weDialogue

Engaging the Magic in the Middle
2020-08-26 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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
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September Open Studio
2020-09-03 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)

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
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* 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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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)

ORIGIN STORIES with David Sibbet
2021-06-11 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
Beehive Productions presents
ORIGIN STORIES
with David Sibbet
June 11th
Working to create more wholeness and less fragmentation in our world, we believe it is important to receive inspiration and new ideas to support this goal, and we feel that equally important as knowledge and inspiration is the lived experience of connecting with others who share our intentions.
At Beehive, we are committed to strengthening our capacity to collaborate and be together more creatively and co-generatively. We see that we are part of a purpose and a movement that is bigger than any of us alone. Bigger than any of our Communities of Practice.
With this in mind we are contributing to a field of practice and connecting practitioners across the world, having conversations that matter and organizing in ways that nurture our relationships to ourselves, each other and the natural world around us.
To support the cultivation of this field we want to connect to the roots and origins of our practices, and explore the ongoing evolution of our field.
Join us for this very special Origin Call with David Sibbet, Founder of the Grove International, on the Origins of Visual Sense-Making.
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Awakening Collaborative Wisdom: Sensing Collective Curiosity
2021-06-23 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
Much of Western culture is driven by establishing what we collectively measure, know, and believe. But what if our schools, organizations, businesses, and governments pivoted to source what we are collectively curious about? Might the collective unconscious hold not just humanity’s shared memory, images, and stories, but deep, collaborative inquiry and untapped curiosity?
This inquiry is for anyone who senses that there is power in the unknown and is willing to trace curiosity back to our source.
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June Digital Sandbox
2021-06-28 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
June Digital Sandbox
June 28th
10 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
ONLINE
Supported by the World Cafe Community Foundation and weDialogue, these monthly digital “play dates” offer a safe space to play with the technical options of platforms like Zoom with peers, especially the options that cannot easily be tested alone. They are an initiative of the World Cafe Community Table and hosted by World Cafe online hosts & tech hosts Anne-Claire Frank Seisay and Maartje de Meer.
These Digital Sandboxes are not classes – though they often focus on a particular topic, they are for people currently hosting World Cafe or other participatory processes online, and/or graduates of the Hosting World Cafe Online program or other online training.
Register Now

Beehive Community Call with Uffe Elbaek
2021-06-29 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
Every month, Beehive hosts a real-time Community Call to enhance our suite of Dynamic FLEX courses, featuring a special guest with experience in a given focus of interest covered by the FLEX courses.
In June our special guest is Danish MP Uffe Elbaek, the visionary leader who founded the Kaospilots, worked with Dee Hock (founder of VISA), and played a pivotal role in connecting early players in the systems thinking and dialogic movements. Uffe has been one of the leaders shepherding Denmark through the last several decades.
Responding to themes drawn from the real-time and FLEX courses offered by Beehive on Chaordic Design, Uffe brings a unique view to this topic based on his many years of practice in a variety of settings. Join us and prepare to leave with a whole new perspective on what it means to design chaordically.
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July Open Studio Session
2021-07-06 10:00 - 2021-07-07 11:30 | ONLINE
FREE for all current and past participants in our evergreen and real-time courses on online hosting and tech hosting – The Practical Magic of Online Hosting, Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting, The Art of Online Hosting, Online Hosting Now!, A Grounded Response to Online Hosting and Hosting World Cafe Online.
These regular monthly Open Studio sessions take place on the first Thursday of each month, and offer a place to practice, ask questions, and connect with a global community of online hosts engaged in a more human (in the best sense of the word) way of being together online. NOTE: This month is an exception to the rule & the Open Studio will be held on Tuesday, July 6th (same time).
This year, in 2021, we are exploring quarterly themes: Jan – March: Space, April – June: Time, July – September: Presence, and October – December: Technology.
Eligible participants must register – registration gives you access not only to each month’s Open Studio session now and going forward, but all the archived recordings and resources from the first session.
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July BIONEERS Community Conversation
2021-07-08 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
BIONEERS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Climate, Justice, Indigenous Actions & Trauma:
Healing One System for Thriving Life
July 8th, 2021
10 am – 12 pm (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 Eriel Deranger, climate justice leader and executive director of Indigenous Climate Action, and our spoken word harvester will be the amazing Jahan Khalighi.
REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION
(weDialogue Community – Use this code for 20% off: CC20)

July Digital Sandbox
2021-07-30 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
July Digital Sandbox
July 30th
10 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
ONLINE
Supported by the World Cafe Community Foundation and weDialogue, these monthly digital “play dates” offer a safe space to play with the technical options of platforms like Zoom with peers, especially the options that cannot easily be tested alone. They are an initiative of the World Cafe Community Table (free to subscribers) and hosted by World Cafe online hosts & tech hosts Anne-Claire Frank Seisay and Maartje de Meer.
These Digital Sandboxes are not classes – though they often focus on a particular topic, they are for people currently hosting World Cafe or other participatory processes online, and/or graduates of the Hosting World Cafe Online program or other online training.
Register Now

