Significant Stories
2022-09-07 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
Seven sessions:
Wednesday, September 7th
Monday, September 19
Wednesday, September 28
Wednesday, October 5
Thursday, October 13
Wednesday, October 19
10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
ONLINE
Hosted by Amy Lenzo & Mary Alice Arthur
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What if you could change how the world sees you? With five SIGNIFICANT STORIES, you can!
That’s right — out of all the thousands of stories that make up your life, just five are so key that they are the foundation for your future.
These are the stories we’ll be working with in SIGNIFICANT STORIES.
SIGNIFICANT STORIES is a full learning experience around the power of storytelling, guided by Mary Alice Arthur and Amy Lenzo.
We meet online for seven sessions to create the foundation and the structure for bringing your stories to life. In small group peer circles, you’ll have the opportunity to refine your stories. With input from us live in the online sessions, and an opportunity to get support on our platform from the whole group, you’ll get the feedback you want and the courage you need to make them count.
More information and a link to Register
30% Discount for groups of 3 or more
Other Discounts available (details in the link above)

World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals 2022
2022-09-10 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The long-awaited once-a-year Signature World Cafe Learning Program is now open for registration!
REVISED & UPDATED WITH NEW CONTENT
September 10th – November 5th
ONLINE
8 weeks of rigorous peer-learning in a World Cafe format
Real-Time sessions every Saturday (except October 15th)
9 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
12 – 2:30 Eastern Time
18: – 20:30 Central European Time
Check a Time Zone Converter for Local Time in your area
$800
$100 off for Early Bird Registrations (before August 23rd)
30% off for Groups of 3 or more & Community Table Subscribers
Limited Scholarships Available

MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
HOSTED BY AMY LENZO
An official Signature Learning Program
Offered by the World Cafe Community Foundation

Transforming Power and Privilege
2022-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
An Exploration into Transforming Power & Privilege
Two Thursdays & Two Fridays: September 15th, 16th, 29th, & 30th
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
1 – 3pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21.00 Central European Time
ONLINE
COST
$350
(30% Discount for groups of 3 or more)
Contact us with names & email addresses for your group discount code
[Community Table subscribers – see the Community Table Calendar for your discount code]
How do we work wisely with power to ensure that the seeds of our collective insights can grow into strong actions?
Anywhere we show up, we step into an often invisible field of interconnectedness, where power has had a role in shaping the fabric of our relationships.
We invite you to explore the nature of power and how you use it through a lens partly rooted in First Nation cultural concepts, practicing Depth, Courage, Vision & Joy as strategies for transforming the way we engage in our meetings, organizations, and social movements.
HOSTED BY
Chris Corrigan
Kelly Porier
& Beehive Productions (Amy Lenzo & Rowan Simonsen)

FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Awakening Collaborative Wisdom
2022-09-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, August 21st, 2022
10 – 12:30 Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 Eastern Time | 7 – 9:30 Central European Time
ONLINE
Join the next gathering of our growing global community of practice and engage in an inquiry free from any agenda other than birthing emergent Awareness. Through a series of small group conversations, grounded in authenticity, shared learning, and heart, you will witness wisdom revealing itself through (and to) all, ultimately showering the garden of life.
Bring your curiosity, playfulness, and receptivity to a field where people can share from the heart. Please consider inviting a friend to our awakening and emerging inquiry.
Your hosts – David Isaacs, Carol Gorelick, Bruce Noll, Greta Anderson, Gordon Brode, Andrew Mackenzie, and the team from the World Café Community Foundation Amy Lenzo, Michaela Sieh, and Viola Clark – look forward to welcoming you.
This conversation is one in an ongoing program of gatherings – You’re invited to be part of this exploration into our collective capacity to awaken collaborative wisdom at deeper and deeper levels.
REGISTER NOW!
(sliding scale to everyone – free for Community Table Subscribers – see the Community Table Calendar for the code)

September Community World Cafe
2022-09-21 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.
Wednesday, September 21 st
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

