The World Cafe

Community Cafe January 2022
2022-01-27 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
We invite you to a special Community World Cafe
“Open Conversation”
January 27th
ONLINE

10 – 12:30 Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 Eastern Time
7 – 9:30 Central European Time

Let’s “dream into” a new year of Community World Cafes together… What topics would you like to explore now? What would you like to see happen in our monthly Community World Cafes this year?

This is YOUR community;
Show up and make your voice heard!

(You are welcome to help seed this important community conversation by sharing your thoughts & ideas ahead of time, HERE.)

THIS SPECIAL EVENT IS FREE FOR ALL
(but you must register to receive the access link)

More Information and Registration

Hosting Dojo February
2022-02-02 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
World Cafe Hosting Dojo
SAME NAME * BRAND NEW FORMAT
NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL “CENTRAL GARDEN” HOSTS
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
10 am – 11.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
3 – 4.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 19:00 – 20.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
Sliding Scale
Always free to Community Table Subscribers
(see Community Table Calendar for discount code)
The monthly Hosting Dojo offers an “open space” to drop in, in your own time, & connect with a larger global community of hosts; to ask questions, share insights, receive the wisdom of the group, and develop your practice. A space to find our way to the “magic in the middle” together.
Offering hospitable space to “host as part of a community” (4th fold of the Art of Hosting’s Fourfold practice). For all World Cafe and other hosts of participatory practice, wherever you are, whatever your practice.
This is not a workshop. There is no pre-set topic or agenda. No “presentation”. No top-down structure or time requirement.
Just support, nourishment for you and your work, and an emergent atmosphere with thoughtful focus on whatever you bring to the dojo.
For 90 minutes on the first Wednesday of every month, we’ll be there, keeping the tea hot and the fire going, ready to welcome you.
Your Hosts,
Amy Lenzo & Michaela Sieh

Beyond Facilitation: Mastering the FourFold Practice
2022-02-16 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
The Fourfold Practice is a holon, meaning each part of the map incorporates and moves beyond the point that comes before it. When all parts of this map are in balance, you bring both greater presence and greater effectiveness to your work and life; your inner world and your outer expression are in generative relationship.
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Claim your space a part of this series of four crucial sessions with experienced hosts and stewards Amy Lenzo (World Cafe) & Mary Alice Arthur (Art of Hosting). Join us as we take a deeper look at the methodologies, maps, approaches, and principles that underpin the leading edge of participatory group process.

The is the first of four modules in the Beyond Facilitation series. Choose the whole four-course meal or select “a la carte.”

Throughout the series, we will be exploring invaluable gifts from the Art of Hosting Community and integrating insights from Mary Alice Arthur’s deep understanding of narrative.

Beyond Facilitation: Secrets of Extraordinary Hosting
2022-02-16 10:00 - 2022-03-30 12:30 | ONLINE
A LEARNING PROGRAM OFFERED BY WORLD CAFE LEARNING PARTNER WEDIALOGUE
Every Other Wednesday;
February 16th, March 2nd, 16th, & 30th
10 – 12:30 PT / 1 – 3:30 ET / 7 – 9:30 CET
ONLINE
How can we move together through challenge and change and into more collaborative and participatory practice? What does it take to move beyond techniques to become more skillful in hosting groups?
Move into the heart of hosting to deepen your skills, your awareness and your practice.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn with Art of Hosting Steward and Story Activist, Mary Alice Arthur.
In four short stand-alone 2.5 hour sessions presented and co-hosted by World Cafe Steward Amy Lenzo, of weDialogue, Beyond Facilitation is designed for serious participatory practitioners who want to deepen the foundations of their practice.
The first two sessions are based on Mary Alice Arthur’s years of experience with and deep understanding of two priceless gifts developed by the Art of Hosting community for the field of participatory practice – The Fourfold Practice and the Eight Breaths of Process Architecture. Understanding these fundamentals will immediately deepen your practice, no matter what format/s you are using in your hosting practice.
In the last two sessions of Beyond Facilitation, Mary Alice blends leading-edge arts of participatory practice with a deep understanding of narrative, the “secret sauce” of extraordinary hosting. Presenting story and hosting in a unique and highly potent fusion, Mary Alice reveals story as an integral part of working with groups and shows us how to dance with it as one of your most trusted process partners.
Choose the whole four-course meal or select “a la carte.”
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Community Cafe February 17, 2022
2022-02-17 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
How can World Cafe Design Principles help us host conversations across polarized divides?
In our January Community Cafe, we engaged in a conversation about topics for our upcoming Community Cafes in 2021. One topic that emerged was “How to host conversations across polarized divides?”.
This month, we’ll begin to dive into this large field – this time, with a particular focus on the World Cafe Design Principles. The design principles provide orientation in challenging situations and can be our compass for times when we are at risk to feel overwhelmed.
The monthly online Community Cafes offer us an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
We are meeting on
Thursday, February 17
10 am – 12.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 3.30 pm New York |
3 – 5.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 7 – 9.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
Fee: Sliding scale. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone, and always free to Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you will find in the Community Table calendar.
More information & Registration

