Recently I hosted a course with Holger Scholz and Jan Buckenmayer of Kommunikatslotsen called Online Hosting Now: Collective Wisdom in the Digital Realm. My dear friend and colleague Alan Briskin, co-author of The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly, was our … Read More
5 Spheres of Sharing Collective Discoveries
One of the seven design principles of World Café practice – “Share Collective Discoveries” – really has my attention lately… I imagine this principle, sometimes referred to in practice as “harvesting”, as having several levels, or spheres. These spheres are not hierarchical or even concentric; … Read More
Finn Voldtofte & The Magic in the Middle
Finn Voldtofte was one of the co-founders of the World Cafe. After the break-through experience that birthed this important dialogic process at the home of Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, Finn and Juanita did the painstaking work of researching and experimental testing to see if … Read More
