The World Cafe

May Community Cafe (Americas & Europe)
2023-05-24 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
We invite you to our May Community World Cafe (in a America/Europe Time Zone)
Holding Space for Emergence: The Magic in the Middle

Wednesday, May 24th, 2024
ONLINE
10 – 12:30 Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 Eastern Time
7 – 9:30 Central European Time
This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series we host every month with and for the World Cafe community and for the larger Central Garden of participatory practices.
These Community Cafes give us as a global community a time to lean in; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.
Fee: Sliding scale ($5 – $20). 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.

Asia Pacific June Community Cafe - June 21st
2023-06-20 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Welcoming the Stranger – Turning to One Another
Join us for the June Community World Cafe:
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 10am – 12:30pm in Jakarta & Hanoi | 11am – 1:30pm in Beijing |12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo
1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30pm Wellington

Tuesday, June 20
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm San Francisco
ONLINE
IN ENGLISH with translated captions
Hosted by Amy Lenzo, Tommy Oshima,
Nami Ishihara, Grace Hong, Cathy Yu, and Ana Golodne
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Americas-Europe Community Cafe June 28
2023-06-28 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Join us for the June Community World Cafe:
Welcoming the Stranger – Turning to One Another
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
ONLINE
10 am – 12:30 pm PDT | 1 pm – 3:30 pm EDT | 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm CEST
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Community Cafe Americas-Europe July 2023
2023-07-17 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
RE-IMAGINE COLLABORATION
Collaboration comes in so many different forms and shapes. We collaborate with our co-hosts, and we explore how to best work with our clients. We design processes that enable collaboration.
And let’s remind ourselves: it takes a village. It takes humans working together to make a difference, one conversation at a time.
Monday, July 17, 2023 ONLINE
10:00 am – 12:30 pm PDT | 1:00 – 3:30 pm EDT | 7:00 – 9:30 pm CEST
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Fee: Sliding scale ($5 – $20)
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Community Cafe Asia-Pacific July 2023
2023-07-19 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
RE-IMAGINE COLLABORATION
Collaboration comes in so many different forms and shapes. We collaborate with our co-hosts, and we explore how to best work with our clients. We design processes that enable collaboration.
And let’s remind ourselves: it takes a village. It takes humans working together to make a difference, one conversation at a time.
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 ONLINE
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 10am – 12:30pm in Jakarta & Hanoi | 11am – 1:30pm in Beijing |12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo
1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30pm Wellington
Tuesday, July 18 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm San Francisco
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Fee: Sliding scale ($5 – $20)
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August Community Cafe - Asia Pacific
2023-08-21 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
AUGUST COMMUNITY CAFE
HOSTING OURSELVES IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
ASIA / PACIFIC
ONLINE
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi
10am – 12:30pm in Jakarta & Hanoi
11am – 1:30pm in Beijing
12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo
1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney
3 – 5:30pm Wellington
Monday, August 21
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm San Francisco
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Fee: Sliding scale ($5 – $20)
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This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series we host every month with and for the World Cafe community and for the larger Central Garden of participatory practices in an Asia Pacific Time Zone.
These Community Cafes give us as a global community a time to “lean in”; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.

August Global Book Cafe
2023-08-25 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
AUGUST GLOBAL BOOK CAFE:

NIGHT ON THE GALACTIC RAILROAD
by Kenji Miyazawa
Saturday, August 26th, 2023
7:00 – 9:30 am Jakarta | 8:00 – 10:30 am Beijing
9:00 am – 11:30 pm Tokyo | 10 am – 12:30 pm in Sydney
12 – 2:30 pm in Wellington, New Zealand
Friday, August 25th 5:00 – 7:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time
ONLINE
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Fee: Sliding Scale $0 – $20
Let us know if the cost is a challenge.
This World Café Live! is for everyone.
(Always Free for Community Table subscribers.
See Community Table calendar for details)
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“Milky Way Station! Milky Way Station!”
We would like to share a ticket to limitless imagination with you, to go on a journey with Giovanni and the ensemble in Kenji Miyazawa’s “Night on the Milky Way Train”, for our second Global Book Café on August 26, 2023 in Asia-Pacific time zones. This masterpiece novella, published posthumously in 1943, is one of Japan’s greatest classics, akin in Japan to Charlotte’s Web in the English-speaking world. We invite you to join this Global Book Café and listen together to each of our “Night on the Milky Way Train” experiences; where that journey took you, and where it inspired you to go next.
Original title in Japanese:
銀河鉄道の夜 “Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru”
Translations in English: “Night on the Milky Way Train” (translated by Roger Pulver); other translated English titles include “Night on the Galactic Railroad” and “The Milky Way Railroad”.
YOUR HOSTS:
This Global Book Cafe is hosted by Tommy Oshima, Grace Hong, Amy Lenzo and the World Cafe Community Foundation.

