December Community World Cafe
2018-12-20 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Regular monthly World Cafes for the World Cafe community and friends. You are welcome to join us. Come experience World Cafe in an online environment for yourself.
These World Cafe Community Cafes are free of charge & produced entirely on a volunteer basis. Your financial contributions are warmly invited.
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IMAGINE2019
2018-12-29 - 2019-01-05 | CLUBHOUSE
STARTS DECEMBER 29TH
Two Live Events: 29 December 2018 & 5 January 2019
10:00am – 12:00pm PT | 1:00 – 3:-0 ET | 19:00 – 21:00 CET
Unique video content delivered to your in-box every day from Dec 30 – Jan 4 to support this self-paced adventure.
What if 2019 were your best year yet – a time when everything comes together, when your passion and purpose ignites, when you have the courage to shine and manifest all you can imagine for yourself?
Imagine 2019 is an online event you can join from anywhere in the world, any time of the day. It is designed to create the focus and intention to carry you into the stratosphere while deeply grounding you in your purpose with a healthy root system to nourish your dreams.
This eight-day series will give you the tools to ignite your purpose, create your vision and live your possibilities and potential. We invite you to light up your imagination and warm your spirit at the campfire of community as we step into the new year together – clear, resourced, and with a circle of allies and supporters at our backs.
This is the ideal moment in the year to give yourself the gift of time and intention. Use the alchemy of the season to put a strong foundation under your dreams. And access the power of community to strengthen your resolve, open the doorway, and illuminate the way forward.
Join us for IMAGINE 2019!
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StoryMaking & StoryShaping in a Divided World
2019-01-21 - 2019-02-10 | CLUBHOUSE
A Story the Future Learning Encounter
Jan 21 – Feb 10
10:00 – 12:00 PT / 1:00 – 3:00 EST / 19:00 – 21:00 CET
STF Learning Encounters focus on the “how to” of story. Our narrative change practitioners will share specific practices and techniques — in straightforward “how to” language — that you can begin to apply immediately. If you’ve ever thought, “I’d like to learn how to do this work,” we will show you how!
Each week you will experience a series of free interviews pointing to the different aspects of storymaking and storyshaping. Each interview will be available for the week in which it appears. With an all-access pass, you’ll have access to all the free interviews for an extended period of time, PLUS participate in six real-time skill-building “how to” online workshops in which our faculty of global story practitioners share all of their secrets and best practices with you! Registration is also available for indivdual workshops at $67 each (see registration links below for all the options).

Join us for all of them, or as many as you like!
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The Art of Evaluation in Complexity
2019-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Tuesdays, February 5, 12, 19, 26
10am – 12pm Pacific Time | 1 – 3pm Eastern Time
The Art of Evaluation is a four-session online course to support leaders and facilitators in better understanding evaluation and why it matters. This course will increase your evaluation literacy and enable you to make better strategic decisions, building in the right kind of evaluation right from your initial design phase. It’s also a course for evaluators who want to learn how to work with the increasing number of practitioners working with new forms of facilitation and engagement.
Hosted by Beehive Productions (Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen) and Chris Corrigan, with special guests Trilby Smith, Jara Dean-Coffey, Rita Fierro, & Carolyn Camman.
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Evaluation in Complexity Open Space
2019-03-26 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Following the successful four-session online series on Evaluation in Complexity, Amy Lenzo, Rowan Simonsen and Chris Corrigan are hosting open space for further exploration.
Come Join Us!

Leaning in to Conflict
2019-04-02 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
With Rowan Simonsen, Nina Nisar and Jay Rothman
How do we build capacity to be with conflict in creative and generative ways, with kindness and courage at the center?
How can we be and work with the intensity and creative potential of complexity, confusion, and difference?
What are we learning about working in the liminal space between conflict and collaboration?
Conflict like fire can burn, illuminate or transform, depending on HOW we handle it. In this course we explore how to lean in to the fire of conflict and work with it, and each other, with greater skill, respect and care. Leaning in to conflict – including the pain and confusion that often accompany it – and staying with it, can help us learn and connect more deeply with ourselves and each other.

We invite you to join this exploration and deepening practice of creative conflict engagement that can help us collaborate better, improve OUR relationships and ultimately make peace with conflict.