World Cafe Live! Story: The Secret Sauce of Extraordinary Hosting
2022-02-24 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
A World Cafe Live!
February 24th, 2022
10am – 12:30pm Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
ONLINE
Sliding Scale
Free for Community Table subscribers
(see Community Table calendar for details)
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Join Art of Hosting Steward and Story Activist Mary Alice Arthur for this extraordinary opportunity to integrate the “secret sauce” of story into your hosting practice.
Hosted by the World Cafe Community Foundation, this is a World Cafe Live! event featuring practitioners within the international community of World Cafe and other participatory practices. We come together to share our passions, inspire and inform each other, and explore – in community.
Marty Alice Arthur is a renowned international host who has integrated her passion for story and narrative into her hosting practice at a deep level.
Join us for this exciting World Cafe to inhabit your own story more fully, and learn more about how to bring story into your hosting practice.
REGISTER NOW

Mary Alice Arthur
www.getsoaring.com
Mary Alice is a Story Activist working with story in service of positive systemic shift and for focusing collective intelligence on critical issues. She guides people to find and activate the story that will take them into a larger and more authentic future.
With story as an ally, people become the visionary leaders, changemakers, and paradigm shifters they want to be. They know story is our lens on the world and determines our agency. They have the knowledge and tools to change it for the better.

Beyond Facilitation Asia Pacific: Secrets of Extraordinary Hosting
2022-03-07 19:00 - 21:30 | ONLINE
A LEARNING PROGRAM OFFERED BY WORLD CAFE LEARNING PARTNER WEDIALOGUE
The very popular Beyond Facilitation course, offered in an Asia Pacific-Friendly Time
Tuesdays;
March 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th
7:30 – 10am in Mumbai, India (IST)
9 – 11:30am in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (ICT)
10am – 12:30pm in Shanghai, China (CST)
11am – 1:30pm in Tokyo, Japan (JST)
12 – 2:30 pm in Brisbane, Queensland (AEST)
ONLINE
(30% Discount for Community Table subscribers
See Community Table Calendar for details)
How can we move together through challenge and change and into more collaborative and participatory practice? What does it take to move beyond techniques to become more skillful in hosting groups?
Move into the heart of hosting to deepen your skills, your awareness, and your practice.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn with Art of Hosting Steward and Story Activist, Mary Alice Arthur.
In four 2.5 hour sessions, co-hosted by World Cafe Steward Amy Lenzo and Art of Hosting Steward Mary Alice Authur, Beyond Facilitation is designed for serious participatory practitioners who want to deepen the foundations of their practice.
The first two sessions are based on Mary Alice Arthur’s years of experience with and deep understanding of two priceless gifts developed by the Art of Hosting community for the field of participatory practice – The Fourfold Practice and the Eight Breaths of Process Architecture. Understanding these fundamentals will immediately deepen your practice, no matter what format/s you are using in your hosting practice.
In the last two sessions of Beyond Facilitation, Mary Alice blends leading-edge arts of participatory practice with a deep understanding of narrative, the “secret sauce” of extraordinary hosting. Presenting story and hosting in a unique and highly potent fusion, Mary Alice reveals story as an integral part of working with groups and shows us how to dance with it as one of your most trusted process partners.
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Community Cafe March 10, 2022
2022-03-10 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
The monthly online Community Cafes offer us an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
We are meeting on
Thursday, March 1o
10 am – 12.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 3.30 pm New York |
3 – 5.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 7 – 9.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
Fee: Sliding scale. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone, and always free to Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you will find in the Community Table calendar.
More information & Registration

