World Cafe - June Community Table

"This is not a webinar, please be present here. Just close every other notifications, ringers, so that you can really be here with us." 

We don't record these community cafes, so this will really be an experience.

Please say if you need to leave early.

Virtual table cloth: https://bit.ly/3v9Ds2p

Check-in: Share your name, tell us where your feet touch the ground, and respond to the following question: What’s a gateway you’d like to open for yourself in the next two and a half hours…?

Etiquette: Remember a conversations when you really felt heard.

• Share from your mind and heart.
• Contribute your thinking
• Silence is part of the conversation. Just breathe it in and slow down.
• Have fun! Enjoy yourself in this moment.
• Link and connect ideas, not just in-between the rounds.

Netiquette: Let us lean in.

• This is REAL. We are here as whole beings.
• Be gracious with glitches.
• Leave your emails and mobiles away. Focus your attention and bandwidth.
• Use a talking piece to slow down conversation. "I'm taking the talking piece from the center. I'm putting the piece back in the center." And everybody knows when you start and finish.
• LEAN in, notice subtle cues.
• Invite IMAGINATION.

Gateway: Leading up to, enabling something.

• With roads leading up to or away
• African dirtroad,, architectural, imaginative, 

QUESTION FOR ROUND ONE: Have you experienced World Cafe as a gateway - as a participant or a host? What did the gateway open to?

• Anna Doroshaw: organizational development, 15-month virtual, the things I can do with NPOs to bring people in and keep people together. Physical distance but socially connected. Connection before content.
• Penny Bustamante: draw out stories in a safe space.
• Ana Golodne: as a shy person, I wanna be a part of this, make a difference
• Coming into surprise and faith
• Anna: Did any of the picture resonated with you? At halfway.
• Penny: muddy road - Anna: muck through things. Ana - mud and barn and blue is common, gateway and bridge. 

Question: What is a World Cafe that you are dreaming/wanting/longing to host? What are the gateways that you would like it to open? 

• James Ward: indigenous people around the world, church pastor, what does it mean, encountering in a serious way, Miwok
• Ana L. ages & gender
• Michaele: interfaith
• Khang: peace & agriculture!

Question: What are the gateways you want to open with your work?

• Siobhan Riordan, Wales: taking it online still has alchemy of connection, heart condition preventing offline experience. In July runing 5-week course on mastering online facilitation.  Smudge and only love comes in, this space is protected.
• Michelle Sampaio, Rio: university professors, get students to speak their heart, invite people to their homes

Open Mic:

• Internet gives us space without distance.
• Leisurely space

What patterns are we seeing?

• Connection before content
• Being on the precipice, encouraging for others that this gateway is for you

12:00 - 12:10: Welcome

12:10 - 12:15: Check-in in chat or Gdoc

12:15 - 12:22: Share World Cafe etiquette and netiquette

12:22 - 12:30: Introductory framing "Gateway", Question for Round One, and reminder of talking pieace & breakout instruction. Invite someone to take note on the tablecloth. Read question & send link to tablecloth again. 

12:30 -  12:50: Round One - all had 2 turns

12:32 - 01:15: Round Two, only1 turn

01:17-01:40: Round Three, only 1+ turn

01:40 - 01:50: Open mic

01:50 - 02:00 Patterns you're seeing

02:00 - 02:07: Harvesting

02:07 - 02:15: What are you taking with you as nourishment from this Community Cafe?

02:15 - 02:18: Announcements & Goodbye

Viola Clark - graphic reflector
Ana Golodne - co-host

Story 1: Once I was asked to write a letter to a Dutch royal princess. I felt loss. I didn't even know anybody who could teach me to write this. Yet it mattered a lot that this letter would be good and she would responds. It took a long time to find those cornerstones of context for me to begin.

A new context. Where is the space? What's the intention? Who are the people?

Set context as host (work, family gatherings, etc.)

Create new context with the hosting team, the people who invited us, the participants.

Story 2: 5-star hotel without small tables. Had to use cardboard boxes and papers as tables.

Round One - In what context are you most comfortable? Share some of the different kinds of contexts you have experienced ….

• Table cloth makes a huge difference for our harvester to read. Please find scribe. If that's too hard, it's okay to come back and share.
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Round Two - How have you engaged with context? 

Round Three - Reflecting on your conversations in the first two rounds, what are you noticing about your relationship with “context”?

12:00 - 12:10: Welcome

12:10 - 12:15: Check-in in chat or in our shared treasure chest https://bit.ly/3hCw3Fe

12:15 - 12:22: Share World Cafe etiquette and netiquette

12:22 - 12:30: Introductory framing around "context". 

12:30 -  12:55: Round One. In what context are you most comfortable? Share some of the different kinds of contexts you have experienced ….

12:55 - 01:20: Round Two: How have you engaged with context? 

01:20 - 01:45: Round Three: Reflecting on your conversations in the first two rounds, what are you noticing about your relationship with “context”?

01:45 - 02: : What stayed with you?

GRATITUDE AND WORLD CAFE - SEPT 2ND

Check-in: Share your name, where your feet touch the ground, What makes your heart sing?

Round One - What are you grateful for in your journey with World Cafe?

Self-journaling for 5 mins

Listening to stories of practitioners. The trust that the conversations carry on.

Being so warmly received. Bask in the love and care of people here. I have courage to do my own cafes.

This music. The checkered tablecloth & flowers just made my heart smile.

Learning the research in epistemology and community outreach that lies at the foundation of World Cafe has been eye-opening.

Round One - What does your knowing / your intuition tell you what is next for you in your hosting journey ?

Dyad - 10 minutes for each to share, then 5 to reflect to each other

12:00 - 12:10: Welcome

12:10 - 12:15: Check-in in chat or in our shared treasure chest https://bit.ly/3jt8WOi

12:22 - 12:30: Introductory framing around "gratitude". 

12:30 -  12:40: Round One. 5 mins journaling. What are you grateful for in your journey with World Cafe?

12:40 - 01:10: Round Two: Dyad. What does your knowing / your intuition tell you what is next for you in your hosting journey ?

Original plan: Write a love letter to World Cafe. Updated: One sentence.