The Practical Magic of Online Hosting: Presence, Relationship, Technology & Design
2019-04-22 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Six Mondays – April 22, April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20 & May 27th
10am – 12pm Pacific Time | 1 – 3pm Eastern Time | 7 – 9 Central European Time
Join us for Amy & FireHawk’s latest and greatest Online Hosting course. This is a very special time to do this training as we are featuring a new LMS format AND a private community forum AND an additional FREE “Flex” training ($149 value): Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and FireHawk Hulin
Come join us and discover for yourself what it takes to bring your hosting work online – authentically, confidently, and effectively.
For More Information & Registration

The World Cafe Training in Athens
2019-06-15 10:00 - 2019-06-16 17:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Athens, Greece
How can The World Café change my personal practice, organization or community?
In Greece, Art of Hosting Athina has been offering the Art of Participatory Leadership Trainings for the past eight years, bringing a new form of leadership where collaboration and participation open new possibilities.
AoHAthina, in partnership with Amy Lenzo and The World Café are bringing this two-day training to Greece so that people can learn how this simple yet powerful approach can bring change to personal practice, organisations and communities. We invite, teachers, managers, social entrepreneurs, people working in companies, civil society organisations, civil servants, students, etc. to join us in this participative and experiential training. The training aims at providing you with the foundational aspects so that you can apply the World Café in different contexts and for different purposes.
Saturday, June 15th from 10am to 6pm
Sunday, 16 June 2019 from 10am – 5:30pm
Coffee, Tea, and Refreshments Included
(You will be responsible for your own lunch)
TO REGISTER

World Cafe Book Translation Celebration
2019-06-16 18:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Athens, Greece
The World Café Hellas Group has been practicing and translating The World Café book, recognizing that through Collaborative Leadership, we can bring generative change to how our companies, organisations, schools, etc. A community of practice is emerging, calling in new practices that shift leadership from the individual or hero to the collective.
Join us for a FREE World Cafe to celebrate our achievement and learn more about how to support the book and World Cafe practice in Greece.
Let us know if you are planning to join us & we’ll give you details about the venue and anything else you need to know.

World Cafe Hybrid Community Day - Online & Onsite near Frankfurt
2019-06-25 09:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Thiiird Place, Oberursel, Germany & Online, Oberursel, Germany
We are thrilled to invite you to a World Café Community Day to share key insights and learnings, reinforce the core elements of the World Café and create an opportunity to connect across Europe in a hybrid format (online & onsite).
Join Amy Lenzo and Sabine Soeder and the CoCreativeFlow team on the ground in Frankfurt for a deep and wonderful exploration of what creates the “magic in the middle” of World Cafe. Contribute to the World Cafe community of practice in Germany and beyond!

Engaging the Magic in the Middle
2019-07-13 10:00 - 2019-07-15 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Belgium, Belgium
What does it take to create the space during a World Cafe in which the “Magic in the Middle” (as World Cafe pioneer Finn Voldtofte called it) can show up?
In this Learning Retreat, using music, arts and multi-generational engagement, we will go back to the roots of the World Cafe design principles – and beyond – to see what we can find out…
When:
Saturday, July 14: 10 am – 9 pm
Sunday, July 15: 10 am – 9 pm
Monday, July 16: 10 am – 4 pm
Where:
We will gather at the Baarbeekhoeve – a beautiful organic farm in the Belgian countryside with an amazing newly built meeting space. Easily reachable by public transport (6 min by train from Mechelen to Muizen; 35 min by train from Brussels) or by car.
We’ll enjoy organic meals, literally “from farm to table”. Drinks and snacks during breaks, lunch and dinner are all included in your participation fee.

Monthly Online Community World Cafe
2019-07-17 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Regular monthly World Cafes for the World Cafe community and friends. You are welcome to join us – come experience an online World Cafe for yourself.
These World Cafe Community Cafes are free of charge & produced entirely on a volunteer basis. Your financial contributions are warmly invited.
The next one is August 14th.
REGISTER FOR IT NOW