August Community Cafe - Americas/ Europe Time Zone
2023-08-31 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
AUGUST COMMUNITY CAFE
HOSTING OURSELVES IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Thursday, August 31, 2023
AMERICAS/EUROPE
ONLINE
10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
6:00 – 8:30 pm UK
7:00 – 9:30 pm CET
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Fee: Sliding scale ($5 – $20)
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This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series we host every month with and for the World Cafe community and for the larger Central Garden of participatory practices.
These Community Cafes give us as a global community a time to “lean in”; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.

Beyond Facilitation 2003
2023-09-12 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Beyond Facilitation 2003
FOUR TUESDAYS, SEPT 12 – OCT 3RD, 2003
10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 Eastern Time
7 – 9:30 Central European Time
Join World Cafe Learning Partners Amy Lenzo and Mary Alice Arthur in the next step of their groundbreaking series “Beyond Facilitation”.
This year’s 4-week course will focus on the invaluable Four-Fold Practice pattern that guides all extraordinary hosting. Starting with a thorough understanding of the pattern (featuring Toke Möller, one of the original designers), the next three sessions will explore its application through the lens of our personal lives, our work in the world, and in the systemic collective.
Don’t miss this one! Crucial for all hosts, no matter what method you are using.
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September Americas/Europe Community Cafe
2023-09-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
SEPTEMBER COMMUNITY CAFE
A LEADER IN EVERY CHAIR
Thursday, September 21, 2023
AMERICAS/EUROPE
ONLINE
10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
6:00 – 8:30 pm UK
7:00 – 9:30 pm CET
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Fee: Sliding scale ($5 – $20)
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This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series we host every month with and for the World Cafe community and for the larger Central Garden of participatory practices.
This month’s Community Cafe is a “Learning Cafe”, where we will be joined by participants from the World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals course. It will include reflections on the World Cafe method.
These Community Cafes give us as a global community a time to “lean in”; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.

September Asia Pacific Community Cafe
2023-09-21 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | ONLINE
SEPTEMBER COMMUNITY CAFE
A LEADER IN EVERY CHAIR
A “LEARNING CAFE”
Thursday, September 21, 2023
ASIA / PACIFIC
ONLINE
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi
10am – 12:30pm in Jakarta & Hanoi
11am – 1:30pm in Beijing
12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo
1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney
3 – 5:30pm Wellington
Wednesday, September 20
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm San Francisco
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Fee: Sliding scale ($5 – $20)
More Information & Registration

This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series we host every month with and for the World Cafe community and for the larger Central Garden of participatory practices in an Asia Pacific Time Zone.
This month’s Community Cafe is a “Learning Cafe”, where we will be joined by participants from the World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals course. It will include reflections on the World Cafe method.
These Community Cafes give us as a global community a time to “lean in”; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.

Americas-Europe Community Cafe
2023-10-17 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Sometimes – particularly in the midst of lots of action and turmoil – what is needed is to simply pause. To give yourself time to stop, breathe, and reflect before you take your next step.
This is the opportunity for pause that we invite you to enter with the international community of World Cafe and other participatory practitioners. Wherever you are in the world, there is a Community Cafe you can join – October 17th in the Americas and Europe, October 19th in Asia-Pacific time zones. Come. Take the time to pause and reflect in community.
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Asia-Pacific Community Cafe October
2023-10-19 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online

November Global Book Cafe
2023-11-11 09:00 - 11:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | ONLINE
MOMO
by Michael Ende
Saturday, November 11th, 2023
7 – 9:30 am Jakarta & Bangkok | 8 – 10:30 am Beijing | 9 – 11:30 am Tokyo
11am – 1:30 pm in Sydney | 1 – 3:30 pm in Wellington, New Zealand
Friday, November 10th, 4:00 – 6:30 pm Pacific Standard Time
ONLINE
Fee: Sliding Scale $0 – $20
Let us know if the cost is a challenge.
This World Café Live! is for everyone.
(Free for Community Table subscribers.
See Community Table calendar for details)
“Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”
This time we would like to invite you to journey with another classic, Michael Ende’s fantasy novel, Momo, for our third Global Book Café on November 11, 2023 in Asia-Pacific time zones.
“Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.”
Original title in German:
“Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte”
This Global Book Cafe is hosted by Tommy Oshima, Grace Hong, and the World Café Community Foundation.

