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Comment by Barbara Krohn on August 18, 2009 at 11:13am

Hello to All of you! Loretta, thank you for stepping up and creating this group and offering to Mentor others in World Cafe design and principles! I had someone ask about joining in and wanted to make sure she could join easily! Looking forward to the Magic!

Comment by Ted Hand on August 17, 2009 at 10:49am

Thank you Loretta. This group is well timed. Sorry about my profile picture. I hope to have the real me up there during the next month.

Comment by Donald Proffit on August 16, 2009 at 7:06am

I am definitely excited about the formation of this group and looking forward to a lively exchange of ideas.
Don

Comment by salvatore rasa on August 15, 2009 at 8:21pm

Hello Elaine,

Looking forward to working with the group. Nice to meet you.

Sal

Comment by Dr. R.Elaine Winslow on August 15, 2009 at 5:15am

Hello Loretta and group.
I am a quintessential New Yorker who is branching out to the world. My area of interest and expertise is expanding the educational, emotional and economical scope of parents, particularly although not exclusively parents who have a disability. I have interacted with both Juanita and yourself on a professional level and am very interested in working with this group.

Ciao, Elaine

Comment by juanita brown on August 14, 2009 at 8:21pm

Hi Loretta,
Thanks SO much for creating this group. As soon as I have just a bit of time, I'll invite several people from the New York/New Jersey area who might really love being a part of this.

With fondest regards and gratitude,
Juanita

Comment by salvatore rasa on August 1, 2009 at 9:40am

Yes, I believe (and attempting a book now) on ideas like collective change management and social organization design. My interests are not strictly about business, but the integration of our humanity into the working world.

I know that sounds a bit pretentious, but I mean it as very humble. Fundamental. Really great jazz musicians understand that there are no wrong notes. Just inappropriate choices. It take years of dedication and hard work to freely exchange ideas as they do to reach a very human exchange of ideas in moment.

So, like you, I feel that I work in a space of questioning assumptions and provoking networks to be expressive. This is not soft, just the opposite in today's complicated environment.

Running now, look forward to more conversation.

Sal

Comment by Kat Koppett on August 1, 2009 at 9:24am

I have colleagues who introduced me to the idea that we are all performing all the time. Not, mind you, that we are being inauthentic, but simply that in each interaction (even those in which we are alone) we make performance choices. How we interact with a newborn, for example, is different from how we interact with our boss.
The questions that comes to my mind, Salvatore, based on your thoughts are:
- What new choices are we making based on new technologies and forums?
- How do we expand our range of performance options to best create what we wish to create?
- What assumptions do we make about our "audiences" that limit or support our performance choices?

It feels to me like there is a way in which we could say World Cafe was created to empower new, more collaborative performances, yes?

Comment by Suzanne Roff on August 1, 2009 at 7:58am

life is a cabaret my friend -- life is a cabaret. sorry can't say more -- working on tight deadline.

Comment by salvatore rasa on August 1, 2009 at 7:25am

Hi everyone,

Several of the words already showing up prompted a thought. Words like, stories, theater, improvisation.

I have long believed (not a major insight, just reality), that the theater has always been a way for a society to talk to itself about itself. The ancient Greeks gave citizens the money to go to the theater if they did not have the money. One could not really participate in the development and the culture of the city without attending/participating in theater.

Shakespeare often wrote about history so he could effectively/safely, comment on the government of his time.

So...Social networking, collaborative thought sharing etc. Are we entering another form of theater? And, what are the possibilities of affecting the work place? The world work place.

Theater at it's best is always about what the audience can do. Not simply "the performers".

I have no idea if any of this is interesting to you.

Sal

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