Origin Stories with Peter Senge
2019-08-26 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
A new series by Beehive Productions – Origin Stories
Peter Senge, MIT senior lecturer and founding chair of SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, author of numerous books lincluding The Fifth Discipline, and co-author of Presence: Human Promise and the Field of the Future with Otto Scharmer has a remarkable story to tell, as you might imagine.
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World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals
2019-09-08 09:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
This rigorous, highly interactive 8-week online course is designed for serious practitioners who are looking for a solid understanding of the World Café method and philosophy, and want to work with their peers, guided by senior practitioners to learn how to host powerful and effective World Cafés.
Regular “real time” Study Groups and assignments using state-of-the-art distance learning forums in the World Cafe format.
Saturday, September 14th – Opening Session – 9 – 11am Pacific Time
Wednesday, October 9th – Online World Cafe – 10 – 12:30am Pacific Time
Saturdays, September 21st, October 5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th – Real-Time Study Groups – 10 – 11:30am Pacific Time
Saturday, November 2nd – Closing Session 9 – 11am Pacific Time
Course fee includes required reading materials in e-format: The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter, The World Cafe: Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter, and The Art of Powerful Questions.
A Signature World Cafe Learning Program
Offered in partnership with the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University
Instructor: Director of World Cafe Signature Learning Programs, Adjunct Faculty member at Fielding Graduate Institute, and Senior World Cafe host, Amy Lenzo
Costs:
$800/$750 EARLY BIRD (ends Aug 19th)
$650 / $600 Fielding Alumni
Registration closes September 3rd
(a $50 administrative late fee will be charged for registrations accepted after this date)

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The Art of Questions
2019-09-17 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Three Tuesdays: September 17th, 24th, & October 1st.
10am – 12am Pacific Time | 1-3 Eastern Time | 7 – 9pm CET
$250 (see registration for alternative fees)
GROUP DISCOUNT: Groups of 3 or more 30% OFF
Hosted by Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen
with SPECIAL GUESTS Marilee Adams, Diana Whitney & Bob Stilger
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Developmental Evaluation
2019-10-16 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
A Beehive Productions Course
Wednesdays
ONLINE
October 16th, 23rd, 30th, & November 6th
10.00- 12.00 AM Pacific Time
19:00 – 21:00 Central European Time
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen with Carolyn Camman and Rita Fierro
Following on and deepening the work of the course we offered earlier this year, Evaluation in Complexity, Developmental Evaluation focuses on evaluation that best measures the kind of work we as participatory practitioners are doing.
If you need to know what kind of impact you are making, this course is for you.
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Learning Together: Deeper Levels of Knowing
2020-01-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
A World Cafe Live! Event
January 21st, 2019
10am – 12:30pm Pacific Time
(use a time zone converter for local time in your area)
Join us for an interactive collective inquiry into the heart of learning.
With David Isaacs, Carol Gorelick and Bruce Noll.
By Donation
This event is free to Community Table Subscribers
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Origin Call with Harrison Owen
2020-01-22 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
You are warmly invited to join Beehive Productions hosts Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen for our next Origin Call with Harrison Owen.
In these Origin Calls, Beehive invites elders in the Central Garden to share some of their first discoveries on their journey as an invitation to conversation about what we are all seeing together. In this way, all of us in the Central Garden are connecting to our lineage and future potential. These calls are available free to all, but you must register to participate. Recordings of previous calls in the series are also available.
Harrison Owen
Founder, Open Space Technology
Harrison offers us a peek into the most natural and essential human behaviors – self organization. Reminding us that we know how to be together, to collaborate and make stuff happen, with the support of simple, basic structures.
By giving voice and visibility to Open Space Technology, Harrison has offered all of us a pattern and practice for engaging each other in what matters to us in a spirited manner, balancing just enough order with just enough chaos.
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Transforming Limiting Beliefs
2020-01-28 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
A Beehive Productions course
with Caitlin Frost
Four Tuesdays: Jan 28th, Feb 4th, Feb 11, & 18th
ONLINE
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
(use a time zone converter for local time in your area)
30% off for groups of 3 and Community Table Subscribers
For More Information & Registration
The important and often challenging work of meaningful dialogue, collaboration, and change-making calls on us to engage ourselves with rigorous and compassionate personal practice. It is both an opportunity and a responsibility for us to look closely at our own limiting beliefs and patterns in order to learn with humility, amplify our potential for positive contribution and shift the negative impact we can sometimes have, even if it is not intentional. Self-inquiry based personal practice can also provide us with valuable insights for our learning, growth, and wellbeing.

