When
10:30 - 12:30 on Sept. 7th Malaysia time
11:30 - 13:30 pm on September 7th Japan time
19:30 - 21:30 pm on September 6th Pacific time
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Where
Online using Zoom
You will be given the link upon registration
Contact Your Online Host:
Amy Lenzo
amy@wedialogue.com
Join us online for this exciting hybrid session at
the IAF 2019 conference in Kuala Lumpur!
Three experienced facilitators will co-host Hybrid Online World Cafe at 2019 IAF Asia Conference in Kuala Lumpur. We will be working in multiple times zones around the world (see the sidebar).
This session will use leading-edge technology to connect groups onsite and online in meaningful conversation based on the well-known and highly regarded World Cafe methodology. You can participate in this World Cafe conversation online from wherever you are in the world - all you need is an Internet connection and registration.
Please join us!
If you want to join us onsite, please register through the IAF conference site.
BACKGROUND
For a long time, facilitators have been operating in time and physical space only. But thanks to present-day technological advancements, we now have a wide range of low-cost and easy-to-use video conferencing systems, high-speed reliable network connections, and a multiplicity of communication platforms to keep connected.
These new developments open up new opportunities and challenges for global facilitators. Now we can make use of these technologies to enhance collaborations across borders. In other words, we find ourselves expected to provide services in the new environment where our "physical" and "virtual" spaces are seamlessly connected. We find we have to obtain a new set of skills to effectively facilitate virtual events and processes.
In this session, we will hear stories from three experienced online facilitators about how they are using the new technologies in their work, and together explore opportunities for using new infrastructure and technology to accelerate global collaboration and create new connects between communities. We will also talk about some of the challenges that we face in this new environment, and invite strategies for meeting them successfully.
PROGRAM
- An Introduction by Kazuaki Katori
- StoryTelling by Amy Lenzo, Masato Tahara and Kazu Katori
- Q&A on the content of the stories
- A hybrid mini World Cafe, including two rounds of small group conversation and a harvest.
- Closing
Your Hosts
Kazuaki Katori
Mindechoe
Kazuaki Katori ia an OD consultant and experienced facilitator. During his 40 years business career in telecommunications company, he experienced various top management positions. He is an author of several books on the World Cafe and other workshop metrics and facilitation (all in Japanese language) He also translated and published 'The World Cafe'(Juanita Brown, David Isaacs) and 'Future Search' (Marv Weisbord, Sandra Janoff). He presented concurrent sessions at IAF Seoul(2010), Shenzhen(2012), Singapore(2014), Mumbai(2015), Hualien(2016), Seoul(2017), and pre-conference session at Singapore(2014), Hualien(2016), Seoul(2017), Osaka(2018), post-conference session at Mumbai(2015)
Amy Lenzo
weDialogue /The World Cafe
Amy Lenzo has been hosting online engagement for well over a decade with some of the most influential thinkers and social-change agents of our times. A pioneer in her field, Amy is passionate about online interaction that can re-connect people to their senses, each other, the natural world, and the sacredness of all Life. She is an experienced World Café practitioner & director of The World Café Signature Learning Programs, as well as the author of “The Art of Online Hosting”, published by The Systems Thinker (March 2011).
Masato Tahara
Kumaneko Education System, Pte.Ltd
Masato Tahara has focused on online education of physics for 10 years and started an online community for educators “Flipped Class Study Group” 3 years ago. Facilitation is one of the important topics in our community, because the teacher's roll changes to facilitator in the flipped classroom. To improve flipped learning method, they have online workshops and online world cafe for several sessions. Tahara has published “Have fun studying High School Physics by understanding Differential Calculus” and other 9 science books for high school students and university students.