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Todd Ramage Wolf
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Todd Ramage Wolf replied to Jarett Sanchez's discussion 'Help me pitch a World Cafe to my town!' in the group Methods for Strategic Collaboration
Keep it simple, but not too simple. There is inherent simplicity in the complexity of any endeavor. Limit your goal to facilitating the discovery of the power of people's perspectives by focusing on that purpose. When people shift from the need…
Jan 22
Todd Ramage Wolf replied to Raffi Aftandelian's discussion 'What should I be paying attention to?' in the group Methods for Strategic Collaboration
Everything is significant. It is our challenge to discover the relevance, all the while being conscious of the relevance paradox. Work on expanding your receptive capabilities, your senses, and your sense of experiencing the experiences of the…
Jan 22
Todd Ramage Wolf replied to Martin Boerjan's discussion 'Please help further worldwide research into The World Cafe by participating in a short survey for my masters thesis. Read the details below....' in the group Methods for Strategic Collaboration
Increased length and frequency of any event tends to lead to mechanical best practices of means and methods when too much is taken for granted and the experience loses its uniqueness because of some predetermined expectation of the way things should…
Jan 22
Todd Ramage Wolf liked Todd Ramage Wolf's discussion 'Come out of Plato's Cave' Nov 22, 2011
Todd Ramage Wolf replied to Todd Ramage Wolf's discussion 'Come out of Plato's Cave' in the group Conversations for the 21st Century
Hello Amy, Curiosity is good. Context is important. One can have questions and make statements and share one's thoughts all at the same time while sending and receiving interpretations. While wondering how to engage ... you've engaged in…
Nov 22, 2011
Amy Lenzo replied to Todd Ramage Wolf's discussion 'Come out of Plato's Cave' in the group Conversations for the 21st Century
Todd - I'm curious about the context of your post... do you have a question for others in the group, or are you making a statement or just sharing your thoughts? I'm wondering how to engage. Amy
Nov 22, 2011
Todd Ramage Wolf replied to Ben Roberts's discussion 'Harvesting Online Conversations' in the group Art of Harvesting
How might the insights and successes emerging from our experience with structured World Cafe dialogue be applied to the more free-wheeling and disjointed realm of "asynchronous" online conversations? We are all students of existence whose…
Nov 11, 2011

Come out of Plato's Cave

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I’m just checking in to see what condition my condition is in.A fact is an assumption and/or belief that has not been proven false ... at least not yet. The underlying problem to the symptoms that we are being told are the problems is the belief that perception is reality. Reality exists and is for us to discover. Profound knowledge is discovered in the interplay between truth and belief. As long as we keep holding on to the belief that society is the collective sum of it parts rather than a…See More
Todd Ramage Wolf added a discussion to the group Conversations for the 21st Century Oct 22, 2011
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Todd Ramage Wolf replied to Amy Lenzo's discussion 'Community - Conversation Starters & Special Guests' in the group Conversations for the 21st Century
Perceptions of power. What is power? What is powerful? Who is powerful? Who has power? Power as a means to an end; power as an end in itself. Paradoxical power: passive power. The power to provoke being influence gained from the pull…
Oct 21, 2011
Todd Ramage Wolf replied to Todd Ramage Wolf's discussion 'Common Denominator that is the Inherent Simplicity in the Complexity' in the group Conversations for the 21st Century
We are all students of existence where the past meets the future in the present. Our forever is limited to a lifetime and the influence of that forever is eternity. The constraint to realizing the endless potential of living human systems is…
Oct 20, 2011
Ben Roberts replied to Todd Ramage Wolf's discussion 'Common Denominator that is the Inherent Simplicity in the Complexity' in the group Conversations for the 21st Century
And what will we leave as the legacy of our existence in the 21st Century?   The Iroquois spoke of planning seven generations into the future.  I have heard it suggested that this number derives from the span of a single degree of…
Oct 20, 2011

