The World Cafe

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
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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”.
More Information and Registration

Asia-Pacific Community Cafe May
2024-05-23 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online

Americas-Europe Community Cafe June 2024
2024-06-20 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.
Connecting diverse perspectives means bringing together viewpoints, experiences, and insights from individuals or groups with different backgrounds, cultures, disciplines, and experiences. World Cafe provides the opportunity to connect diverse perspectives in different ways – through conversations in each small group, through moving to new tables, through sharing insights during the harvest.
Cross-pollination is one of the beautiful gifts that World Cafe has brought to the world. We recognize and value the richness that different viewpoints bring to the table and use that diversity to enhance understanding and innovation.
Imagine what might happen if you look through the prism from the right side or from the left. What might happen if you take it in your hand and move it? What are the colors of your lenses?
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Asia-Pacific Community Cafe June 2024
2024-06-20 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online

Americas-Europe Community Cafe July
2024-07-18 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.
Listening together for patterns and Insights (the sixth World Cafe Design Principle) allows the group to identify common themes, insights, and ideas that emerge from the conversations. From there, we can harness the collective intelligence of the group and create a shared understanding that drives collaborative action.
The Community Cafes are for everyone – whether you are a practitioner of World Cafe and/or another participatory practice, drawn in by the topic, or simply curious to experience a World Cafe – please join us.
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Asia-Pacific Community Cafe July
2024-07-18 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online

2024 World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals
2024-09-01 09:00 - 2024-09-02 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
2024 WORLD CAFE HOSTING FUNDAMENTALS
SUNDAYS, SEPT 1 – OCT 27TH, 2003
9 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
12 – 2:30 Eastern Time
6 – 8:30 Central European Time
$850.00
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT 20% off before AUGUST 11TH
Groups of 3 or more & Community Table Discounts (30% off) also apply
The 2024 offering of this iconic 8-week course builds on everything we’ve learned in almost two decades of working together in this way each year. Each cohort builds on the accumulated wisdom of the last, and we are very excited to bring that knowledge to bear as we continue to build the depth and breadth of our practice together.
Reinforcing the fundamentals of this exemplary method in our curriculum, we embody the basic understandings that ground the unique contribution World Cafe can make – in your hands, for your own contexts.
Join us!
REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION

Community Cafe Americas-Europe
2024-09-19 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
A Leader in Every Chair
September 19 | 10 am San Francisco | 1 pm New York | 7 pm Vienna
We invite you to join us in an inquiry: What does shared leadership mean to each of us? How might acknowledging a leader in every chair change our conversations, our actions, our organizations? If we all hold shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole, how does this affect the outcomes of our meetings and shift the dynamics in the room?
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.
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Americas-Europe Community Cafe
2024-10-24 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Sharing Collective Discoveries
October 24 | 10 am San Francisco | 1 pm New York | 7 pm Vienna
We will focus on the seventh World Cafe Design Principle: Sharing Collective Discoveries.
Sensing the whole, together – goes far beyond sharing or managing knowledge. As we cross-pollinate ideas and insights, we become wiser together. In a World Cafe, we harvest the tangible and the intangible, the personal and the collective. We make meaning of what is emerging, together.
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Asia-Pacific Community Cafe
2024-10-24 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
Sharing Collective Discoveries
October 24 | 10am – 12:30pm Jakarta | 11am – 1:30 pm in Beijing | 12 – 2:30 pm in Tokyo | 2 – 4:30 pm in Sydney
We will focus on the seventh World Cafe Design Principle: Sharing Collective Discoveries.
Sensing the whole, together – goes far beyond sharing or managing knowledge. As we cross-pollinate ideas and insights, we become wiser together. In a World Cafe, we harvest the tangible and the intangible, the personal and the collective. We make meaning of what is emerging, together.
More Information and Registration

