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Cafe Harvesting through Story-Making

I recently completed an inter-generational, intra-regional story weaving project in Lebanon, which embodied various social technologies, including the U, Appreciative Inquiry and the World Cafe. One of the core design intentions was to collect the harvests of the cafe through a collective story-making process.



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The initiative “Our shared community story” is a process of engagement,… Continue

Added by Hala Makarem on June 24, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Alternately: Do David Bohm style Dialogue

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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Added by Franis Engel on June 19, 2010 at 3:09am — 1 Comment

Spontaneous Remission of Collective Insanity

(Reprint from http://www.goodtherapy.org, June 2010 and also at http://www.focalizing.com/media/Spontaneous_Remission.pdf)



Insanity, it has been said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This is what appears to be happening globally as the evolution of humanity is…

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Added by Dr. Michael Picucci on June 9, 2010 at 10:16am — No Comments

World Cafe; Harvest

In a not so recent World Cafe, Knowmads was honored to have as a special guest/host/learning sojourner Pieter Ploeg a.k.a.…
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Added by Brock LeMieux on June 6, 2010 at 2:04pm — No Comments

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