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This webinar series hosted by The Lotus will begin on February 16th and run for 5 weeks. It is the first part in series of two.

We will be discussing the interior aspects of leadership and how to leverage your self as a change agent, be fully yourself and perceive beyond cognition alone.

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I recently did a blog post at my Pathways to New Community Paradigms Blog which featured the World Cafe Online Community and am reposting it here.

In the last post we took a look at Using Online Communities to encourage Direct Democracy for On-The-Ground Communities.  The underlying…

Just a week to go till the biggest celebration of BSL storytelling of 2011 or possibly any other year. And it's FREE to attend, whether you're Deaf or hearing, aged 5 or 105.

I have a renewed interest in the countries on the continant of Africa.There is a rich and fascinating history that has not been properly told in the US educational system, but is worth the indept study to learn about a significant part of world history. Please check out this link below: African History

For me this is very important because as the world is making a shift and…

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I wanted to make sure folks in the World Cafe community know about something new NCDD is trying.  I welcome you to participate!

The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) is known for being an open community of innovators who are genuinely interested in working together to increase the impact of dialogue and deliberation.  Today I’d like to announce a new feature on the NCDD website that I hope will make it easier for NCDDers to collaborate:  the “Idea…

The Chilean Open Space Community (CHOSonOS), is honored and grateful to be able to invite all those people in the world, who have experience with facilitating this fabulous method of dialogue and want to deepen their learning and practice, to participate actively in the XIX World Open Space on Open Space (WOSonOS) Chile 2011.

Our main goal is to open the space to answer the following…

Dear all,

After being very quiet in this community for the last year, it is with great pleasure to inform you that after six years I finally finished my PhD research on effective use of Large Scale Interventions (which I see as an approach for whole system change,  including the large group intervention methods such as Future Search, Open Space, World Café, Whole Scale Change/Real Time Strategic Change). So you may call me ‘doctor Tonnie’ now :). The World Café Community…

I would like to introduce myself to World Cafe Community members.

My name is David Gurteen and for the last 15 years or so I have worked as a Knowledge Management educator and facilitator.

I advise clients on their KM strategies and implementation.  I give keynote talks at conferences. I run KM workshops. I facilitate Knowledge Cafes and run Knowledge Cafe masterclasses.

I am the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community - a community of over 17,000…

I am following with interest the online conversation around social content curation.  I recently hosted two knowledge cafes on customer relationship management (CRM) and social media and decided to curate the content used in Cafe CRM, the content created around the Cafe (tweets and photos) and the collective knowledge created in the Cafe.  I used Storify (storify.com):

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CHANGE THE WORLD! With a few easy clicks right here, you can help to find a cure for blood cancer by donating any amount you like, through June 4th, 2011:

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A warm hello to everybody in the World Cafe Community.!

I know only some of you, but I suspect that many more of you knew Finn and remember him fondly. I'm currently running a fundraising campaign in his memory, to support The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in its mission to find a cure for blood cancer. If you would like to remember Finn by participating in this campaign, please visit the following links and donate whatever you are able. You can also feel free to post to your…

At 12.4.201118:00 I started my first open course "Learning society" (and then every second Thursday). There I plan to try real Cafe Design Principles for thinking together about practical experience of course participants through the lens of Senge's Fifth  disciplines.

I met and experienced Cafe Design Principles on SOL Austria 10th anniversary and subsequently on some meeting with Agota Ruzsa in SOL Hungary.

My first attempt to applicate Cafe Design Principles ended…

Those of you who have been to Axladitsa Avatakia in the Spring, know the beauty of the Nightingales' song.  Last night magic echoed again throughout the rematia.

As Deborah and Meg's book prepares to sing its own unique and vibrant song - with the bestseller campaign tomorrow - April 13th, this excerpt from…

NCDD member Priya Parker, who interned in the White House the…