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- Please indicate your World Café experience (ONLY IF YOU HAVE ACTUAL WORLD CAFE EXPERIENCE) in one or more of the following roles:
- Host, Participant
- What field is the primary focus of your World Café work (ONLY CHECK AREAS WHERE YOU ARE ALREADY ACTIVELY USING WORLD CAFE PLEASE)?
- Education
- What knowledge, skills or resources would you like to contribute to the World Café community to help it grow and flourish?
- My greatest interest is in how to encourage organizations and institutions (academic institutions, in particular) to create the space for their people to discover what they know, what they share as important, and where they want to go. I most often use cafe conversations as a way to initiate inviting people to become more actively engaged in co-creating the institutions they want to be a part of.
- What would you most like to receive from this community?
- Shared insights about how to host conversations well, what we are learning about these processes, and where we can go with them using electronic communications. I greatly enjoyed participating in the Maestro Conferences in October. The potential in this direction is use.
- Would you like to share a Web or Blog address?
- http://www.novalearning.com
- What haven't we asked that you'd like to share?
- What do I find most exciting about World Cafe Conversations? As I began to use large group conversations in the early 1990s, I realized that something extraordinary was happening in a room of faculty and staff, something that I had not observed in their more traditional governance meetings. As World Cafe evolved, I included this approach. What I observed, which I at first hesitated to label, had something to do with a collective energy, a collective spirit, a new kind of engagement of respect and discovery. It led me to the core of my work: exploring the spiritual dimensions of academic institutions.
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It's exciting to read your profile and get even just a little sense of who you are... Welcome! I really look forward to getting to know you.
I'm pleased you enjoyed the Maestro Conference conversations, and recognize the potential for this wonderful communications tool.
Please share a story about one of your Cafes... it's through our stories that we are able to learn from what others are doing, and I can tell you have a lot of wisdom to share. I wonder if, after you have gotten comfortable here, you would consider starting a group for people using the World Cafe in Education? There are so many folks here that are using the World Cafe in your sector, and I know it would be hugely valuable to begin to aggregate some of what we're learning.
Again, so glad you're here!
Warm Wishes,
Amy