March Digital Sandbox
2022-03-14 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
The World Café Community Foundation offers a monthly Digital Sandbox: a safe and playful space to play with the technical options of platforms like Zoom with peers, especially the options that cannot easily be tested alone. A place where together we can explore the ways technology supports us in creating hospitable space online.
Monday, March 14th, 2022
10 am – 11.30 am San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 6 – 7.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
By Donation – $10 – $20
Free to Community Table Subscribers (see the discount code on the Community Table calendar)
Hosted by
Anne-Claire Frank-Seisay, Maartje de Meer,
Michaela Sieh & Amy Lenzo

More Information & Registration

Origin Call with Liberating Structures Founders
2022-03-15 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
Join our colleagues at Beehive Productions for one of their wonderful “Origin Calls” to hear from the pioneers in our field. This Origin Story call features Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz, founders of the Liberating Structures model.
An origin story where we explore how a new language for self-organising and participatory practices was created.
Keith and Henri set out to find ways to answer the question: Why is it that so many organizations of all stripes are filled with disengaged workers, dysfunctional groups, and wasted ideas?
Collaborating, they found and developed Liberating Structures, microstructures that anyone can use at any level of an organization to start to change how we relate and work together.
Join us to learn more about this extraordinary work and hear about how it has evolved over the years.
Origin Story with Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz
March 15th, 2022
10 am – 12 pm Pacific Time
NOTE THAT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME HAS GONE INTO EFFECT IN THE US &
NOT YET IN EUROPE, SO CHECK A TIME ZONE CONVERTER FOR LOCAL TIMES
ONLINE
Hosted by Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen (Beehive Productions)
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Witnessing Trauma: Hosting Each Other and Ourselves
2022-03-17 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
A World Cafe Live!
Witnessing Trauma: Hosting Each Other and Ourselves
Thursday March 17th, 2022
10am – 12:30pm Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
18:00 – 20:30 Central European Time
NOTE THAT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME HAS GONE INTO EFFECT IN THE US CHECK A TIME ZONE CONVERTER FOR LOCAL TIMES

ONLINE
Sliding Scale
Free for Community Table subscribers
(see Community Table calendar for details)
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Join hosts Ian Andersen, Michaela Sieh, and Amy Lenzo in sharing your experiences, perspectives, and insights about what it means to witness trauma – in ourselves, in others, in the field – and host ourselves and each other as we do so.
Hosted by the World Cafe Community Foundation, this is a World Cafe Live! event featuring practitioners within the international community of World Cafe and other participatory practices. We come together to share our passions, inspire and inform each other, and explore – in community.
REGISTER NOW

April Digital Sandbox
2022-04-11 08:00 - 17:00 | ONLINE
The World Café Community Foundation offers a monthly Digital Sandbox: a safe and playful space to play with the technical options of platforms like Zoom with peers, especially the options that cannot easily be tested alone. A place where together we can explore the ways technology supports us in creating hospitable space online.
Monday, April 11th, 2022
10 am – 11.30 am San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 6 – 7.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
By Donation – $10 – $20
Free to Community Table Subscribers (see the discount code on the Community Table calendar)
Hosted by
Anne-Claire Frank-Seisay, Maartje de Meer,
Michaela Sieh & Amy Lenzo