January 2025 Community Cafe - Americas & European Time Zones
2025-01-07 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Thu, Jan 23, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM US Pacific Time | 7 = 9:30 Central European Time
Sliding Scale $5 – $20
FREE FOR COMMUNITY TABLE SUBSCRIBERS
(See the Community Table calendar for discount code)
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Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”.
In January, we’ll take time to reflect on our own experiences with the phases of the diamond model that Sam Kaner introduced.
This is our first Community Cafe in the 2025 series. We are looking forward to bringing insights together!
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.
For our Community Cafes 2025, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our annual companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
The Breaths of Design came from an Art of Hosting expansion on the work of Sam Kaner – a great example of the Central Garden Community at work. Drawing on this pattern, we’ll take the time – one “breath” per month – to explore this pattern together and go deeper to find the value it offers. This is a time for asking questions and for sharing insights. We’ll learn from and with each other, as we focus on our own experiences and immersion in the pattern.
We don’t assume that Community Cafe participants are familiar with the Breaths of Design or Sam Kaner’s work, and will make sure that each Community Cafe will be accessible to all – no matter your previous experience or knowledge.
The Breaths of Design originated in the Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and in many years of evolution in the field of the Art of Hosting. Some of you might know them as the “5 Breaths” or the “8 Breaths”, depending on the context and the time of your first encounter with this concept.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)

January 2025 Community Cafe - Asia Pacific Time Zones
2025-01-23 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Thursday, January 23, 2025
10am – 12:30pm Jakarta | 11am – 1:30 pm in Beijing | 12 – 2:30 pm in Tokyo | 2 – 4:30 pm in Sydney
Sliding Scale $5 – $20
FREE FOR COMMUNITY TABLE SUBSCRIBERS
(See the Community Table calendar for discount code)
REGISTER NOW
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”.
In January, we’ll take time to reflect on our own experiences with the phases of the diamond model that Sam Kaner introduced.
This is our first Community Cafe in the 2025 series. We are looking forward to bringing insights together!
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.
For our Community Cafes 2025, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our annual companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
The Breaths of Design came from an Art of Hosting expansion on the work of Sam Kaner – a great example of the Central Garden Community at work. Drawing on this pattern, we’ll take the time – one “breath” per month – to explore this pattern together and go deeper to find the value it offers. This is a time for asking questions and for sharing insights. We’ll learn from and with each other, as we focus on our own experiences and immersion in the pattern.
We don’t assume that Community Cafe participants are familiar with the Breaths of Design or Sam Kaner’s work, and will make sure that each Community Cafe will be accessible to all – no matter your previous experience or knowledge.
The Breaths of Design originated in the Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and in many years of evolution in the field of the Art of Hosting. Some of you might know them as the “5 Breaths” or the “8 Breaths”, depending on the context and the time of your first encounter with this concept.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)

2025 Community World Cafes Program
2025-01-23 10:00 - 2025-11-18 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
This year we are offering a series of Community Cafes with an overarching topic for the full year: Breaths of Design
Over the next year we are inviting you to join us on a very special journey. Using the ideas behind the breaths of process design and Sam Kaner’s Diamond of Participation as our guide, the 2025 monthly Community World Cafes will explore how the Breaths of Design not only form the ground for participatory practices but 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 understand the processes behind the practices.
2025 Schedule

JAN 23 | FEB 25 | MARCH 27 | APRIL 22 | MAY 22 | JUNE 24 | JULY 24 | AUG OFF | SEPT 16 | OCT 23 | NOV 18 | DEC OFF
Only $50 for the entire 2025 series
(Free to subscribers of the Community Table)
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If You Can’t Make Every Community Cafe …
Not to worry! By registering for all of the 2025 Community World Cafes,
you will have access to material from each month’s theme, whether you are present for it or not.
Your Registration to the 2025 Series Includes:

Access to all real-time Community Cafes in 2025
Access to Recordings, Questions & Graphic Recordings
(FROM BOTH COMMUNITY CAFES IN THE AMERICAS/EUROPE & ASIA PACIFIC TIME ZONES)

Enjoy recordings of the creative introduction to the topic and presentation of the visual harvest
for each month’s Community World Cafe, copies of the questions used, & graphic recordings.

