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Franis Engel
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- Please indicate World Café experience in one or more of the following roles.
- Visual Recorder, I'm New to the World Cafe
- If you are new to the World Cafe, would you please share how you heard about this community?
- In what field is the primary focus of your World Café work?
- Education, Online, Community
- What knowledge, skills or resources would you like to contribute to the World Café community to help it grow and flourish?
- my experience with David Bohm style Dialogue groups and the online community connected to the activity. If you'd like to see my graphic arts experience: http://www.franis.org/holiday
- What would you most like to receive from this community?
- Education on how to start and tend World Cafe events in my own community. Jobs doing virtual graphic recording.
- Would you like to share a Web or Blog address?
- http://dialoguers.livejournal.com http://www.franis.org
- What haven't we asked that you'd like to share?
- Perhaps that question can't be answered better after playing around here a bit to see what this site has to offer and how I can offer the benefit of my experience to others here.
Of course, I would love to offer my experience in Alexander Technique!
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Alternately: Do David Bohm style Dialogue
Posted on June 19, 2010 at 3:09am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Someone asked a great question here - "What would you do if not so many people showed up for a World Cafe - or they were tired?"
People who do David Bohm-style Dialogue have had very successful experiences with less than ten people. Dialogue group can accommodate up to thirty people, but any more than that gets too big and there ends up being a competition for talking time. So this is one reason why the World Cafe format works better for larger groups. Also…
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That's quite a story, Ocean O! It sounds as though you're a practiced lucid dreamer. Have you shared it with people who spend time studying dreams? Or is it a story that you made up from your imagination? Either way, it's got a lot of wisdom embedded in the narrative.
My storytelling started almost 20 years ago when I began collecting folktales from around the world and throughout time about life, death and beyond. In 1998 I published a book: Some Folk Say: Stories of Life, Death, and Beyond. I wrote the Introduction and commentry for each story and since then have been giving workshops and courses using the stories as a way to open people's imaginary realms and allow them to explore new territory, especially regarding their relationship to death--and therefore life. My latest workshop is "EXIT Plan: for people who love Life" You can find out more on my website, www.lifedeathbeyond.com My point is everything is a story--our interpretation of what has happened or may happen. We can change the story and thus change our lives.
Franis: I do remember making some crack about the consequenses of holding a World Cafe session on April Fool's Day. Since everything is connected to everything, why shouldn't that include a man-made construct such as Maestro Conference? It's all part of the energetic web of life, no? Our expectations create our experience and the culture expects to be tricked on April 1 so Maestro stepped in to fulfill that expectation. That's my story, anyway. I'm a storyteller, so what can you expect?
sorry to be gone so long, other matters globally. Back home for a few months and I will contact through web aroound hosting cafe conversations. Aloha mai.
I'm new at World Cafe and saw you comments on David Bohm. I understand that, for him, we have to put off judging and I've already participate of some workshops following his methodology. I'd like to understand what happens with judging in world cafe. Thanks!
Thank your very much,
Sandra
Also, I met the Alexander Technique but through 'Focusing' a body-centred mindfulness - theres a couple of clips about 'wholebody focusing' at http://www.youtube.com/Simondo18 - hope you might find these of interest! - Simon
Great to see another on the Island of Hawaii doing this work. Also good to know about your background in graphic recording. Hopefully we'll have an opportunity to meet sometime.
~Eric
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