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September, 2015
Hi All,
When we think back to the surveys we sent out late last year, asking for your ideas on how you'd like to celebrate the World Caf�'s 20th Anniversary, we're thrilled to see so many of them being enacted.  We wanted to gather together locally to meet each other and dream into the future - and we're doing it! Impact Caf�s are now scheduled throughout October all over the world. We wanted a way to celebrate globally - all of us at once - and we'll have the chance to do that in the online Global Harvest Caf�s coming up in November - save the dates and register early. We wanted to stand together with our friends and colleagues in the Art of Hosting and other participatory practices to celebrate our collective impact, and that's exactly what we're doing! |
Thank you for making it all happen with your ideas and your many contributions to this special 20th Anniversary Impact Jamboree, which is in full flow right now:
We have a fabulous new Impact Jamboree graphic, capturing the story in one picture like only graphic recording can do, created by Susan Kelly (see it featured on the front page of the World Caf� website) ...o0o...
Announcements of new Impact Caf�s are still coming in (check out the current Impact Caf� Listings & here's the form to submit yours). Two of them are being held at the world-renowned Bioneers conference in northern California, and they're making a special conference admissions offer for us (see below). ...o0o...
Hold the Dates for Global Online Impact Caf�s (there will be two, so all the time zones in the world are represented - we'd love you to join us for both!): November 17th & November 18. Local Times & More Info. ...o0o...
Stories of World Caf� impact are coming in from all corners of the globe and being featured in the community StoryNet and Impact Map. These are truly wonderful stories, but we won't know about yours unless you share it! ...o0o...
20th Anniversary messages and well wishes are coming in from all over (including an especially stirring shout-out from Otto Scharmer - see it below). Inspired by our friends at a recent conference in Mumbai, we're hosting a special "Message Wall" for these greetings and we'd love to hear from you, too! See the invitation below. ...o0o... The World Caf� Community blog is jumping right now with articles, testimonials, video interviews, etc. - subscribe now so you don't miss any of this inspiring content ... watch for a special message from our beloved elder Anne Dosher, Guardian of the Soul of the World Caf� & now in her 90s, on October 1st.
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Read on for more World Cafe & community news, including Research developments and new conversations in the Stories for Change series.  |
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Special Offer for Bioneers Conference Impact Caf�s
October 16-18, San Rafael, CA, USA
Interested in having rich conversations with Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, and Amy Lenzo (World Cafe and Wiser Together Pioneers), David Shaw (UCSC Common Ground), Joanna Macy (Work that Reconnects), Dana Pearlman (The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development) and over 12,000 innovators, social justice advocates, and ecological designers? Join us for World Cafe and Open Space sessions designed specifically for our community!
Yes? We have a special offer for you!
Register at the Registration Booth on-site starting at 1:30pm Pacific Time each day for a $75 half-day pass or Register on-line using the promotional code "WorldCafe" for all three days and pay $425 instead of the full conference ticket price of $750! Friday, October 16th, 2:45 - 4:15pm, join conversations about permaculture, public placemaking, reclaiming the commons and slowing down into deep community in our World Cafe session entitled Village Building and Reclaiming the Commons. Saturday, October 17th, 2:45 - 4:15pm, don't miss this rare and inspirational opportunity to participate as we are joined by Joanna Macy (Bioneers elder, author and seed teacher of The Work that Reconnects) for conversations about how we can collaborate across the cycle of life to shape our shared future in our session entitled Intergenerational Partnerships for The Great Turning. Sunday, October 18th, 2:45 - 6:00pm, join us for a celebratory, productive and engaging finale to the weekend with with an Open Space session entitled Creating Tomorrow Together through Collaboration, Creativity and Celebrationwhere all are welcome to post and join topics, co-creating a learning environment that fosters shared vision and enables collective intelligence to emerge. Come connect with other Bioneers who share your passion, and forge alliances for future action.
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World Cafe Research
We are delighted to report that thanks to Niels Agger-Gupta, Associate Professor at Royal Roads University, we have received a list of 80 Masters theses and doctoral dissertations featuring the use of World Caf� as a research method. This will be available on the website soon. Our intent is to create a fully annotated bibliography of research and inquiry about World Caf�.
In the meantime, we've expanded the research pages on the World Caf� website to show you where we want to go, and invite you to send us any academic or professional journal articles, white papers, grey papers, etc. that you are aware of - whether they be about World Caf�, using World Caf� as a method, or evaluating World Caf�. We appreciate your help in growing this collection of research material that will be a valuable resource for all of us.
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Otto Scharmer and his colleagues are hosting the U.Lab 2.0 MOOC right now, with more than 40,000 people participating all over the world (including many of us!).
U.Lab uses Twitter for communication during live sessions. After receiving our thanks for being included in the U.Lab guide, Otto responded:
 What a great affirmation of what we are all doing together. Thank you for being such an inspiration, Otto!
Special thanks to Michaela Sieh for caring for these communications, and all the beautiful messages she's been sending out on social media in support of the 20th Anniversary celebrations.
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As we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of World Caf� together, we invite you to add your well wishes to co-created global "Message Wall".
These messages could be birthday wishes, a note of gratitude for something that World Caf� has brought to your life, blessings, personal learnings, seeds for the future of our global movement, your favorite World Caf� image, a poem, a song, a quote... whatever your unique expression might be.
We have already received several of these messages (we're calling them "love letters" :-). Here's one:
To make it as easy as possible, please just email us your message & we'll put them up on a dedicated space in the World Caf� website.
You can also tweet your message: @TWCcommunity. Please use the hashtag: #theworldcafe (your tweet-wishes will also be published on the website).
Thank you!
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Stories for Change is an online conversation series hosted by Mary Alice Arthur and Amy Lenzo about the power and practice of story in shaping our lives and creating our futures.
Registration is now open for the next 3 sessions:
October 5th: Practicing Partnership: Staying and Playing Together through Life, Love and Work with Toke Paludan M�ller, Monica N�ssen, Malene L�nden & S�ren Hermansen
Nov 16: What Ancient Wisdom tells us about Bringing Our Human Story into Balance & the Dance of Masculine and Feminine with Pele Chadima and FireHawk Hulin
Dec 7th: People on the Move: Migration, Disaster, Crisis - What New Stories are we Writing Together? with Maria Scordialos and Bob Stilger
More Information and Registration Links
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"There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe."
~ Teilhard de Chardin
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