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TWC and prejudice, bias
Dear Colleagues,
Recently I have facilitated a World Cafe and an Open Space meeting for the regional coordiantors of the Hungarian Network Against Child-Poverty.
They were really interested and enthusiasted especially about the OST.
Conversation...
A table-note from the cafe
Amongst others one key question triggered them: They quiet open meet people with massive prejudices against gipsy, and poor people in their Sub-regions, settlements. The Childpowerty Program is for these people, so it is really frustrating to work with these doctors, mayors, local policeman, headmasters, and so on.
Obviuosly the Cafe is a great method to get people together, to open them kindly...
...but they (the coordinators) are worried what if massive verbal violence raises or the people with their prejudicec come around tables and their biases and not helpful, destructive menthal modells just strenghtened.
Have you ever organised a cafe in such situation, where minority and majority, poor and rich, afro-americans and xenophobes, gipsies and skinheads, black and white came together?
I would be curious about your experience.
Thank you for sharing,
Best,
Szilard
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Permalink Reply by Ruzsa Ágota Éva on -
Dear Szilard,
I once had the opportunity to have and facilitate an event like this with people in the NE of Hungary, as you know extremely impoverished... and i was surprised how well they could it together and share and plan and design together. Yet, I also know that perhaps the invitation which allowed them to sit together was how to develop common projects so that some grant could be raised from the EU funds... and thus the issues were NOT their conflicts among themselves but rather the " enemy " was out there in their minds. I am very much interested in developing more of such events to see how Different Dialogue processes can contribute to the opening of the heart&mind in and among people of discrimination and minorities, esp.in Hungary between young gipsy intellectuals and non gipsy youth whom I worked with a lot as you know. There may well be some support coming for this project.I'd love you to join. Agota
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Permalink Reply by Amy Lenzo on -
This image with the candle is one of the most beautiful World Cafe photos I have seen... Did you take it, Strenner? And if so, would you be willing to let us use it (with credit of course - send any url you'd like it to link to) in World Cafe communications?
Warmly,
Amy
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Permalink Reply by Strenner Szilárd on -
Dear Amy,
of course, you can use that image. Yes, as far as I remember, I took it 'cos Everyone else were "drinking Worldcafe".
Love,
Szilard (Strenner is my family name ;-) )
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