WE WARMLY INVITE YOU TO JOIN THE COMMUNITY TABLE!
We’ve priced the subscription to be accessible, so if you can afford the full cost, especially if you derive income from the use of World Cafe, we welcome your support.
If you can afford to give more, please click the link below and share via a one-time or on-going contribution. Your generosity creates an opportunity for people to be with us who could not otherwise afford it. It also liberates creativity and provides more options as we move forward together. Thank you!
PLEASE NOTE:
YOUR ANNUAL OR MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
IS A RECURRING PAYMENT
The Community Table: Benefits
Subscribing to the Community Table brings many benefits besides the knowledge that your subscription is a sustaining contribution to the economic stability and ongoing development of the World Cafe Community Foundation.
Being a subscriber makes it possible for the World Cafe to continue providing support and vital resources for the international community of World Cafe practitioners as well as increase our capacity to step up to the unique challenges and opportunities of today’s world.
Perhaps most significantly, your contributions will allow us to bring in a dedicated Community Weaver whose presence in our community will make all kinds of wonderful things possible.
The Community Table is constantly growing and new benefits will continue to emerge and evolve with us, but here is what else a subscription to the Community Table currently offers:
An online “home” around the Community Table
Included in your Community Table Subscription
A well-hosted “Central Garden” where everyone in the international communities of World Cafe and other participatory practitioners is included and made welcome.
A newly designed, accessible, hosted online space dedicated to shared resources, inspiration, collective learning, and meaningful engagement.
Enhanced, timely support for your questions
Opportunities for co-creation and collaboration
Active engagement with other perspectives and cultures
Increased exposure to global offerings via a shared Community Calendar
Enhanced World Cafe Learning Programs
Paid public programs made available to Community Table subscribers at a 30% discount
After two decades of development and global applications across multiple languages, cultures, and contexts, the World Cafe is extending our Signature Learning Programs by adding complementary, focused modules to:
Strengthen and deepen the integration and application of core elements of World Cafe practice
Build upon years of collective learning from our current exemplary learning programs
Address areas of ambivalence that may have emerged through the successful growth and generous dissemination of The World Café method.
Practice the spirit of inclusivity and capacity-building central to our DNA
To this purpose, we will be co-creating a suite of new online learning programs – both real-time and evergreen – with co-founders and other senior practitioners with specific expertise. Learning Programs will be offered for a wide range of practitioner experience.
See the World Cafe Signature Learning Programs for current and upcoming programming.
Partnerships
As part of our emerging new vision, we want to strengthen our relationships with others in the Central Garden, and partner with them in practical and meaningful ways. One such way is by collaborating with others who are offering learning programs.
The World Cafe is working with a select group of partners who have developed important relevant learning programs, making their programming available to Community Table subscribers at the same 30% discount offered on our own programs. The cross-fertilization of new knowledge available through these partner learning programs will enhance and deepen mutual understanding and help cultivate and nourish the soil for collaboration in the Central Garden.
One such partner is Beehive Productions – Beehive is already producing programs for the Central Garden of participatory practitioners, and by partnering with them the Community Table will have access to their excellent programming at a significant discount.
New Learning Programs in Development
The following programs are currently in development and will be available in 2020 & beyond
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- New World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals Signature Learning Programs (for different regions, cultures, & languages)
- Evergreen World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals courses in both English and Spanish. Other translations to follow.
- Hosting Online (for experienced hosts who want to learn to host World Cafe, Open Space, Circle, etc. in an online format)
- Strategic Applications for World Cafe (new directions for business-oriented facilitators)
- Art of Hosting Fundamentals like the Four-Fold Practice & Eight Breaths of Process Architecture
- World Cafe as Research – what changes are needed and what are the issues when using World Cafe and other participatory processes in research contexts?
- Bridging the Divide: Working within Existing Social Systems for Positive Change
- New World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals Signature Learning Programs (for different regions, cultures, & languages)
Live Public Online Events
World Cafe Live!
Paid public offers, available free of charge to Community Table subscribers
The opportunity to attend and/or co-host specially curated and co-hosted public online World Cafes and other participatory programs on Key Topics (e.g. Climate Change, Power & Privilege, Permaculture, An Appreciative Approach, Education, Health, Research, Political Divisions, etc.)
Monthly Online Community World Cafes
Public online programs – Paid by donation; available free of charge to Community Table subscribers
PLUS: Free Learning & Mentoring opportunities offered exclusively to qualified Community Table subscribers
Increased financial sustainability will stabilize our ability to continue offering these important monthly opportunities for the international community to experience World Cafe, meet each other and build relationships, and engage in conversation about what is really important, now. Your subscription fees will also allow us to bring in regular graphic recorders to harvest the conversation and develop a mentoring and learning experience for new hosts to practice their hosting skills within a committed and well-designed program.
More Engagement & Support
- Free Office Hours with co-founders & senior World Cafe hosts: Bring your questions, challenges, insights & requests!
- 20% Discount on all World Cafe-produced e-publications
- Discounted Professional Consulting and World Cafe Services to support you in presenting your best World Cafe professional work
What’s Coming, Down the Road…
New World Cafe e-Publications
With funding, we can continue to update and develop new e-books on topics of relevance to all participatory hosts, e.g. World Cafe as Research, Hosting Diversity & Inclusion, Harvesting for Different Purposes
Regular Storytelling Circles
Hosted real-time opportunities to harvest our collective learning by sharing and listening to stories of success and challenge (which will be recorded and circulated).