (America/Denver) | Bioneers, San Rafael, CA, United States
Village Building & Reclaiming the Commons
(Time shown is local time in San Rafael, CA, USA; UTC -7)
Can we turn isolated communities and fractured environments into resilient, intergenerational, nature-connected villages? Come join conversations about public placemaking, reclaiming the commons, permaculture, and slowing down into deep community.

Hosts: David Shaw, UCSC Common Ground Center; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development.

Inquiry Café at the Ella Pearson Mitchell Preaching Conference
2015-10-16 09:00 (America/Halifax) | Hillside International Truth Center, 2450 Cascade Road, Atlanta, GA, 30311, United States
Consider a well: Deep, ancient and contemporary – like preaching. Consider a well as a reservoir of fresh water. The preaching well is the well from which Dr Ella Pearson Mitchell drank deeply. From it she received her voice and encouraged so many women to bring their buckets to that well to find their voices.
The Ella Pearson Mitchell Preaching Conference, sponsored by Women In Leadership International LLC, The Ella and Henry Mitchell Fund for Theological Education, and WomanPreach! Inc. offers you a deep well around which we will gather to engage in conversations that matter as we find and use our collective voices to speak to the complexities of the 21st century. Our question: What is the future of preaching in the 21st century?
​In addressing the complexities of the 21st century, one aspect that we feel is essential is a commitment & practice of radical inclusion. As such, though the roots of this gathering grow out of the preaching of women of color, it is incumbent upon us to widen our circle to explicitly include spiritual groups of all kinds – especially those of intersex & transgender communities. We welcome and invite all communities of spirit.

Host: Marsha Boyd

Find the invitation here

Impact Café São Paulo
2015-10-16 08:30 - 12:00 (America/Sao_Paulo) | Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Time shown is local time Sao Paulo; UTC – 3)

Have you ever been personally impacted by a World Café that you have hosted or participated in? Have you witnessed the impact of a World Café in an organisation or in the world?
We would like to invite you to celebrate the journey of friendship, learnings, collaboration and action. Join us to share your impact stories during these 20 years of World Café with other practitioners from this community.
Invitation – One Page Flyer

Hosted by: Augusto Cuginotti, Eduardo Afonso, & Cristina D’Arce
