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Replied Nov. 22, 2009
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I am finishing a paper on using TWC as a research approach and when I have completed, I would love to get some input from this group. Katia is doing a review for me at this time and once I add some more meat to the paper and integrate in her input,…
Barbara let me know how your graphic harvest goes. I love doing this particularly if I do not have a graphic recorder like Kelvy. Take care and have fun.
John
Thank you, Juanita for your warm welcome and the contact information. I have a copy of your book, "The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter" and I intend on reading it. I am interested in taking some future actions. I ha…
Hi John,
you should contact Amy Lenzo, our communications steward (Amy@theworldcafe.com) who is also the administrator for this Ning site.
Warm regards and Welcome to the World Cafe....Vicki Robin and we have been dear friends for many years...
Juan…
Hi, everyone,
I'm new to World Cafe but have been a Conversation Cafe host for over 7 1/2 years. I am very interested in good questions to ask in conversation as well as getting support for future actions. I have been having some difficulties sendi…
Research that feeds off of itself. A research community dedicated to exploring how to contribute to the evolution of the intersection of The World Cafe and of Fielding Graduate Institute - An act of transformation of the whole.
I tried for the first time using a 4th round for a research round in a cafe. After three rounds, I added a fourth and passed out a paper for each table to answer two questions. The first was a harvest of the insights from the cafe and the second ins…
One method that I love particularly if you do not have a graphic recorder is to do a group recording of the insights and then a conversation around that. I post paper on a wall, a series of flip chart papers in a continuous flow if you do not have w…
Caroline I appreciate the study. Most interesting. I will drop you a note about your work. Take care.
John
Fielding folks,
Happy 2010! Thanks to all of you who contributed to making the 2009 Dialogue and Deliberation Practitioners Survey a success. As promised, our results website is now live:
Survey Results
Share this link with others, download or brow…
Research that feeds off of itself. A research community dedicated to exploring how to contribute to the evolution of the intersection of The World Cafe and of Fielding Graduate Institute - An act of transformation of the whole.
Peg, I have been thinking about a similar situation at a dear friends ELCA church where he is an interim paster. The congragation is in a rich multi-cultural setting but has never drawn in the community.
I have suggested that they create a series o…
John,
I looked you up on this community after hearing you participate in several forums at the last Pegasus Conference--loved your contributions.
I am just starting to explore how Systems Thinking/World Cafe can be used in non-profits. Not neccesari…
Kelvy, I really like this recording. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
John
Dennis, have you connected with Nancy on the Gore project? Go to the this thread. Wonderful project. The two seem to support each other. http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/forum/topics/al-gores-climate-project
John
Your work sounds very interesting. If you would like to explore how to create a World Cafe conversation. I would be glad to be a resource. There have been quite a few conversation on this forum about this very topic for someone new to TWC. Dig aroun…
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- Please indicate World Café experience in one or more of the following roles.
- Host, Participant
- In what field is the primary focus of your World Café work?
- Education, Corporate, Religion, Online, Community
- What knowledge, skills or resources would you like to contribute to the World Café community to help it grow and flourish?
- Partnership, research, practice, mentorship, friendship
- What would you most like to receive from this community?
- Conversations, connections, ideas on how to be the change that I was to create.
- Would you like to share a Web or Blog address?
- http://learning-conversations.blogspot.com
- What haven't we asked that you'd like to share?
- Amy now this is a big question. LOL Education, elderhood, friendship, partnership, collaboration, social change, how do we heal?, being a part of a community that is focused on learning in conversation. And much more.
A bit about me. Dry but oh well, I tend to live my work.
John Inman-Unlocking Wisdom to Lead in a Complex World
Leadership Mission:
There is no where to go and nothing to do except be of service.
Learning Mission:
Dedicated to the development of capacity and capabilities in adults for change and growth.
Human and organizational systems expertise:
* Process Facilitation: Unlocking the wisdom in groups through Focused Conversation, World Cafe, and other conversational frameworks
* Leadership: Leading in a Human Centric Organization based on living systems framework
* Management: Coaching to create high performance team members and teams
* Process: Quality fluent with expertise in structuring enterprises that deliver high levels of value to clients
* Team Building: Building high performance teams and operations
* Learning: Team member development using collaborative strategies
* Culture Development: Mission, Vision, Values, and Value Target development
* Communications: Conversational models to create trust, rapport, and learning
* Social, work, and learning styles: Developing trust and rapport and structuring teams based on work preference, learning style, and social style
* Service: Creating outstanding internal and external customer service
* Relationship Building : Developing relationships based on trust, rapport, and respect
* Business development: Councelor sales management and strategic partnering to create and keep customers
* Hospitality: Creating operations, teams, and team members that deliver high levels of hospitality to guests in the hospitality industry
Focus of work:
Conversational Leadership
Process Facilitation
Living/Organic systems
Sustainable systems
Conversational learning
Collaborative learning strategies
Learner centered, outcome based frameworks
Story telling
Leadership
Behavioral Coaching
Specialties:
I have extensive experience in developing service & technology companies & specialize in systems thinking & conversational learning. I transform organizations by focusing on creating high performance team members working in a human centric organizational setting. I have over 15 years of operational & executive background.