Asia Pacific September Community Cafe
2022-09-27 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.
The World Cafe now offers monthly Community World Cafes in an Asia Pacific time zone:
Wednesday, September 28th
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 11 – 1:30 in Beijing |
12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30pm Wellington
Tuesday, September 27th 8:00 – 10:30pm Pacific Time
ONLINE
(in English)
Fee: Sliding scale. Let us know if the cost is a challenge. These Community Cafes are for everyone, and always free to Community Table subscribers: please use the code that you will find in the Community Table calendar.
More information & Registration

October Community World Cafe
2022-10-12 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.
Wednesday, October 12th
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

Asia Pacific October Community Cafe
2022-10-24 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The World Cafe now offers monthly Community World Cafes in an Asia Pacific time zone:
Tuesday, October 25th
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 11 – 1:30 in Beijing |
12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30pm Wellington
Monday, October 24th 8:00 – 10:30pm Pacific Time

FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

November Community World Cafe
2022-11-17 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.
Thursday, November 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

Asia Pacific November Community Cafe
2022-11-22 20:00 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The World Cafe now offers monthly Community World Cafes in an Asia Pacific time zone:
Wednesday, November 22th
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 11 – 1:30 in Beijing |
12 – 2:30pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30pm Wellington
Tuesday, November 23rd 8:00 – 10:30pm Pacific Time
FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

December Community World Cafe
2022-12-14 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.
Wednesday, December 14th
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

The Practical Magic of Online Hosting: Evergreen Version
2023-01-01 - 2026-01-01
Discover the practical magic of online hosting! Join us for a powerful six-session online course that you can do at your own pace.
This Evergreen “flex” course will be delivered via video content, reflection, exercises, and a wealth of handouts and other resources to enhance your learning. PLUS: a “real-time” Studio Session on Zoom the first Thursday of every month for integration, connection, and collective engagement with others in this work. Open to all currently enrolled or alumni of either the Practical Magic of Online Hosting or Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting courses.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and FireHawk Hulin
Come join us for a new kind of asynchronous course and discover for yourself what it takes to bring your hosting work online – authentically, confidently, and effectively.
The course is open! You can register at any time. Access to the course materials and real-time participation will remain active for 6 months after your enrollment.
For More Information and Registration
If you want to do this work in tandem with the Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting Flex course, we’re offering a special price for the two together.

Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting: Evergreen Version
2023-01-01 - 2026-01-01
Master the skills of online Tech Hosting! Join us for a powerful eight-session online course that you can do at your own pace.
This Evergreen “flex” course will be delivered via video content, reflection, exercises, and a wealth of handouts and other resources to enhance your learning.
PLUS: a “real-time” Studio Session on Zoom the first Thursday of every month at 10 – 11:30 am Pacific Time for integration, connection, and collective engagement with others in this work. Open to all currently enrolled or alumni of either the Practical Magic of Online Hosting or Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting courses.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and FireHawk Hulin
Discover a new kind of asynchronous course and build the skill-sets, both subtle and direct, that will make you a confident, effective tech host, and an invaluable member of any online hosting team.
The course is open! You can register at any time. Access to the course materials and real-time participation will remain active for 6 months after your enrollment.
More Information and Registration
If you want to do this work in tandem with the Practical Magic of Online Hosting Flex course, Flex course, we’re offering a special price for the two together.

World Cafe Live: GLOBAL BOOK CAFE
2023-08-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Global Book Café:
Night on the Milky Way Train
Saturday, August 26th, 2023
7 – 9:30am Jakarta | 8 – 10:30 am Beijing | 9 – 11:30 am Tokyo
10 am – 12:30 pm in Sydney | 12 – 2:30 pm in Wellington, New Zealand
Friday, August 25th
5:00 – 7:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time
ONLINE
REGISTER NOW
Fee: Sliding Scale $0 – $20
Let us know if the cost is a challenge. World Café Live! is for everyone.

