What if?

by | May 4, 2007 | Dresden

During the harvesting of the Inviting Innovation process, I had a wonderful experience of the 4th Principle of the World Café: ‘Encourage Everyone’s Contribution’, which responds to the question, "What if your contribution is a key...

Confusion to yourself

by | May 4, 2007 | Dresden

Would you expect a World Cafe on innovation to result in a table deciding that blankness and confusion need to be present to be innovative? Well, that’s just what happened. Oh, by the way….other ideas were also mentioned: Take the whole personTime &...

Peace Café

by | May 3, 2007 | Dresden

The first World Café of the first day, addressing Peace & Forgiveness, was aptly housed in the crypt of the newly restored Frauenkirche, itself a powerfully vibrant example of peace and reconciliation. This photograph by the extremely talented Ulrich Soeder...

On the Train

by | May 3, 2007 | Dresden

On the train to Dresden yesterday I asked a gentleman sitting near me for directions and it turned out that he too was coming to the World Café! Reinhard Kuchenmüller, for that was his name, is a visual facilitator coming in from Tuscany to facilitate today’s...