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Every Friday Night
World Cafe at Starbucks
St Petersburg, Florida
December 6th, 8th, & 9th
World Café Signature
Learning Program-
Level One
Online
Dec 8th
Multi-Generational Cafe on the Occupy Movement
Oakland, CA
December 10
Conversational Leadership: Methods for Engaging Collective Intelligence
Sonoma State, California
January 4th
Encontro Intergeneracional
(in Portuguese)
Sao Paulo, Brasil
January 6th, 9th, & 11th
World Café Signature
Learning Program-
Level One
Online
January 12th
3rd European Salon
nr Dresden, Germany
February 15th, 17th, & 19th
World Café Signature
Learning Program-
Level One
Online
March 1st
World Café Signature
Learning Program -
Level Two
TBA
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Details on all these events & more on the World Café Community Calendar.
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Today's Quote
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"Gratitude grows when it's given. Plant a seed today."
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World Café Harvest Fund Drive an Overwhelming Success!!
 We're celebrating Thanksgiving Day in America this month and it feels like the perfect time to express our deep gratitude for the great rally of support we received during our Harvest Fund Drive.
Here's a note from one contributor whose words were echoed by so many of you (click here to hear the others):
"The World Cafe gives me hope at this time in history when as a people we are trying anew to find our way. I sense the conscious and unconscious yearning all around me for conversations that matter. Making this contribution is one way I can encourage more conversation in the world, and it is a small way in which I can continue to repay all of the gifts I have received from the World Cafe community.
~ Heather Cummings
YES, because of you we did indeed meet our goal - in fact, amazingly, we almost doubled it! In three short weeks people around the world stepped up to say, in at least a hundred different ways, "Yes! We see you, we appreciate you and we value the World Café Community Foundation". To our small core team this overwhelmingly positive response was a huge gift of encouragement and recognition. Thank you you so much!
Click here for a full list of contributors.
For the last sixteen years, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, our co-founders, have poured their passion, love, attention, wisdom, time and personal resources into keeping this hub called The World Café Community Foundation alive and moving forward. Only a few knew what it truly took for them to keep a rapidly expanding and evolving community of practitioners together for so many years. In their current role as global ambassadors, Juanita and David are still dedicated to keeping the essence of the World Café movement strong and thriving while having passed on the daily work and
global evolution of the World Café Community Foundation to others.
So now, the rest is up to us.
Your participation and warm support during this Harvest Fund Drive means that we can continue our daily functioning as the hub of the World Café's work in the world for at least another 5 months. It means we can continue to be your central source of World Café information, services, learning, e-materials and global community connection.
The Harvest Fund Drive has served as an initiation and activation of the support necessary to keep us going. But it cannot stop there. Ongoing subscriptions and sustaining contributions from our community membership are fundamental to our resourcing ecology and absolutely key to the Foundation's continued viability and vitality. Leaders who are willing to step up to support us as we do the work of building on the initiatives we have launched recently are critical.
We are pleased and excited to see that pledges for ongoing contributions have already started coming in following in the wake of the Harvest Fund Drive. Thank you so much to the following leaders in our community, starting with our global ambassadors, who have recognized the World Café Community Foundation's ongoing need for support and already pledged regular monthly or annual contributions towards meeting that need:
Juanita Brown
David Isaacs
Ulric Rudebeck
Deborah Goldblatt
Bob Stilger
Jumana Husseini
Please join them as you are able in the coming months, and help us pass this message on to others and keep the gift of the World Café moving forward.
In the meantime, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to every one of you.
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| Three New World Café Signature Learning Programs Scheduled
"I've been very satisfied with the TWC Level One Online Learning Program - it is well-organized and professionally conducted, yet maintaining the principles of TWC. I've also been impressed with the effective use of the TWC online community platform to reinforce participants learning, sharing and collaboration."
 After the success of our inaugural learning programs in August (online) and September (in Sao Paulo), we now have three new Level One online learning programs scheduled for December 2011, January 2012 and February 2012, with the first one starting on December 8th.
Register Now to join us in December!
For those of you who've learned about the World Cafe through books, these accessible Level One courses give a direct experience of World Café and offer the opportunity to ask questions and share learning with peers and seasoned World Café hosts alike.
In August several hardy souls from South Africa, Brunei, and Singapore joined online Learning Program sessions in what was the middle of the night in their countries! So this time, our courses have been scheduled to be convenient in different time zones. If you live in Asia or Australia, for example, you may want to register for the January program so you can participate during the day!
Learn more about World Café Signature Learning Programs or Register Now for the December program.
Watch this space for news of Levels One and Two being offered online and face to face around the world. Remember, Level One (or the equivalent experience) is necessary preparation for Level Two, which covers the fundamentals of World Café hosting. Our first Level Two online course is now being planned in collaboration with Fielding Gratuate University, due to launch March 2012. The successful completion of this four-week course will yield 4 CEUs.
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Community News
News from the International World Café community
 World Café Book News:
The World Café Book is now available on Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch! (downloadable through iTunes or your device's App store)
A special thank you to David Marshall and Rick Wilson at our marvelous publishers Berrett Koehler for staying on this and translating our graphic-rich book into the ePub format. New Translations of World Café Documents:
We now have an Italian translation of the World Café Resource Guide listed as part of our free Tool Kit. Thank you so much to Adriano Pianesi for his love of the World Café and his dedication to conversations that matter in Italy. See other translations of key World Cafe documents in the World Café Publications page and Tool Kit on the website.
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Online World Cafés
Proving that World Cafe conversations can be as powerful online as they are face-to-face... The last few months have brought us three very different virtual World Café events: 1) "What is Moving and Awaking in the World?"A collaboratively designed and hosted virtual World Café connecting people all over the world in a conversation about the revolt happening all over the world against antiquated systems and structures that no longer serve us. Read more...* * *  2) Inclusivity Café
Earlier this month Joe Donofrio brought in World Café Online Services partner weDialogue to help him host the first of a series of a sector-wide online conversations in the disability community.
Read More... (you have to see the wonderful graphic harvest Joe's son Justin created)
* * * 3) World Café at the Shift Network's Enlightened Business SummitAmy Lenzo co-hosted this final harvest session with notable TED presenter Chip Conley to tap the insights and connect the dots from this week-long summit about drawing on and applying emotional intelligence in business leadership.
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More World Café Stories
1,000 Table World Café in Tel Aviv
Reports of a 1000 table World Café in Tel Aviv have been coming in from all over the community - this one of those stories that inspires us all and helps us see how we might actually make it through these challenging times together. Read more... * * *  Shaping the Future of New York City
World Café played a role in bringing all the voices to bear in an innovative city-wide Festival of Ideas for the New City - an event designed to collaboratively imagine and shape the future of one of America's largest and most vibrant metropolises.
Read more... * * * Have you hosted or participated in a World Café? Join the World Café online community and share your story in our StoryNet. Read about what is happening around the world and let's learn from each other! |
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The World Café Community Foundation
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We are very excited to welcome 