Americas-Europe Community Cafe March 2025
2025-03-27 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”. In March, we’ll take time to reflect on our own experiences with the second Breath: Clarify Purpose. We are looking forward to bringing insights together!
For our Community Cafes 2025, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our annual companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
The Breaths of Design came from an Art of Hosting expansion on the work of Sam Kaner – a great example of the Central Garden Community at work. Drawing on this pattern, we’ll take the time – one “breath” per month – to explore this pattern together and go deeper to find the value it offers. This is a time for asking questions and for sharing insights. We’ll learn from and with each other, as we focus on our own experiences and immersion in the pattern.
We don’t assume that Community Cafe participants are familiar with the Breaths of Design or Sam Kaner’s work, and we will make sure that each Community Cafe will be accessible to all – no matter your previous experience or knowledge.
The Breaths of Design originated in the Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and in many years of evolution in the field of the Art of Hosting. Some of you might know them as the “5 Breaths” or the “8 Breaths”, depending on the context and the time of your first encounter with this concept.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)

Asia-Pacific Community Cafe
2025-03-27 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online

Community Cafe April - Americas-Europe
2025-04-22 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”. In April, we’ll take time to reflect on our own experiences with the third Breath: Invite & Design. We are looking forward to bringing insights together!
For our Community Cafes 2025, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our annual companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
The Breaths of Design came from an Art of Hosting expansion on the work of Sam Kaner – a great example of the Central Garden Community at work. Drawing on this pattern, we’ll take the time – one “breath” per month – to explore this pattern together and go deeper to find the value it offers. This is a time for asking questions and for sharing insights. We’ll learn from and with each other, as we focus on our own experiences and immersion in the pattern.
We don’t assume that Community Cafe participants are familiar with the Breaths of Design or Sam Kaner’s work, and we will make sure that each Community Cafe will be accessible to all – no matter your previous experience or knowledge.
The Breaths of Design originated in the Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and in many years of evolution in the field of the Art of Hosting. Some of you might know them as the “5 Breaths” or the “8 Breaths”, depending on the context and the time of your first encounter with this concept.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)
Register here

Community Cafe April 2025 - Asia-Pacific
2025-04-22 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | ONLINE

Americas-Europe Community Cafe May 2025
2025-05-22 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”. In May, we’ll take time to reflect on our own experiences with the fourth Breath: Meet. We are looking forward to bringing insights together!
For our Community Cafes 2025, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our annual companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
The Breaths of Design came from an Art of Hosting expansion on the work of Sam Kaner – a great example of the Central Garden Community at work. Drawing on this pattern, we’ll take the time – one “breath” per month – to explore this pattern together and go deeper to find the value it offers. This is a time for asking questions and for sharing insights. We’ll learn from and with each other, as we focus on our own experiences and immersion in the pattern.
We don’t assume that Community Cafe participants are familiar with the Breaths of Design or Sam Kaner’s work, and we will make sure that each Community Cafe will be accessible to all – no matter your previous experience or knowledge.
The Breaths of Design originated in the Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and in many years of evolution in the field of the Art of Hosting. Some of you might know them as the “5 Breaths” or the “8 Breaths”, depending on the context and the time of your first encounter with this concept.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)
Register here

