Think about the elusive quality of "ba" - a Japanese word that describes the generative relational field that exemplifies World Café hosting at its best ... That capacity to deepen our practice or begin it from a solid grounding is what we focus on in the Hosting Fundamentals course we host with Fielding Graduate University each year. Join us for this one, which starts September 10th.

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(Early Bird Discount ends Aug 15th!)
More on our conversation about "ba" 

The World Café is at an important juncture regarding our online community space right now. In order to hear from everyone about their perspective on the options, we have convened several Community Cafes (including one in Spanish) in different time zones for September 11th, 13th, & 14th. Please weigh in, even if you can't make one of the Community Cafés. 

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Join co-hosts Amy Lenzo, Kazuaki Katori and Masato Tahara at the International Association for Facilitators Asia conference on September 3rd (September 2nd in the US), for a hybrid "on the ground" and online World Café conversation about collaboration in the digital age.
Online participation is free but you must register.

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For those of you who are always asking how you can participate in an "on the ground" World Cafe - this is your chance! We will be hosting two World Cafés and an extended Open Space session at this internationally-renowned conference in California, October 21st, 22nd, & 23rd.

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As part of the World Cafe's 20th Anniversary Impact Jamboree we promised to publish a second World Café book - we're thrilled to let you know a FieldBook is indeed on its way - weaving the threads started in the first World Café book into a beautiful fabric of stories, reflections, & insights that have emerged in our last twenty years of making an impact in the world.

If you have a story you haven't yet shared, especially about social change issues like racism, poverty, & human rights, or corporate culture change, please sit down and write it now.

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