Monthly Online Community World Cafe
2020-02-10 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Regular monthly World Cafes for the World Cafe community and friends. You are welcome to join us – come experience the extraordinary experience of an online World Cafe for yourself.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo, Michaela Sieh, and Apprentice World Cafe hosts.
These World Cafe Community Cafes are free of charge & produced entirely on a volunteer basis. Your financial contributions are warmly invited.
All Community World Cafes are 2.5 hours, from 10am – 12:30pm Pacific Time | 19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
(Use a Time Zone Converter to find the local time in your area.)
February 10th – REGISTER NOW

Hosting and Facilitating: Similarities, Differences and Applications
2020-02-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
A World Cafe Signature Learning Program Module
with Frances Baldwin & Amy Lenzo
ONLINE
Thursday, February 13th, 2019
10am – 12pm Pacific Time / 3 – 5 Eastern Time / 19:00 – 21:00 Central European Time
30% Off for Beehive Productions & Community Table Subscribers
(contact us for promo codes)
For More Information & Registration

Neurodiversity in the Workplace: Is it the Next Frontier in Diversity?
2020-02-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
A World Cafe Live! event, sponsored by the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI) and The World Café Community Foundation.
Join us for this interactive World Café featuring Khalil Smith, VP of Consulting, NLI, interviewed by Tracey France, EEO & Diversity Manager for the Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Friday, February 21st
10:00 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time / 1:00 – 3:30pm Eastern Time / 19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
By Donation $5 – $30
Free to Community Table Subscribers

Hosted by Amy Lenzo & Michaela Sieh
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Hosting in Complexity
2020-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Complexity-informed Principles and Practices for Group Facilitation and Participatory Process
With Chris Corrigan
A Beehive Productions Training
Tuesdays, February 25th, March 3rd, 10th, & 17th

10am – 12pm Pacific Time
(use a time zone converter for local times in your area)
$300
30% discount for groups of 3 or more, and for Community Table Subscribers
(contact us for promo codes – if you are a group, please include names and email addresses of everyone in your group)
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Complex facilitation for addressing complex issues requires a special approach to working with groups. In the language of the Art of Hosting Conversation that Matter, we call this approach “hosting” to signify that it has its primary focus on the spaces and processes that we use to host dialogue rather than a more traditional facilitation approach that manages the content, meaning-making, and dynamics.
This approach is defined by a focus on the two key outcomes: emergence of meaning and self-organization for action.
Chris Corrigan will share his insights of 15 years of trying to figure this all out sharing his current clarity that comes down to a simple set of underlying principles that have been deeply influenced by the work of Dave Snowden and Glenda Eoyang.

March Community World Café
2020-03-12 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Thursday, March 12, 2020
10 am – 12.30 pm California | 1 pm – 3.30 pm Boston | 7 pm – 9.30 pm Paris
(use a Time Zone Converter for local time in your area)

This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series hosted every month with and for the World Café community and the wider “central garden” of participatory practitioners.
These Community Cafes offer us an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community.
Fee by Donation: $5 – $30
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

ProAction Cafe on the Future of Democracy
2020-03-24 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
With Rainer von Leoprechting
If Democracy is today as broken as it seems to be, what needs to be hosted so it can begin to heal?
Bring your projects, initiatives and ambitions.
In these times, it’s appropriate to be bold. Democracy is only one of those big social systems that are in crisis and might need to be completely revamped and re-started again, but it’s a significant one.
What are the next elegant steps?
Let’s meet and find out! One initiative at a time. Bring your projects to the conversation. Get strength and inspiration from dialogue with others, and take fresh, elegant, actions home with you for your own next steps.
We look forward to seeing you there!
A World Cafe Live! Event
FREE to Community Table subscribers

REGISTER HERE

Your Hosts
Rainer von Leoprechting, Michaela Sieh and Amy Lenzo

Origin Stories with Meg Wheatley
2020-03-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
Beehive Productions believes that knowing the lineage and history of the key people and practices in the Central Garden is core to evolving our practices … from this idea, the Origin Story calls evolved, featuring stories from key members of our field’s shared origins, and where they see the field evolving.
This call features Meg Wheatley, founder of the Berkana Institute and a seminal figure in launching both World Cafe and the Art of Hosting. Meg is the author of dozens of books on core topics of importance to our field, including Turning to One Another, Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way, and Walk Out, Walk On.
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
(Free to Community Table Subscribers)
HOSTED BY
Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen
Beehive Productions