Beyond Facilitation 2003
2023-09-12 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Beyond Facilitation 2003
4 TUESDAYS – SEPT 12 – OCT 3RD
10 – 12:30 Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 Eastern Time 7 – 9:30
Central European Time
$350
$50 Early Bird Discount through August 15
$50 Group Discount (3 or more) & 30% Community Table Discounts apply
Join Amy Lenzo and Mary Alice Arthur in the next step of their groundbreaking “Beyond Facilitation” series.
This year’s 4-week course will focus on the invaluable Four-Fold Practice pattern that guides all extraordinary hosting. Starting with a thorough understanding of the pattern (featuring one of the original designers), the next three sessions will explore its application through the lens of our personal lives, our work in the world, and the systemic collective sphere.
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2024 WORLD CAFE HOSTING FUNDAMENTALS
2024-09-01 09:00 - 2024-10-27 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
2024 WORLD CAFE HOSTING FUNDAMENTALS
SUNDAYS, SEPT 1 – OCT 27TH, 2024
9 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
12 – 2:30 Eastern Time
6 – 8:30 Central European Time
HOSTED BY AMY LENZO
20% OFF EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION THROUGH AUGUST 11
Groups of 3 or more & Community Table Discounts (30%) apply
The 2024 offering of this iconic 8-week course builds on everything we’ve learned in almost two decades of working together each year. Each cohort builds on the accumulated wisdom of the last, and we are very excited to bring that knowledge to bear as we continue to build the depth and breadth of our practice together.
Reinforcing the fundamentals of this exemplary method in our curriculum, we embody the basic understandings that ground the unique contribution World Cafe can make – in your hands, for your own contexts.
Join us!
REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION

Bioneers Book Club
2025-09-02 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Bioneers Book Club
Is A River Alive?
September 2nd & 9th, 2025
10:00 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
REGISTER NOW
Amy has been working with Bioneers for several years now, hosting community conversations, and starting last year she has been hosting a few interactive Book Clubs a year with them – two or three sessions with at least one given over to small group conversation about the book, and one engaging with the author. The books are always wonderful explorations of nature-based topics. In this Book Club, the book we’re focused on is Is A River Alive?, by Rob MacFarlane. Here’s bit more about it:
Blending immersive travel writing with deep cultural inquiry, Is a River Alive? traces three powerful stories of rivers at the heart of legal and planetary transformation. In addition to the book club discussion, join us for an exclusive author session with Robert Macfarlane, one of the most celebrated nature writers of our time, as he shares personal insights into the making of the book, the rivers and people who shaped it, and what it means to write at the confluence of ecology, culture, and imagination.

2025 World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals
2025-09-27 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
SATURDAYS, SEPT 27TH – NOV 22ND, 2025
10 – 12:30 am Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
$850.00
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT – 20% off before AUGUST 16TH
Groups of 3 or more – 30% off
(Contact amy@wedialogue.com with names & email addresses for your group for discount code)
This rigorous 8-week learning program is offered once a year. Join a group of international peers to unlock the secrets and practice the skills that make this acclaimed process work so well in so many different contexts. The course will be hosted this year by senior practitioners Amy Lenzo and Maria Scordialos. We send our warm welcome and invite you to join us!
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Beyond Facilitation 2025
2025-10-27 11:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
BEYOND FACILITATION 2025
MONDAYS, OCTOBER 27TH – NOV 11TH
HOSTED V=BY AMY LENZO & MARY ALICE ARTHUR
There are so many things changing right at the moment, that it can feel we are continually standing on the edge of the unknown. In many places the mood is fearful, conflictual or depressed. Systems, businesses and people are struggling.
We’ve been keeping an eye on some of our close colleagues who are pioneering how to work at the edges and at the intersection of CHAOS and CHAMOS — which is a Greek word for fundamental breakdown. We want to hear and harvest their stories to give us both courage and new perspectives about how to host in these challenging times.
Sharing and harvesting stories of working with challenge and pioneering at the edges is a great practice for times like these.
We will be using the Collective Story Harvest method — which Mary Alice helped create — to work with these stories and to give you a powerful methodology for engaging and involving the people and systems you work with so they can survive and thrive.
It’s time to do things differently. Come and learn from practitioners working at the edge and see how our stories and applied story work can provide a place where we can take shelter from the storm and find understanding and strength with each other. This is how to find the future in the present.
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(30% OFF GROUPS OF 3 OR MORE + WORLD CAFE COMMUNITY TABLE SUBSCRIBERS)

