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
For More Information & Registration

Hosting in Complexity
2020-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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)

Digital SoulCollage:
2020-07-01 01:00 - 01:28 | CLUBHOUSE
SoulCollage is a powerful practice that connects your body, intuition, imagination, and spirit. Designed as a process for self-knowledge and personal guidance, it is also a creative and reflective tonic for today’s busy lifestyles.
This five-session online course was conceived by digital artists and online hosts FireHawk Hulin and Amy Lenzo out of their own deep engagement with soul collage and their excitement about what is possible when we apply the practice and principles of Soul Collage online.
Our process will be guided by SoulCollage magician Laurie Durnell, and FireHawk and Amy will share their knowledge about how to make this simple but profound art “sing” in a digital format. Throughout the five weeks, each of us will have the choice of working with our own issues and questions or receiving direction focusing on a practice of applied earth-wisdom. We will be working with our own images and/or those provided for us. Each session will include both inspirational elements and practical instruction, and you will be encouraged to continue working between sessions.
You will need a computer or tablet and image editing software that we will either provide or make accessible.
PLEASE NOTE: No prior experience is needed in either working online or using image editing software. We are very comfortable with both and will help you become adept and comfortable as well.
DATES
TBA
9:30am – 12pm Pacific Time / 18:30 – 21:00 Central European Time
(use a time zone converter for local time in your area)
COST
$698 (includes image editing software & all necessary materials)
More Details and a link to Register coming soon….

August Open Studio
2020-08-06 10:00 - 11:30 | CLUBHOUSE
For those who are either currently enrolled in one of the Evergreen Online Hosting courses – The Practical Magic of Online Hosting or Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting – and all alumni of either.
These real-time open studio calls offer an opportunity to be in community together and share what we are learning; to ask questions, exchange resources, and practice our skills.
Those who have taken the World Cafe Online and/or Online Hosting Now! courses are also welcome to drop in and continue exploring the art of online hosting with FireHawk and Amy. (Contact us for how to participate if you need help)

August Community Cafe
2020-08-12 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
Wednesday, August 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

Digital SoulCollage
2020-08-15 08:30 - 13:00 | CLUBHOUSE
SoulCollage is a powerful practice that connects your body, intuition, imagination, and spirit. Designed as a process for self-knowledge and personal guidance, it is also a creative and reflective tonic for today’s busy lifestyles.
In advance of our longer, immersive course coming out in 2021, we are excited to announce:
DIGITAL SOULCOLLAGE
A CO-CREATIVE DANCE WITH OUR COLLECTIVE SOUL
Saturday, August 15th
ONE DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP
2 2-hour sessions with a ½ hour break
8:30 – 10:30am & 11:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
11:30am – 1:30pm & 2:00 – 4:00pm Eastern Time
5:30 – 7:30pm & 8 – 10pm Central European Time
PRICE: $76
Limited to 10 participants (8 including FH & Amy)
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
In this one-day workshop, we will unveil the secrets of digital imaging, absorb the fundamentals of the SoulCollage process, and co-create a SoulCollage card in this creative dance with our collective (& individual) soul.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo, FireHawk Hulin and Laurie Durnell

Engaging the Magic in the Middle
2020-08-26 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
This is something extremely special – a combination of celebrating and honouring the contributions of one extraordinary man, and an ongoing inquiry into the nature of collective intelligence that he first sparked over two decades ago.

As co-founder of the World Cafe, a primary contributor to the development of the Art of Hosting and the Flow Game, as well as a leader of the inquiry into collective consciousness – Finn’s is an Origin Story with relevance in many fields.

In this 25th Anniversary year for the World Cafe, we’re offering this event as a way to come together as a “central garden” of participatory practitioners & celebrate Finn’s legacy… all who feel connected to Finn and his inquiry into engaging collective intelligence and the “Magic in the Middle” are welcome!
Engaging the Magic in the Middle
Honoring Finn Voldtofte:
An Ongoing Inquiry into Collective Intelligence
August 26,
10 am – 12.30 pm Pacific Time
ONLINE
By Donation
Hosted by
The World Cafe Community Foundation & Beehive Productions
REGISTER HERE

September Open Studio
2020-09-03 10:00 - 11:30 | CLUBHOUSE

September Community Cafe
2020-09-09 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
Wednesday, September 9th, 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

World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals at Fielding
2020-09-12 10:00 - 12:00 | CLUBHOUSE
If you want to learn the fundamentals of how to host World Cafe, this is the place. A World Cafe Signature Learning Program, this is the ONLY course approved by the World Cafe Community Foundation. So, learn from the source, and ground your practice in the tried and true essentials of this powerful process with others from all over the world.
Produced each year with Fielding Graduate University, using their state-of-the-art distance learning platform, this eight-week Fall semester course is a rigorous, comprehensive, and stimulating exploration of what makes a World Cafe a World Cafe. Augmented by weekly real-time study groups to nurture the relational field and deepen your understanding of the material, this is online learning like you have likely never experienced it before.
World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals
September 12th – November 7th
ONLINE
at Fielding Graduate University*

SPECIAL EARLY BIRD “DISCOUNT” UNTIL AUGUST 19TH
(30% Group Discount for groups of 3 or more at any time)

REGISTRATION CLOSES SEPTEMBER 7TH

MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Hosted by Senior World Cafe Host, and Director of World Cafe Signature Learning Programs, Amy Lenzo
JOIN US!