A Grounded Response to Online Engagement (REAL-TIME INTENSIVE)
2020-04-13 10:00 - 2020-04-17 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
The art of staying grounded while responding to the urgency of the current need for meaningful and effective online engagement …

As we find ourselves adapting to a new reality, finding alternative ways to socialize, do our work, and stay in contact with loved ones near and far, many of us are going beyond the initial panicked rush to find fast solutions and starting to realize the incredible potential of working online.
How we meet and host each other online is more important now than ever, whether the groups we are hosting are large or small. It can be a deeply meaningful experience or it can be very frustrating. This intensive is designed to minimize the frustration and maximize the value of our online engagements.
TWO SESSIONS A DAY FOR THREE DAYS
MONDAY APRIL 13, WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 & FRIDAY APRIL 17
10 am – 12 pm San Francisco
1 – 3 pm New York
19:00 – 21:00 Paris
&
3 – 5 pm San Francisco
7 – 9 am (the next day) Tokyo
8 – 10 am (the next day) Sydney
$425
30 % discount for groups of 3 or more
(contact us with names and emails for code)
As always, if finances are a challenge for you,
please contact us & together we will find a creative solution.
For more information & registration …

Hosted by Beehive Productions – Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen

Belonging in the Age of Quarantine
2020-04-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
In this unique – yet shared – experience of social distancing and quarantine, we invite time to reflect on our personal and collective humanity and sense of belonging…

How has your sense of belonging shifted in these times?

Who do you belong to? Where do you belong now?
Who do we belong to? Where do we belong now?

And how will our new sense of belonging impact us, our families, communities, and the world?

We look forward to seeing you there!
A World Cafe Live! Event
FREE to Community Table subscribers

REGISTER HERE

Your Hosts
Amy Lenzo, Lina Cramer, and Michaela Sieh

World Cafe Online
2020-06-15 10:00 - 2020-06-19 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
WORLD CAFE ONLINE
Hosted by Amy Lenzo & Michaela Sieh
Three Real-Time Online Sessions:
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
June 15th, 17th & 19th
10 – 12:30 Pacific Time / 7 – 9:30 CET
Unlock the secrets of hosting World Cafe online.
Join us for the first in a series of online learning intensives offered by the World Cafe Community Foundation. This series is designed to make the particular skills of hosting different participatory engagement processes online easily accessible & learnable.
For hosts with onsite experience in the modality presented and want to take their work online.
We start with World Cafe, one of the most popular and versatile methodologies, which has incidentally been hosted online successfully for over a decade.
In three 2.5 hour real-time online sessions, we will cover:

Monday, June 15th: An Overview of Online Hosting

The basics of what you need to know about hosting online – what’s different and what’s the same.

Wednesday, June 17th: World Cafe Online – Process Hosting

Experience how to host the intimacy and scale that characterizes World Cafe, in an online environment.

Friday, June 19th: World Cafe Online – Tech Hosting

Learn the specific skills of what happens “behind the scenes” to support a seamless World Cafe experience for participants.

REGISTER NOW
Only $200 US
30% off for groups of 3 or more
(contact us with your group names & email addresses
for the discount code)

A Week for Women
2020-06-22 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CLUBHOUSE
JUNE 22nd, 24th, & 26th
Two Sessions Each Day:
10am – 12pm San Francisco
12 – 2pm Chicago
7 – 9pm Berlin
&
3 – 5pm San Francisco
6 – 8pm New York
8 – 10am (next day) Sydney
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Gift yourself a week of resourceful, deeply nourishing, reinforcing and empowering support.
As women, we are so often asked to give, especially in these times when we are caring for so much and so many. A Week for Women will turn the tables and give something very important back to YOU.
Six well-hosted real-time sessions with the FER Team and five of our amazing Torchbearers. Receive gifts from a diverse circle of women and content specially chosen to serve you and your needs, now. Join us when you can, and watch the video recordings of the sessions you can’t make at your leisure.
Take this time with your best friends:
Groups of 3 or more: 30% off
(That’s more than $100 per person! Write to us with the names & email addresses of the women in your group & we’ll send you the special discount code)
(We know these are crazy times, and if finances are holding you back, be in touch and we will do what we can to make it work for you)