Community Cafe Americas-Europe Nov 2023
2023-11-16 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
I shall stand for love, even with a broken soul, even with a heavy heart.
These words from a poem by Dorothy Oger have been with us as we were designing this month’s Community Cafes.
Standing for love can mean so many different things: caring for someone or for something; standing for our values; loving the Earth and making sustainable choices; witnessing others; showing up even when times are tough; and so much more. Standing for love often is linked to compassion, curiosity and courage.
We want to take time in our Community Cafes this month to explore this field of “Standing for Love”.
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Asia Pacific November Community Cafe
2023-11-21 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | ONLINE
Tuesday, November 21st
TOPIC: TBD
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 10 am – 12:30 pm Jakarta / 10 am – 12:30 pm Bangkok | 11am – 1:30 pm in Beijing | 12 – 2:30 pm in Tokyo | 2 – 4:30 pm in Sydney | 4 – 6:30pm Wellington
Wherever you are in the world, there is a Community Cafe you can join each month. Take the time to pause and reflect with others in the Asia-Pacific time zone this month on Tuesday, November 21st.

Paying Attention: What Matters Now
2023-12-14 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Americas-Europe Community Cafe December 2023
Looking at the image, what draws your attention? The image as a whole? The little tentacles on the outside? The spaces where colors are mingling and are creating new colors? The tiny yellow spot in the orange area? Or are you wondering why this image was chosen? Each of us pays attention in a unique way, and each of us pays attention to unique elements – even when we look at the same image or find ourselves in similar contexts.
This month, we are inviting our global community to pay attention. Pay attention to how we pay attention. Pay attention to what happens in our bodies and hearts and minds. Pay attention to our senses. We are creating time and space for reflection. What is needed for us to be with what is and to imagine what might emerge?
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Paying Attention: What Matters Now
2023-12-19 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
Asia Pacific Community Cafe
10am – 12:30pm Jakarta | 11am – 1:30 pm in Beijing | 12 – 2:30 pm in Tokyo | 2 – 4:30 pm in Sydney
Looking at the image, what draws your attention? The image as a whole? The little tentacles on the outside? The spaces where colors are mingling and are creating new colors? The tiny yellow spot in the orange area? Or are you wondering why this image was chosen? Each of us pays attention in a unique way, and each of us pays attention to unique elements – even when we look at the same image or find ourselves in similar contexts.
This month, we are inviting our global community to pay attention. Pay attention to how we pay attention. Pay attention to what happens in our bodies and hearts and minds. Pay attention to our senses. We are creating time and space for reflection. What is needed for us to be with what is and to imagine what might emerge?
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Deepen Your Practice
2024-01-01 - 2024-12-31 | ONLINE
A Year of Community Cafes
Join us on this very special journey. Sign up now for access to the entire series of 2024 Community Cafes, each focused on gaining a deeper understanding of a World Cafe Design Principle.
Using the seven World Cafe design principles as our guide, the monthly Community World Cafes throughout 2024 will explore how these design principles not only form the ground for the World Cafe format but how they can be fruitfully applied to our lives and work more generally, as well.
If you are a host of World Cafe or other participatory practice, this will be an invaluable opportunity to assimilate the World Cafe design principles at a deep level. And there will also be real value for anyone who wants to see how applying the World Cafe principles can enhance every aspect of your life.
Registration for the full year includes participation in all the 2024 real-time online Community Cafes, as well as access to resources and key information for any you have to miss.
Free for Community Table Subscribers.
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Community Cafe Americas-Europe Jan 25
2024-01-25 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Deepening Our Practice
Our theme for the Community Cafes for 2024 is “Deepening our practice”. We will be using the World Cafe Design Principles as our guiding North Star. Each month, we will deepen our inquiry into one of the design principles.
This first Community Cafe of 2024 will be a shared inquiry into our year theme: exploring – expanding – innovating – evolving.
These Community Cafes give us as a global community a time to “lean in”; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.

Community Cafe Asia-Pacific
2024-01-25 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online