August Open Studio Session
2021-08-05 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
FREE for all current and past participants in our evergreen and real-time courses on online hosting and tech hosting – The Practical Magic of Online Hosting, Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting, The Art of Online Hosting, Online Hosting Now!, A Grounded Response to Online Hosting and Hosting World Cafe Online.
These regular monthly Open Studio sessions take place on the first Thursday of each month, and offer a place to practice, ask questions, and connect with a global community of online hosts engaged in a more human (in the best sense of the word) way of being together online.
This year, in 2021, we are exploring quarterly themes: Jan – March: Space, April – June: Time, July – September: Presence, and October – December: Technology.
Eligible participants must register – registration gives you access not only to each month’s Open Studio session now and going forward, but all the archived recordings and resources from the first session.
REGISTER NOW

Bioneers August Community Conversation
2021-08-12 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
Each month, World Cafe hosts Amy Lenzo and David Shaw offer a Community Conversation for the world-renowned Bioneers community.
Each conversation is stimulated by a brief ‘keynote’ or ‘conversation starter’ from a thought leader/luminary, guided by a skilled team, and captured by a creative ’synthesis’ from a talented spoken word or musical artist. These community conversations offer a place to connect with others, as well as engage with and explore ideas in creative ways.
Join us to connect, inspire, and be inspired by the collaborative community of Bioneers.
August’s Conversation Starter is Karla McLaren, speaking on “Cultivating Intentional Communities in Our Workplaces”.
Our Spoken Word Harvester is Jahan Khalighi.
August 12th, 2021
10am – 12noon Pacific Time
1 – 3pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:00 Central European Time
ONLINE
$20 – $30
(Special 20% Discount for the weDialogue Community – use the passcode: [REDACTED]
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

August Community Cafe
2021-08-17 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
This online Community Cafe is part of an ongoing series we host every month with and for the World Cafe community and for the Central Garden of participatory practices.
The monthly online Community Cafes offer us an opportunity to get to know one another, learn from our diversity, and weave the web of our international community. They give us a time to lean in and ask what we need to meet the challenges and celebrations before us, individually and together; a time to listen to others and to speak our truth. A time to remember we are in this together.
Tuesday, August 17th
10 am – 12.30 pm San Francisco | 1 – 3.30 pm New York |
2 – 4.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 7 – 9.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
Fee: Sliding Scale $0 – $20
Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone.
(Always free for Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you’ll find in the Community Table calendar)
More Information and Registration

August Digital Sandbox
2021-08-30 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE
The World Café Community Foundation offers a monthly Digital Sandbox: a safe space to play with the technical options of platforms like Zoom with peers, especially the options that cannot easily be tested alone. I am one of the co-hosts, and heartily invite you to participate.
Our topic for each session will be announced ahead of time; the topics are decided in response to YOUR requests. Let us know what you want to play with!
Monday, August 30
10 am – 11.30 am San Francisco | 1 – 2.30 pm New York |
2 – 3.30 pm Rio de Janeiro | 7 – 8.30 pm Brussels
ONLINE
By Donation – $10 – $20
Free to Community Table Subscribers (see the discount code on the Community Table calendar)
More Information & Registration

September Open Studio
2021-09-02 10:00 - 10:30 | ONLINE
FREE for all current and past participants in our evergreen and real-time courses on online hosting and tech hosting – The Practical Magic of Online Hosting, Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting, The Art of Online Hosting, Online Hosting Now!, A Grounded Response to Online Hosting and Hosting World Cafe Online.
These regular monthly Open Studio sessions take place on the first Thursday of each month, and offer a place to practice, ask questions, and connect with a global community of online hosts engaged in a more human (in the best sense of the word) way of being together online.
This year, in 2021, we are exploring quarterly themes: Jan – March: Space, April – June: Time, July – September: Presence, and October – December: Technology. This session will be the last in the sequence on Presence – Presence – Love Manifest.
Eligible participants must register – registration gives you access not only to each month’s Open Studio session now and going forward, but all the archived recordings and resources from the first session.
REGISTER NOW

Bioneers September Community Conversation
2021-09-09 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE
Each month, World Cafe hosts Amy Lenzo and David Shaw offer a Community Conversation for the world-renowned Bioneers community.
Each conversation is stimulated by a brief ‘keynote’ or ‘conversation starter’ from a thought leader/luminary, guided by a skilled team, and captured by a creative ’synthesis’ from a talented spoken word or musical artist. These community conversations offer a place to connect with others, as well as engage with and explore ideas in creative ways.
Join us to connect, inspire, and be inspired by the collaborative community of Bioneers.
August’s Conversation Starter is Jerry Tello, speaking on “Grandmother’s Teachings: Moving from Trauma to Sacredness“.
Our Spoken Word Harvester is Jason Bayani.
September 9th, 2021
10am – 12noon Pacific Time
1 – 3pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:00 Central European Time
ONLINE
$20 – $30
(Special 20% Discount for the World Cafe Community – use the passcode: [REDACTED]
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