Leadership Mission:
There is no where to go and nothing to do except be of service.
Learning Mission:
Dedicated to the development of capacity and capabilities in adults for change and growth.
Human and organizational systems expertise:
* Process Facilitation: Unlocking the wisdom in groups through Focused Conversation, World Cafe, and other conversational frameworks
* Leadership: Leading in a Human Centric Organization based on living systems framework
* Management: Coaching to create high performance team members and teams
* Process: Quality fluent with expertise in structuring enterprises that deliver high levels of value to clients
* Team Building: Building high performance teams and operations
* Learning: Team member development using collaborative strategies
* Culture Development: Mission, Vision, Values, and Value Target development
* Communications: Conversational models to create trust, rapport, and learning
* Social, work, and learning styles: Developing trust and rapport and structuring teams based on work preference, learning style, and social style
* Service: Creating outstanding internal and external customer service
* Relationship Building : Developing relationships based on trust, rapport, and respect
* Business development: Councelor sales management and strategic partnering to create and keep customers
* Hospitality: Creating operations, teams, and team members that deliver high levels of hospitality to guests in the hospitality industry
Focus of work:
Conversational Leadership
Process Facilitation
Living/Organic systems
Sustainable systems
Conversational learning
Collaborative learning strategies
Learner centered, outcome based frameworks
Story telling
Leadership
Behavioral Coaching
Specialties:
I have extensive experience in developing service & technology companies & specialize in systems thinking & conversational learning. I transform organizations by focusing on creating high performance team members working in a human centric organizational setting. I have over 15 years of operational & executive background.
Comment Wall (13 comments)
- At 11:33pm on November 27, 2009,
Pastor Stephennie said… - Hi John, I am planning a huge cafe at my church entitled PUSH "pray unitil something happens" It's based on the movie PRECIOuS. I have been facilitating cafe's now for about 4 years I LOVE them!! Well I am new to the the world cafe' site and everyone seems to be replying to my email and not the site is that normal??? How does the site help ....I have about 22 registered and I have not yet posted the event...what are some of your promotional idea's and some of the other tools this site has to offer? Please Asvise. Thank You!!
- At 7:18pm on November 7, 2009,
John Morgan said… - I guess I mean more what do you physically do with the results. I have transcribed them and sorted by question and then written summaries of the major themes. I photograph the artwork and incorporate it into the summary. That seems like the logical way to use the results, but have you seen any other way?
- At 10:22am on November 7, 2009,
John Morgan said…
- Plan on it.
Tell me what you do to follow-up on Cafe sessions generally. What do you do with the comments received? Where does it go from there?
- At 4:04pm on November 3, 2009,
Jenn Scharf said… - Hi John,
Thanks for the great conversation at the end of the multi-generational Cafe. It was great to connect.
Jenn
- At 8:14am on October 29, 2009,
Anne Dosher said… - Dear John: I am keeping up with your page. It occurs to me that
as a great grandmother in this country and a great aunt in Canada
I have my own intergenerational conversation (co-generational)
within my own family in two countries!; and am privileged to
be in dialogue with many across the world. Blessings, Anne, Elder, TWC.
- At 12:05pm on September 7, 2009,
Chris Abbey said… - Love to John. I will also try to get a teleconference before just so people from the area can touch base with each other. Would you be interested in participating?
- At 7:54am on September 7, 2009,
Terry VanQuickenborne said…
- Good morning John. Thank you for the friend request. I'm delighted to accept. I am also on an educational journey - a year into my graduate degree at Pepperdine. I applaud you for taking the step to do your PhD. I've heard amazing things about the Fielding program. I'm looking forward to conversations and connections with this community.
- At 10:06am on August 29, 2009,
Cynthia said…
- Hi John, I'm just learning to navigate this space and looking forward to being part of this community. Thank you for the friend invite and for hosting the last meeting. I look forward to getting to know you and our other colleagues better!
- At 9:00am on August 14, 2009,
Janet Birgenheier said… - Hi, John,
No, I don't think I saw your previous comment because I haven't been checking this social networking site very regularly. So sorry. I didn't attend the conference in Boston, so I don't believe we've ever met. It's interesting that you say I look familiar. Many people whom I've never met tell me that. I must have the most common face on the planet! I noticed in your comments that you're starting a PhD. Good for you! I'm 58 and two thirds finished with a master's program in OD at the University of San Francisco. It's an interesting journey to be doing this in my 50s. I'm very happy to be finally fulfilling this dream. I joined the World Cafe online community partly to find people (hopefully in the San Francisco Bay Area) with whom I can partner to get some practice with World Cafe. I learned the technique at a workshop by Christine Whitney Sanchez a few years ago and really love it -- along with Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry. But, I've been busy with school and my change management consulting work and haven't had opportunities yet to use WC.
- At 9:32pm on July 28, 2009,
Barbara Krohn said… - Hi John!
Happy to be your friend! Thank you for your willingness to help as we begin this new adventure!
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