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March 2016

The seeds of new energy and activity building on the strength of our 20th Anniversary celebrations last fall are pushing up new shoots everywhere!

Welcome to this issue of World Café News!

Read on for:
  • Videos and a downloadable Harvest Report from the World Café 20th Anniversary 2015 celebrations
     
  • A new edition of the Spanish translation of the World Café book, timed to coincide with a ground-breaking national Peace initiative in Columbia
     
  • An innovative new learning program on Harvesting & Collective Sense-Making
     
  • Highlights of where we're headed in 2016


HARVESTING THE WORLD CAFE'S
20TH ANNIVERSARY IMPACT JAMBOREE

The World Café's 20th Anniversary celebrations in 2015 were far-reaching and truly amazing, with people all over the world contributing - hosting regional Impact Cafés, sharing stories, giving video interviews, sending messages of love and support, hosting & attending global online Impact Cafés, and more.

Together we have expanded our sense of just how wide and rich our shared community is.  Have a look at the videos and download the Harvest Report below!

We're very pleased to start by sharing two videos created by Amy Lenzo and FireHawk Hulin for the World Café Community Foundation.

This first is a 2.5 minute celebratory poem, a collective ode to what makes the World Café so special:

The second, Impacts & Dreams, is a 12.5 minute dance of interviews across overlapping communities, conveying a collective sense of World Café impact over the last twenty years and our dreams for the next twenty. It's also been translated into Spanish!

And finally, here is a downloadable Harvest Report (1.8M) with the whole story, including links to the above videos:




NEW ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE WORLD CAFE BOOK
 

Lemoine Editores in Bogóta, Columbia have just released this new anniversary edition of the award-winning World Café book, complete with updated & revised resource pages, a brand new introduction and an addendum with two seminal new stories about World Cafés in Latin America focused on Peace.

The book's launch coincides with a national Government initiative to promote peace through conversation - Las Conversación más Grande del Mundo - and the publishers, as well as key World Café practitioners in Latin America, will be working closely with them as part of that important project.

We're very excited about this wonderful new translation, and send our deepest gratitude to the wonderful team at Lemoine Editores!

     


 

HARVESTING & COLLECTIVE SENSE-MAKING

Join co-hosts Amy Lenzo, Rowan Simonsen, and Chris Corrigan for an online learning program focusing on a key facet of hosting practice. It's called Harvesting and Collective Sense-Making: Moving from Dialogue to Action and Learning.

Chris is well-known for his pioneering work in articulating a theory and practice of harvesting that radically informs the learning edge of hosting conversations that matter, and this course will use that theory as the starting point for our shared learning.

Harvesting and Collective Sense-Making will be delivered online in a peer-learning environment with three modules of three hour-and-a-half sessions each, offered as a whole or as individual modules.

We'll be joined by some of the people doing the work we most respect in this field (see below for details), and what we'll learn together will be of value to hosts of any participatory practice, graphic facilitators and other hosting professionals, researchers, and evaluators.

~ REGISTER NOW ~ 
THE FIRST MODULE STARTS NEXT WEEK
   
MODULE ONE /
Theory & Practice
 March 16th, 30th, & April 6th 
 
MODULE TWO/
Visual Harvesting & Beyond
April 13th, 20th, & 27th

MODULE THREE /
DEEPENING & STRATEGIC APPLICATION 
May 11th, 25th, and June 1st  

With Special Guests David Sibbet, Monica Nissen, Kelvy Bird, Marguerite Drescher, Gabrielle Donally, and Zulma Patarroyo



WHAT'S NEXT?
A FIELD BOOK OF WORLD CAFE IMPACT
Building on the inspiration coming from your Impact Café stories, we are dedicating 2016 to an Impact Story Jamboree, collecting inspiring stories for the next World Café book. We're in conversation with our publishers now and projecting a publication date of late 2016/early 2017.

Please send your stories as participants & hosts of World Café via this Story Form so they too can be considered for inclusion in the book & shared with the World Café community.


INCREASED OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING
* One of the most delightful aspects of the 20th Anniversary celebrations so far has been the joyous engagement with our larger community of participatory practitioners. One example of this collaborative activity is the Harvesting and Collective Sense-Making online course starting March 16th. (Read more in this issue or register now)

* Registration is now open for the next Hosting in the Digital Realm program. It's being offered in four two-hour sessions this May; designed for hosts of all participatory practices and others who want to bring their work into the online sphere in a dynamic and inclusive way.
More Information & Registration

* We will be offering our 8-week World Café Hosting Fundamentals course again in September. This online Signature Learning Program is the premier opportunity to understand the fundamentals and deeper work of hosting World Cafe, produced in collaboration with our academic partner, Fielding Graduate University.

 
ONLINE COMMUNITY CHANGES 
And last but by no means least, we're thrilled to report that we've been joined by Trusted Sharing whiz Ty Hallock, who will be helping us realize the changes we've been wanting to make in the World Café online community space. Thank you, Ty!

If you too are passionate about the World Café international community and have ideas about what you want to see and help make happen in our online community space, please contact us to be part of stewarding the changes.

 
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