Asia-Pacific Community Cafe May 2025
2025-05-31 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | Online
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”. In April, we’ll take time to reflect on our own experiences with the fourth Breath: Meet. We are looking forward to bringing insights together!
For our Community Cafes 2025, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our annual companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
The Breaths of Design came from an Art of Hosting expansion on the work of Sam Kaner – a great example of the Central Garden Community at work. Drawing on this pattern, we’ll take the time – one “breath” per month – to explore this pattern together and go deeper to find the value it offers. This is a time for asking questions and for sharing insights. We’ll learn from and with each other, as we focus on our own experiences and immersion in the pattern.
We don’t assume that Community Cafe participants are familiar with the Breaths of Design or Sam Kaner’s work, and we will make sure that each Community Cafe will be accessible to all – no matter your previous experience or knowledge.
The Breaths of Design originated in the Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and in many years of evolution in the field of the Art of Hosting. Some of you might know them as the “5 Breaths” or the “8 Breaths”, depending on the context and the time of your first encounter with this concept.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)
Register here

JUNE COMMUNITY CAFE in the Americas & Europe Time Zone
2025-06-24 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”. In June, we’ll take time to reflect on our own experiences with the fifth Breath: Harvest. We are looking forward to bringing insights together!
For our Community Cafes 2025, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our annual companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
The Breaths of Design came from an Art of Hosting expansion on the work of Sam Kaner – a great example of the Central Garden community at work. Drawing on this pattern, we’ll take the time – one “breath” per month – to explore this pattern together and go deeper to find the value it offers. This is a time for asking questions and for sharing insights. We’ll learn from and with each other, as we focus on our own experiences and immersion in the pattern.
We don’t assume that Community Cafe participants are familiar with the Breaths of Design or Sam Kaner’s work, and we will make sure that each Community Cafe will be accessible to all – no matter your previous experience or knowledge.
The Breaths of Design originated in the Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making from Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making and in many years of evolution in the field of the Art of Hosting. Some of you might know them as the “5 Breaths” or the “8 Breaths”, depending on the context and the time of your first encounter with this concept.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)
REGISTER HERE

JUNE COMMUNITY CAFE in the Asia Pacific Time Zone
2025-06-26 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | ONLINE

Asia-Pacific Community Cafe July 2025
2025-07-15 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | ONLINE
July Community Cafe
Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
Topic: ACT!
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 10 am – 12:30 pm Jakarta / Bangkok | 11am – 1:30 pm in Beijing | 12 – 2:30 pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30 pm Wellington
Cost: $0 – 20
(Community Table Members use the discount code on the Community Table calendar)
REGISTER HERE
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”. In July, Armed with the strategic insights we gained last month in our explorations of the 5th breath (Harvest), this month we will take those insights out into our wider systems and put them into practice, focusing on the 6th Breath: ACT, as we continue to notice what wants / needs to happen now.
Throughout the 2025 Community Cafes, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
Read more about the Breaths of Design in the Registration pages.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)

Americas-Europe Community Cafe July 2025
2025-07-24 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
July Community Cafe
Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Topic: ACT!

10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time

Cost: $0 – 20
(Community Table Members use the discount code on the Community Table calendar for free access)
REGISTER HERE
Our theme for the 2025 year of Community Cafes is “Breaths of Design”. In July, armed with the strategic insights we gained last month in our explorations of the 5th breath (Harvest), we will take those insights out into our wider systems and put them into practice, focusing on the 6th Breath: ACT, as we continue to notice what wants / needs to happen now.
Throughout the 2025 Community Cafes, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
Read more about the Breaths of Design in the Registration pages.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, topic TBD) – Reflect and Learn (October) – Looking back on 2025 (November)

Americas Europe Community Cafe September 2025
2025-09-16 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
September “Learning Cafe”
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Topic: A Leader in Every Chair

10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time

Cost: $0 – 20
(Community Table Members use the discount code on the Community Table calendar for free access)
REGISTER HERE
This is a special “Learning Cafe” held every September as part of the World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals course. The theme for this year’s Learning Cafe is A Leader in Every Chair.
Join us for an inside look on what makes the World Cafe tick!
Throughout the 2025 Community Cafes, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
Read more about the whole Breaths of Design series here in the Calendar – where you can register for it and it will include this Cafe.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, A Leader in Every Chair) – TBD (October) Reflect and Learn on the 8 Breaths of 2025 (November)

