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 Café'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 Cafés 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 Cafés 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!

Thanks to our friends at Kommunikationslotsen for this beautiful image

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 Café website)

Announcements of new Impact Cafés are still coming in (check out the current Impact Café 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).

 

Stories of World Café 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!

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.


Read on for more World Cafe & community news, including Research developments and new conversations in the Stories for Change series.