More Information & Registration

Awakening Collaborative Wisdom: Possibilities Flourishing in our World
2022-04-20 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
10 – 12:30 Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 Eastern Time | 7 – 9:30 Central European Time
ONLINE
Join the next gathering of our growing global community of practice and engage in an inquiry free from any agenda other than birthing emergent Awareness. Through a series of small group conversations, grounded in authenticity, shared learning, and heart, you will witness wisdom revealing itself through (and to) all, ultimately showering the garden of life.
Bring your curiosity, playfulness, and receptivity to a field where people can share from the heart. Please consider inviting a friend to our awakening and emerging inquiry.
Your hosts – David Isaacs, Carol Gorelick, Bruce Noll, Greta Anderson, Gordon Brode, Andrew Mackenzie, and the team from the World Café Community Foundation Michaela Sieh, and Viola Clark – look forward to welcoming you.
This conversation is one in an ongoing program of gatherings – You’re invited to be part of this exploration into our collective capacity to awaken collaborative wisdom at deeper and deeper levels. NOTE: We want to keep you updated with occasional communications while respecting email privacy laws, so please indicate your willingness to be contacted by clicking the box to join the ACW mailing list when you register.
REGISTER NOW!
(sliding scale to everyone – free for Community Table Subscribers – see the Community Table Calendar for the code)

Re-Opening: Hosting Onsite Gatherings in a Changed World
2022-04-28 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
We invite you to our next Community World Cafe!

We meet on
Thursday, April 28
10 am – 12:30 pm PDT | 1 – 3:30 pm EDT | 7 – 9:30 pm CEST

Hosting onsite in a world that is re-opening after numerous lockdowns and strict regulations certainly is an adventure. For some of us, this adventure has already started with the first onsite gathering to look back on, for others, doors are opening very soon. Some might be waiting/hoping for the first call to step back into an onsite hosting role.

We invite you all to come and share your experiences, your feelings, your thoughts, and your reflections. So much wisdom, talents, and skills are present in our global Community of Practice. Let’s learn from each other: how can we “keep calm and host onsite” in 2022 and beyond?
More Information and Registration

Hosting Dojo May
2022-05-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
World Cafe Hosting Dojo
NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL “CENTRAL GARDEN” HOSTS
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
10 am – 11.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 19:00 – 20.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
More Information and Registration
The monthly Hosting Dojo offers an “open space” to drop in, in your own time, & connect with a larger global community of hosts; to ask questions, share insights, receive the wisdom of the group, and develop your practice. A space to find our way to the “magic in the middle” together.
Offering hospitable space to “host as part of a community” (4th fold of the Art of Hosting’s Fourfold practice). For all World Cafe and other hosts of participatory practice, wherever you are, whatever your practice.
This is not a workshop. There is no pre-set topic or agenda. No “presentation”. No top-down structure or time requirement.
Just support, nourishment for you and your work, and an emergent atmosphere with thoughtful focus on whatever you bring to the dojo.
For 90 minutes on the first Wednesday of every month, we’ll be there, keeping the tea hot and the fire going, ready to welcome you.
Your Hosts,
Amy Lenzo & Michaela Sieh

Re-Opening: Hosting Onsite in a Changing World
2022-05-20 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
We meet on
Friday, May 20th
10 am – 12:30 pm PDT | 1 – 3:30 pm EDT | 7 – 9:30 pm CEST

Hosting onsite in a world that is re-opening after numerous lockdowns and strict regulations certainly is an adventure. For some of us, this adventure has already started with the first onsite gathering to look back on, for others, doors are opening very soon. Some might be waiting/hoping for the first call to step back into an onsite hosting role.