* This course offers academic & professional credit and Fielding provides certificates of completion on request

October Open Studio
2020-10-01 10:00 - 11:30 | CLUBHOUSE

October Community Cafe
2020-10-07 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
Wednesday, October 7th, 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.
This month we have an additional focus, beyond the topical theme (which will be determined a little closer to the time). Every year one of these Community World Cafes coincides with the World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals course we offer annually at Fielding Graduate University. We make that Community World Cafe a kind of “Teaching Cafe” as part of the course curriculum, giving the students (and everyone else) a bit of a meta-view into the World Cafe format … why we do the things we do, etc.
If that sounds like fun – do join us!
Fee by Donation: $5 – $30
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

November Open Studio
2020-11-05 10:00 - 11:30 | CLUBHOUSE

November Community Cafe
2020-11-11 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
Wednesday, November 11th, 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

December Open Studio
2020-12-03 10:00 - 11:30 | CLUBHOUSE

December Community Cafe
2020-12-09 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
Wednesday, December 9th, 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

Re-Imagining Education: Beyond the Pandemic
2021-04-14 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
Where are we now, living with a global pandemic in all the different ways we are experiencing it in different parts of the world? What can we anticipate or imagine coming next, and in what timeline/s?
How has life on campus changed for students and faculty? What are we learning that might be useful in designing the learning environments of the future?
weDialogue and the World Cafe Community Foundation are excited to be collaborating with Emory University and the Emory Conversation Project for April’s online Community World Cafe. We’ll be joined by Conversation Project coordinators, students, and faculty from Emory, and we hope we’ll be joined by students and faculty from other Universities as well.
This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series weDialogue & the World Cafe Community Foundation host every month with and for the extended World Cafe community.
Fee: A sliding scale is offered. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for all.
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Online Hosting Now! Practices for Spaciousness and Relationship
2021-04-16 09:30 - 12:00 | CLUBHOUSE
DEVELOP YOUR HOSTING CAPACITY TO INVITE & HOLD SPACE FOR BEING HUMAN ONLINE
This is the only “real-time” live learning program I am offering right now among a rich suite of evergreen courses on online hosting and tech hosting. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to work with me and my colleagues at Kommunicatsionsloten, Holger Scholz and Jan Buckenmayer as we explore online hosting now and introduce practices for spaciousness and relationship online.
DATES
Three two and a half hour sessions:
Friday, April 16th
Wednesday, April 21st
Friday, April 30th

TIMES:
9:30 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern Time
18:30 – 21:00 pm Central European Time
Cost: $380 US
25% off for groups of three or more
Current and past registrants of weDialogue’s evergreen courses The Practical Magic of Online Hosting, and Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting are also eligible for the 25% off discount.
Contact Amy for the code.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION

The Story Dojo: A New Era of Storytelling
2021-04-22 09:00 - 10:30 | CLUBHOUSE
April 22
9 – 10:30 am Pacific Time
ON CLUBHOUSE!
People worldwide are pushing the envelope on traditional stories of being human. We know we have run out the end of our old story. What is story now?
Join Amy Lenzo & Mary Alice Arthur on the all-audio social media platform ClubHouse to talk about the power & practice of story and share your own stories of endings and new beginnings.

Beehive Community Call with Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen
2021-04-27 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
Every month, Beehive hosts a real-time Community Call to enhance their suite of Dynamic FLEX courses, featuring a special guest with experience in a given focus of interest covered by the FLEX courses.
In April the special guests are Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen, founders of Beehive Productions. Following on from the real-time course Beehive offered last year at the height of the pandemic-fueled rush to online hosting, A Grounded Response to Online Engagement, Amy & Rowan will share what they have been learning in their practice since then and invite a space of shared learning and engagement.
Join us!
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Beehive Community Call with WindEagle Kinney-Linton
2021-05-25 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
Every month, Beehive hosts a real-time Community Call to enhance their suite of Dynamic FLEX courses, featuring a special guest with experience in a given focus of interest covered by the FLEX courses.
In May the special guest is WindEagle Kinney-Linton, co-founder of Ehama Institute and Earth-Wisdom carrier of the Origin Teachings of the Delicate Lodge. Responding to themes drawn from the real-time and FLEX courses offered by Beehive on The Art of Questions, WindEagle brings a unique and powerfully relevant approach to her topic. Join us, and prepare to experience something new and wonderful; you will leave with a whole new view on questions.
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

June Community World Cafe
2021-06-09 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
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. June’s theme is “World Cafe as Gateway”.
Fee by Donation: $5 – $30
(Offered at no charge for Community Table Subscribers)
By Registration Only

June BIONEERS Community Conversation
2021-06-10 10:00 - 23:30 | ONLINE
BIONEERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
We Wish You Water:
Blue Mind – Reconnecting People with Water for Life
June 10th, 20201
10 – 11:45 am (Pacific Time)
These monthly real-time online Community Conversation conversations are sponsored by Bioneers, the (r)evolutionary environmental/activist/youth/ organization dedicated to social transformation.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo of weDialogue and David Shaw of Santa Cruz Permaculture, these monthly conversations continue a pattern we began by hosting a World Cafe tent at the onsite Bioneers conference for over a decade now and the real-time online conversations we premiered at Bioneer’s online conference last December. Each month of this new series leading up to the 2nd online Bioneers Conference this Fall will feature a special guest “conversation starter” who will focus on a particular topic that we’ll use to guide the conversation. After community engagement in small groups followed by a whole-group harvest, the Community Conversation will be captured in creative verse by a talented spoken word artist.
This month our conversation starter will be Wallace “J” Nichols, speaking on Water and what he calls Blue Mind. Join us and fall in love with water all over agan. Our spoken word harvester will be the amazing Jahan Khalighi.
REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION
(weDialogue Community – Use this code for 20% off: CC20)
