Welcome to the Learning Community World Cafe

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Welcome to the Learning CommunityWorld Cafe

• Since our earliest ancestors gathered in circles
  around the warmth of a fire, conversation has
  been our primary means for discovering what we
  care about, sharing knowledge, imagining the
  future, and acting together to both survive and
  thrive.
• Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, The World Cafe

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If you want to change the culture Change
the conversation -Peter Block
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The World Cafe

• Living networks of conversations lie at the heart
  of our capacity as human community to create the
  futures we want rather than being forced to live
  with the futures we get
• - Juanita Brown
• Originator of The World Cafe

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The World Cafe
Learn more at www.theworldcafe.com
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Café Assumptions Needed knowledge and wisdom is
already present. Collective insight evolves
from.. honoring unique contributions connecting
ideas listening into the middle noticing deeper
themes and questions Intelligences emerges from
diverse and creative connections
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Cafe Conversation Can Build an Open Space or
Marketplace of Conversations Or An Agenda for
Action
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CIRCL SLS Gathering Market Place
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Im a table host, what do I do?

• Welcome everyone and have them introduce
  themselves BRIEFLY.
• Pose the Question for the round of conversation.
• Remind people at your table to jot down, doodle,
  draw, key connections, ideas, discoveries, and
  deeper questions as they emerge.

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Im a table host, what do I do?

• Remain at the table when others leave and welcome
  travelers from other tables.
• Briefly share key insights from the prior
  conversation so other can link and build using
  ideas from their respective tables. Introduce
  the new question
• Encourage everyones contribution but encourage
  the contributions to be brief so everyone can
  contribute.
• Use the dialogue stone to promote listening.

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Three Questions and Three Rounds15 Minutes per
Question2 Minutes to Move
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Move CloserStay Longerby Dtr. Stephanie
Burns The nature of fear and the development
of bravery
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Invite the Stranger - Invite Diversity

• Two separate raindrops on the window
• pushed by the wind,
• merged into one for a moment
• and then divided again,
• each carrying with it a part of the other,
• we never touch people so lightly that we do not
  leave a trace.
• By Peggy Tabor Millin
• From Gracious Space, by Patricia M. Hughes

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• What do we know so far/still need to learn about
  assisting youth and adults to create meaningful
  lives respecting their dreams and aspirations?

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• What is the next level of thinking we need to do
  together to assist individuals in reaching their
  dreams and aspirations?
• If there was one thing that hasnt yet been said
  in order to reach a deeper understanding/clarity
  about meaningful lives, what would that be?

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If our success was completely guaranteed, what
bold steps might we choose.?
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Round of Sharing to come up with two Themes per
table
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Round of Sharing from theTable
HostsThemesshared and recorded
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How Did You Like the World Café?

• What Went Well?
• What Could Have Been Better?