Common Denominator that is the Inherent Simplicity in the Complexity

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We are all students of existence whose forever is a lifetime and whose eternity is what we leave behind when we pass on.Todd Wolf800 Pound Guerrillatodd@800PoundGuerrilla.comSee More
Todd Ramage Wolf added a discussion to the group Conversations for the 21st Century Oct 20, 2011
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Conversations for the 21st Century

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Welcome to Conversations for the 21st Century online group!
Todd Ramage Wolf joined Amy Lenzo's group Oct 20, 2011
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carlos lemoine replied to Todd Ramage Wolf's discussion 'The Framing of Questions' in the group The art of questioning
Very nice hint to use the hats as way to understand the world cafe talk. Thanks
Jul 10, 2010
Franis Engel replied to Todd Ramage Wolf's discussion 'The Framing of Questions' in the group The art of questioning
Have you ever used Edward de Bono's Six Hat Thinking? It encourages parallel thinking, meaning people on the same side of a question rather than at odds with each other. Very observant you are to note that most people make their decisions…
Jun 7, 2010
Todd Ramage Wolf replied to John Inman's discussion 'The birth of a research community here on The World Cafe Online Community' in the group World Cafe - Fielding Research Group
Persistently persevere the perplexity by simplifying the complexity ... a thousand pictures a word can inspire... a thousand perceptions a word will require ... if one doesn't work than the next may be nearer to painting that picture that makes…
May 29, 2010

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Please indicate World Café experience in one or more of the following roles.
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 a quest to recreate conversations that I used to share with my mother to use as a model for conversations with others, I came across World Cafe: Conversations that Matter as a result of internet search. I was blown away by the similarities of those conversations with my mother ... the elegant simplicity of purposeful truth seeking. I purchased and read the book and was convinced.
In what field is the primary focus of your World Café work?
Health, Education, Corporate, Religion, Online, Government, Community
What knowledge, skills or resources would you like to contribute to the World Café community to help it grow and flourish?
The most scholarly individuals are not necessarily the wisest individuals. Does anyone remember wisdom? Does anybody really care? Big brains have joined the sensationalized pornographic ranks of massive mammary and giant genitalia ... we've lost perspective ... we've subordinated cause to correlation ... wisdom to pragmatism ... thought, feeling, experience, and responsible action to sensation and association.
What would you most like to receive from this community?
Perspective, inspiration, access to new opportunities of expression.
All human beings are potentially divine,
Striving in concert, mind and spirit find truth.
A life worth living is continually defined
In the waters of wisdom's fountain of youth. - Todd Wolf
What haven't we asked that you'd like to share?
Question: What do you see as a barrier to conversations that matter?
Perspective: The perfect imperfection that is life, is realized in the relationships and interactions of the forces of polarity (Good/Evil, Hot/Cold, Up/Down) and our perception of them in terms of being dynamic and/or static (Chaos/Organization, Diversity/Unit, Radical/Conventional). So the problem of our time is creating the conditions for the emergence of order in the chaos, not controlling it.

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At 9:53pm on May 18, 2010, Amy LenzoAmy Lenzo said…
Let's talk!
At 12:39pm on May 17, 2010, Amy LenzoAmy Lenzo said…
It's wonderful to have you here, Todd!

I am very interested in following some of the threads you've introduced, and I look forward to seeing how you manifest your interests here and to connecting with you over them...

My own focus has been on the online application of these principles, and I notice you joined the Online World Cafes group, so am assuming that is also an interest of yours... am I correct, or are you just curious? :-)
At 9:01am on May 17, 2010, Benjamin Aaron DegenhartBenjamin Aaron Degenhart said…
Welcome Todd, great that you joined this World Cafe Online Community of Learning and Practice.

I love the enthusiasm and wisdom you show on your profile! Bows to you and your mother having found a deep pattern of meaningful conversations!! And yes, the information about those basic human architectures are in the field... and who listens is able to build on those vibrations.

I invite you to write an introduction about yourself in the area we created for this. It will be a nice entry point for you into this community.

May this space serve you well...

I am here for you if you have questions about the online space, best wishes,
Benjamin [Global Communications team member]
 
 
 

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