We invite you all to come and share your experiences, your feelings, your thoughts, and your reflections. So much wisdom, talents, and skills are present in our global Community of Practice. Let’s learn from each other: how can we “keep calm and host onsite” in 2022 and beyond?
More Information and Registration

June Hosting Dojo
2022-06-01 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
World Cafe Hosting Dojo
NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL “CENTRAL GARDEN” HOSTS
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
10 am – 11.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 19:00 – 20.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
More Information and Registration
The monthly Hosting Dojo offers an “open space” to drop in, in your own time, & connect with a larger global community of hosts; to ask questions, share insights, receive the wisdom of the group, and develop your practice. A space to find our way to the “magic in the middle” together.
Offering hospitable space to “host as part of a community” (4th fold of the Art of Hosting’s Fourfold practice). For all World Cafe and other hosts of participatory practice, wherever you are, whatever your practice.
This is not a workshop. There is no pre-set topic or agenda. No “presentation”. No top-down structure or time requirement.
Just support, nourishment for you and your work, and an emergent atmosphere with thoughtful focus on whatever you bring to the dojo.
For 90 minutes on the first Wednesday of every month, we’ll be there, keeping the tea hot and the fire going, ready to welcome you.
Your Hosts,
Amy Lenzo & Michaela Sieh

Re-Balancing - The Pause: An Integral Part of our Practice?
2022-06-21 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
We invite you to our next Community World Cafe
Tuesday, June 21st
ONLINE
10 – 12:30 Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 Eastern Time | 7 – 9:30 Central European Time

What is your own experience with taking a breath, taking a break? Are conscious pauses part of your practice?
We’ve been reflecting on inhale and exhale, on the role of pacing ourselves and our teams, on balancing contraction and expansion.
This month, right before the time of (potential) summer holidays in the Northern Hemisphere, seems to bring a lot of “squeezing everything in before we get to exhale”. How long can you hold your breath???
We want to invite you all to come and share your experiences, your feelings, your thoughts, and reflections. So much wisdom, talents, and skills are present in our global Community of Practice. Let’s learn from each other: how can we “keep calm and host” in 2022 and beyond?
More Information and Registration

July Digital Sandbox
2022-07-11 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
The World Café Community Foundation offers a monthly Digital Sandbox: a safe and playful space to play with the technical options of platforms like Zoom with peers, especially the options that cannot easily be tested alone. A place where together we can explore the ways technology supports us in creating hospitable space online.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
10 am – 11.30 am San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 6 – 7.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
By Donation – $10 – $20
Free to Community Table Subscribers (see the discount code on the Community Table calendar)
Hosted by
Anne-Claire Frank-Seisay, Maartje de Meer,
Michaela Sieh & Amy Lenzo

More Information & Registration

What First Nations Can Teach Us About Power & Privilege
2022-08-18 09:00 - 11:00 | ONLINE
A GLEN Exchange leading into the Transforming Power and Privilege course being offered in September by World Cafe Learning Partner Beehive Productions.
FREE
Hosted by Amy Lenzo. Rowan Simonsen, and FireHawk Hulin.
As facilitators and hosts, we work within an invisible field of interconnectedness, where power and privilege shape relationships and possibilities. What can First Nations teach us about navigating power dynamics – in ourselves, with each other, and in the world? In this exchange, we will explore indigenous understandings of power and privilege through storytelling and dialogue. Listening deeply to the innate wisdom of the natural world – of which we are a part — we will each discover new ways to see and work with power and privilege.