Community Cafe Americas-Europe February 2024
2024-02-22 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Our theme for the 2024 year of Community Cafes is “Deepening our Practice”. We will be using the World Cafe Design Principles as our guiding North Star, and each month, we will deepen our inquiry into one of the design principles.
Join us in conversations about the first World Cafe design principle: Clarifying the Context. What are elements “around” and “beyond” – elements that might affect the immediate situation? What is the story “beneath the story”? What might be the “quest behind the question”?
Whether you are a long-time practitioner of World Cafe or other participatory practices – or you are simply curious to experience a World Cafe – or you are drawn in by the topic – you are VERY welcome.
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Community Cafe Asia-Pacific February 2024
2024-02-22 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
Our theme for the 2024 year of Community Cafes is “Deepening our Practice”. We will be using the World Cafe Design Principles as our guiding North Star, and each month, we will deepen our inquiry into one of the design principles.
Join us in conversations about the first World Cafe design principle: Clarifying the Context. What are elements “around” and “beyond” – elements that might affect the immediate situation? What is the story “beneath the story”? What might be the “quest behind the question”?
Whether you are a long-time practitioner of World Cafe or other participatory practices – or you are simply curious to experience a World Cafe – or you are drawn in by the topic – you are VERY welcome.
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Americas - Europe Community Cafe March
2024-03-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Our theme for the 2024 year of Community Cafes is “Deepening our Practice”. We will be using the World Cafe Design Principles as our guiding North Star, and each month, we will deepen our inquiry into one of the design principles.
We invite you to join us for a Community Cafe where we will be spending time in conversation about creating hospitable space. Sharing our own experiences as participants and as hosts: what makes us feel invited and welcome?
Creating hospitable space is an intentional process, and it requires us to dive deeper, into context, culture, habits, and preferences. We are looking forward to hearing stories and to digging a little deeper into the qualities and elements of creating a space that welcomes all.
Whether you are a practitioner of World Cafe and/or another participatory practice, you’re simply curious to experience a World Cafe – or you are drawn in by the topic – you are VERY welcome.
Please check the event-time in your own timezone – we are starting at 10 am Pacific Daylight Saving Time | 6 pm Central European Time (an hour earlier than usual because Europe has not switched to Daylight Saving Time yet).
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Asia-Pacific Community Cafe March
2024-03-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
We invite you to join us for a Community Cafe where we will be spending time in conversation about creating hospitable space. Sharing our own experiences as participants and as hosts: what makes us feel invited and welcome?
Creating hospitable space is an intentional process, and it requires us to dive deeper, into context, culture, habits, and preferences. We are looking forward to hearing stories and to digging a little deeper into the qualities and elements of creating a space that welcomes all.
Whether you are a practitioner of World Cafe and/or another participatory practice, you’re simply curious to experience a World Cafe – or you are drawn in by the topic – you are VERY welcome.
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Americas-Europe Community Cafe April
2024-04-18 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Our theme for the 2024 year of Community Cafes is “Deepening our Practice”. We will be using the World Cafe Design Principles as our guiding North Star, and each month, we will deepen our inquiry into one of the design principles.
“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke’s invitation to live and to love questions has been with us as we are designing this month’s Community Cafes – focusing on the third World Cafe Design Principle: Exploring Questions that Matter.
We invite you to join us for a Community Cafe where we will be spending time in conversation about questions that matter. Sharing our own experiences as participants, as hosts, as human beings: what are questions that have shifted our perspective, maybe even changed our life? We’ll be exploring questions that we were asked – and questions we asked others. We are looking forward to hearing your stories and to digging a little deeper into the qualities and elements of powerful questions.
Whether you are a long-time practitioner of World Cafe or other participatory practices – or you are simply curious to experience a World Cafe – or you are drawn in by the topic – you are VERY welcome.
These Community Cafes give us as a global community a time to “lean in”; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.
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Asia-Pacific Community Cafe April
2024-04-18 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
Our theme for the 2024 year of Community Cafes is “Deepening our Practice”. We will be using the World Cafe Design Principles as our guiding North Star, and each month, we will deepen our inquiry into one of the design principles.
The April Community Cafe will be a shared inquiry into personal applications of the third World Cafe design principle: “Explore Questions that Matter”. Look for more information soon.
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Building a Connected Culture: Breaking Silos–Navigating Transitions: A World Cafe Live!
2024-04-25 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Building a Connected Culture: Breaking Silos–Navigating Transitions: A World Cafe Live!

April 25, 2024
10am – 12:30 Pacific Time
1 – 3:30pm Eastern Time
REGISTER NOW
Greetings, Thought Leaders!
We are excited to extend an invitation to you for our upcoming World Cafe Live! Event. We will delve into the transformative conversation of “Building a Connected Culture: Breaking Silos–Navigating Transitions.” You will draw on a community dedicated to dynamic and interactive exploration of what connections might be possible across industries, communities, and educational sectors.
Save the date: Wednesday, April 25, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
Why Building a Connected Culture?
In a world of possibilities, it is crucial to break down silos and cultivate a connected culture that spans business, education, and communities. This World Cafe Live! dialogue is a chance for us to explore innovation and what it means to be connected and break down siloed barriers. We believe that the synergy of diverse perspectives can lead to groundbreaking solutions and ignite a positive ripple effect in our interconnected world.
What to Expect:
Join us for thought-provoking conversation in community and the opportunity to connect with diverse perspectives and shared experience.

Americas-Europe Community Cafe May
2024-05-23 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Our theme for the 2024 year of Community Cafes is “Deepening our Practice”. We will be using the World Cafe Design Principles as our guiding North Star, and each month, we will deepen our inquiry into one of the design principles.
The May Community Cafe will be a shared inquiry into personal applications of the fourth World Cafe design principle: “Encourage Everyone’s Contribution”.
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Asia-Pacific Community Cafe May
2024-05-23 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