Asia Pacific September 2025 "Learning Cafe"
2025-09-16 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | ONLINE
September “Learning Cafe”
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Topic: A Leader in Every Chair

8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 10 am – 12:30 pm Jakarta / Bangkok | 11am – 1:30 pm in Beijing | 12 – 2:30 pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30 pm Wellington
Cost: $0 – 20
(Community Table Members use the discount code on the Community Table calendar for free access)
REGISTER HERE
This is a special “Learning Cafe” held every September as part of the World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals course. The theme for this year’s Learning Cafe is A Leader in Every Chair.
Join us for an inside look on what makes the World Cafe tick!
Throughout the 2025 Community Cafes, we invite you on a journey with the “Breaths of Design” as our companion. The Breaths of Design are another lens, another approach to designing participatory gatherings, to preparing conversations, taking action on important topics and reflecting on the process.
Read more about the whole Breaths of Design series here in the Calendar – where you can register for it and it will include this Cafe.
Here is a brief overview of the year’s focus: Introduction to Breaths of Design (January) – Feel the Need and Call (February) – Clarify Purpose (March) – Invite and Design (April) – Meet (May) – Harvest (June) – Act (July) – Learning Cafe (September, A Leader in Every Chair) – TBD (October) Reflect and Learn on the 8 Breaths of 2025 (November)

2025 World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals
2025-09-27 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
2025 WORLD CAFE HOSTING FUNDAMENTALS
SATURDAYS, SEPT 27TH – NOV 22ND, 2025
10 – 12:30 am Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
$850.00
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT 20% off before SEPT 10TH
Groups of 3 or more & Community Table Discounts (30% off) also apply
The 2025 offering of this iconic 8-week course builds on everything we’ve learned over two decades of working together in this way each year. Every year’s cohort builds on the accumulated wisdom of the last, and we are very excited to bring that knowledge to bear as we continue to build the depth and breadth of our practice together.
Reinforcing the fundamentals of this exemplary method in our curriculum, we embody the basic understandings that ground the unique contribution World Cafe can make – in your hands, for your own contexts.
Join us!
REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION

LEARNING PARTNER: ORIGIN & EVOLUTION STORIES
2025-10-07 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
In collaboration with World Cafe Learning Partner Beehive Productions.
90 Minutes, on the first Tuesday of every month

October 7th, 2025

FEATURING HEATHER PLATT ON “HOLDING SPACE”

Heather Plett has been instrumental in creating awareness and insights into the art of holding space: holding space for others, for ourselves and for what is needed in these times.

In this call, we will explore how this started for her, how it has evolved over the years and what Heather is seeing about this practice today.

For More Information and Registration

30% off for Community Table Members

Hosted by Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen and Mary Alice Arthur

LEARNING PARTNER: Beyond Facilitation 2025
2025-10-27 11:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
JOIN World Cafe Learning Partner Amy Lenzo and Mary Alice Arthur in
BEYOND FACILITATION 2025
MONDAYS, OCTOBER 27TH – NOV 11TH
There are so many things changing right at the moment, that it can feel we are continually standing on the edge of the unknown. In many places the mood is fearful, conflictual or depressed. Systems, businesses and people are struggling.
We’ve been keeping an eye on some of our close colleagues who are pioneering how to work at the edges and at the intersection of CHAOS and CHAMOS — which is a Greek word for fundamental breakdown. We want to hear and harvest their stories to give us both courage and new perspectives about how to host in these challenging times.
Sharing and harvesting stories of working with challenge and pioneering at the edges is a great practice for times like these.
We will be using the Collective Story Harvest method — which Mary Alice helped create — to work with these stories and to give you a powerful methodology for engaging and involving the people and systems you work with so they can survive and thrive.
It’s time to do things differently. Come and learn from practitioners working at the edge and see how our stories and applied story work can provide a place where we can take shelter from the storm and find understanding and strength with each other. This is how to find the future in the present.
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