Day 2: Afternoon

Coming into the afternoon session of day two, the weaving between Tom Hurley and Sharon Eakes started to thread together the themes of emerging patterns. Tom talked about the challenge of holding the moment of stillness – presencing – in a reality that is...

Day 2: Conversation Space

The Conversation Space was jumping as the group began to integrate some of the powerful concepts from Otto Scharmer’s talk. Gabriel Shirley shared an insight he had about the moment of ‘now’ being not a quick blip in a continuum between past and future, as he had...

Day One: Evening

Monday evening we had a dinner with some special guests from Asia to honor the publication of the new Japanese and Taiwanese translations of the World Café book. There were five members of the Japanese translation team, including Daisuke Kawaguchi, who had been my...

Day 1: Afternoon

In the afternoon weaving Bard Hurley gave us a metaphor for what he sensed “in the field”, a beautiful image from James Mitchner about a slow accumulation, a melding of meaning like individual droplets of dew gathering together to create a river. We were invited to...

Day 1: Conversation Space

After the first keynote by Debra Meyerson, the conference moved into the morning’s concurrent sessions. This year we had arranged to have a conversation space available throughout the conference that would be hosted during the scheduled morning break-out sessions and...