August Community Cafe - Seeing with New Eyes
2022-08-24 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
What does it take to begin seeing with new eyes – to begin seeing the larger picture… ?
Sometimes, it takes hiking up a mountain: the moment when you have reached the top and you are immersed in the beauty of the 360° panorama.
Sometimes, it takes listening to a story that really touches us.
Sometimes, it takes a wake-up call to radically shift our own perspective on a certain issue.
Sometimes, it takes a conversation in a World Cafe… Join us for the August Community Cafe – give yourself time and space to be in a global community of peers, in conversation.
This month, we are meeting on
Wednesday, August 24th
10 am – 12.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 3.30 pm New York |
3 – 5.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 7 – 9.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
Fee: Sliding scale. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone, and always free to Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you will find in the Community Table calendar.
More information & Registration

Asia Pacific August Community Cafe
2022-08-25 20:00 - 22:30 | ONLINE
What does it take to begin seeing with new eyes – to begin seeing the larger picture… ?
Sometimes, it takes hiking up a mountain: the moment when you have reached the top and you are immersed in the beauty of the 360° panorama.
Sometimes, it takes listening to a story that really touches us.
Sometimes, it takes a wake-up call to radically shift our own perspective on a certain issue.
Sometimes, it takes a conversation in a World Cafe… Join us for the August Community Cafe – give yourself time and space to be in a global community of peers, in conversation.
This month, we are launching a new monthly Community Cafe for our community in an Asia Pacific time zone:
Wednesday, August 25th
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 11 – 1:30 in Beijing |
12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30pm Wellington
ONLINE
(in English)
Fee: Sliding scale. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone, and always free to Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you will find in the Community Table calendar.
More information & Registration

Significant Stories
2022-09-07 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
From Our Learning Partners weDialogue and SOAR
Seven Sessions, starting September 7th!
What if you could change how the world sees you? With five SIGNIFICANT STORIES, you can!
That’s right — out of all the thousands of stories that make up your life, just five are so key that they are the foundation for your future.
These are the stories we’ll be working with in SIGNIFICANT STORIES.
SIGNIFICANT STORIES is a full learning experience around the power of storytelling, guided by Mary Alice Arthur and Amy Lenzo.
We meet online for 7 sessions to create the foundation and the structure for bringing your stories to life. In small group peer circles, you’ll have the opportunity to refine your stories. With input from us live in the online sessions, and an opportunity to get support on our platform from the whole group, you’ll get the feedback you want and the courage you need to make them count.
More information and a link to Register
30% Discount for groups of 3 or more
30% Discount for Community Table Subscribers (see Community Table Calendar for code)

World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals 2022
2022-09-10 09:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
The long-awaited once-a-year Signature World Cafe Learning Program is now open for registration!
REVISED & UPDATED WITH NEW CONTENT
September 10 – November 5th
ONLINE
8 weeks of rigorous peer-learning in a World Cafe format
Real-Time sessions every Saturday (except October 15th)
9 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
12 – 2:30 Eastern Time
18: – 20:30 Central European Time
Check a Time Zone Converter for Local Time in your area
$800
$100 off for Early Bird Registrations (before August 23rd)
30% off for Groups of 3 or more & Community Table Subscribers
Limited Scholarships Available

MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
HOSTED BY AMY LENZO
An offical Signature Learning Program
Offered by the World Cafe Community Foundation

Transforming Power and Privilege
2022-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
A new course from World Cafe Learning Partner Beehive Productions:
An Exploration into Transforming Power & Privilege
Two Thursdays and Two Fridays: September 15th, 16th, 29th & 30th
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
1 – 3pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21.00 Central European Time
ONLINE
COST
$350
(30% Discount for groups of 3 or more & Community Table subscribers)
Contact us with names & email addresses for group discount codes & see the Community Table Calendar for subscriber’s discount code
How do we work wisely with power to ensure that the seeds of our collective insights can grow into strong actions?
Anywhere we show up, we step into an often invisible field of interconnectedness, where power has had a role in shaping the fabric of our relationships.
We invite you to explore the nature of power and how you use it through a lens partly rooted in First Nation cultural concepts, practicing Depth, Courage, Vision and Joy as strategies for transforming the way we engage in our meetings, organizations, and social movements.
HOSTED BY
Chris Corrigan
Kelly Porier
& Beehive Productions (Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen)

FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Awakening Collaborative Wisdom
2022-09-21 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
Wednesday, August 21st, 2022
10 – 12:30 Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 Eastern Time | 7 – 9:30 Central European Time
ONLINE
Join the next gathering of our growing global community of practice and engage in an inquiry free from any agenda other than birthing emergent Awareness. Through a series of small group conversations, grounded in authenticity, shared learning, and heart, you will witness wisdom revealing itself through (and to) all, ultimately showering the garden of life.
Bring your curiosity, playfulness, and receptivity to a field where people can share from the heart. Please consider inviting a friend to our awakening and emerging inquiry.
Your hosts – David Isaacs, Carol Gorelick, Bruce Noll, Greta Anderson, Gordon Brode, Andrew Mackenzie, and the team from the World Café Community Foundation Amy Lenzo, Michaela Sieh, and Viola Clark – look forward to welcoming you.
This conversation is one in an ongoing program of gatherings – You’re invited to be part of this exploration into our collective capacity to awaken collaborative wisdom at deeper and deeper levels.
REGISTER NOW!
(sliding scale to everyone – free for Community Table Subscribers – see the Community Table Calendar for the code)

September Community World Cafe
2022-09-22 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
Working as a Team
There is so much to explore in this field of teamwork. What does it take to work as a team AND to create and hold a space that enables self-expression?
We invite you to join us in this inquiry. This Community Cafe is also the Learning Cafe for the Hosting Fundamentals Cohort of 2022 – so you are in for a special treat of reflective meta-commentary by Amy Lenzo, the Director of World Cafe Signature Learning Programs.
This month, we are meeting on
Thursday, September 22nd
10 am – 12.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 3.30 pm New York |
3 – 5.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 7 – 9.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
Fee: Sliding scale. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone, and always free to Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you will find in the Community Table calendar.
More information & Registration

Asia Pacific Community Cafe September
2022-09-27 20:00 - 22:30 | ONLINE
Working as a Team
There is so much to explore in this field of teamwork. What does it take to work as a team AND to create and hold a space that enables self-expression?
We invite you to join us in this inquiry.
This month, we are meeting on
Wednesday, September 28th
8:30 – 11 am in New Delhi | 11 – 1:30 in Beijing |
12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30pm Wellington
Pacific Time: September 27th | 8 pm – 10.30 pm
ONLINE
Fee: Sliding scale. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone, and always free to Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you will find in the Community Table calendar.
More information & Registration

Hosting Dojo October
2022-10-06 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
World Cafe Hosting Dojo
Thursday, October 6, 2022
10 am – 11.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 19:00 – 20.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
More Information and Registration
The monthly Hosting Dojo offers an “open space” to drop in, in your own time & connect with a larger global community of hosts; to ask questions, share insights, receive the wisdom of the group, and develop your practice. A space to find our way to the “magic in the middle” together.
Offering hospitable space to “host as part of a community” (4th fold of the Art of Hosting’s Fourfold practice). For all World Cafe and other hosts of participatory practice, wherever you are, whatever your practice.
This is not a workshop. There is no pre-set topic or agenda. No “presentation.” No top-down structure or time requirement.
Just support, nourishment for you and your work, and an emergent atmosphere with a thoughtful focus on whatever you bring to the dojo.
For 90 minutes, we’ll be there, keeping the tea hot and the fire going, ready to welcome you.
Your Hosts,
Amy Lenzo & Michaela Sieh

Digital Sandbox October 10
2022-10-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
The monthly Digital Sandbox is a playful space where together we can explore the ways technology supports us in creating hospitable space online.
Here, we bring our questions, learn by doing, try out new things, and exchange knowledge and experience. We experiment as peers with technical features of platforms like Zoom, online whiteboards, polling tools, and so many more.
Monday, October 10th, 2022
10 am – 11.30 am San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 7 – 8.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
By Donation – $10 – $20
Free to Community Table Subscribers (see the discount code on the Community Table calendar)
Hosted by
Anne-Claire Frank-Seisay, Maartje de Meer,
Michaela Sieh & Amy Lenzo

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