October Community World Cafe for Americas/European Time Zones
2025-10-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
October’s Community World Cafe
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Topic: Celebrating the World Cafe’s Gift to the World
Hosted by Amy Lenzo, Grace Hong, Anne-Claire Frank-Seisay, Samuel Golodne, Malini Srikanth, & Viola Clark

10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time

Cost: $0 – 20
(Community Table Subscribers use the discount code on the Community Table calendar for free access)
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Read more about the whole Breaths of Design series in the World Cafe Calendar – where you can register for the whole year of Community World Cafe, including this one, and get archived recordings and resources from each one.

October Community World Cafe for Asia/Pacific Time Zones
2025-10-30 12:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Tokyo)
October Community Cafe
Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Topic: The Power of Conversation: What World Cafe Brings to Humanity

Hosted by Amy Lenzo, Tommy Oshima, Nami Ishihara, Lam Nguyen, & Akifumi
8:30 – 11am in New Delhi | 10 am – 12:30 pm Jakarta / Bangkok | 11am – 1:30 pm in Beijing | 12 – 2:30 pm in Tokyo | 1 – 3:30 pm in Sydney | 3 – 5:30 pm Wellington
Cost: $0 – 20
(Community Table Subscribers use the discount code on the Community Table calendar for free access)
MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

Read more about the entire Breaths of Design series in the World Cafe Calendar, where you can register for the whole year of Community World Cafe, including this one, and get archived recordings and resources from each one.

ORIGIN & EVOLUTION STORIES
2025-11-04 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Beehive Productions Presents:
ORIGIN & EVOLUTION STORIES
90 Minutes, on the first Tuesday of every month

As part of a thriving community of practice, we at the Beehive believe that knowing our lineage and history as a field is core to our collective evolution. Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for a new series designed to continue to unpack the origins and evolution of the methods and models that shape and inform our work.

FEATURING
Tom Hurley On “Chaordic Stories”
November 4th, 2025
The Chaordic space, path, practice, organizations, lenses and chaordic leadership have been the foundation of how many of us understand complexity, living systems and our work in an ever changing world.

As the previous CEO of the Chaordic Alliance, with VISA founder Dee Hock, Tom consulted widely on the design of purpose-centered, values-based organisations that can thrive in today’s complex, fast-paced world.

REGISTRATION, MORE INFORMATION
(and a link to Subscribe to the whole series)
30% off for World Cafe Community Table Members
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen and Mary Alice Arthur

Dancing in the Field of Collective Wisdom
2026-07-07 10:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
with Alan Briskin
Alan’s books, The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly, and most recently Space is not Empty on the topic of fields, are based on several decades of research, exploring the conditions that foreshadowed the rise of interest in the spiritual dimensions of group intelligence and the power of collaboration in any group process.
REGISTER HERE
This even is part of Beehive Production’s series of Origin and Evolution Stories.
To subscribe for a full year of real-time online sessions and archives of videos and resources for 2+ years of Origin and Origin and Evolution stories, SUBSCRIBE HERE

Embracing the World Cafe Pattern
2026-09-07 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Embracing the World Cafe Pattern:
A 4-Session Introduction
SUNDAYS
SEPTEMBER 6TH – 27TH, 2026
9:00 – 11:30 am Pacific Time
12:00 – 2:30 pm Eastern Time
18:00 – 20:30 Central European Time
(Check a Time Zone Converter for Local Time in Your Area)
$425
(see the information page for available discounts)
The World Cafe invites groups of people, organisations, & communities to co-create a living network through meaningful dialogue that often leads to new insight, collective knowledge and action.
WeDialogue is offering an introductory workshop with Maria Scordialos – four 2.5 hour online sessions – for those who are curious to learn more about The World Cafe – what it is and how to host it well.
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