World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals 2022
2022-09-10 09:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | ONLINE
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

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

Beyond Facilitation Asia Pacific: Secrets of Extraordinary Hosting
2022-03-07 19:00 - 2022-03-27 21:30 | ONLINE
The very popular Beyond Facilitation course, offered in an Asia Pacific-Friendly Time
Tuesdays;
March 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th
7:30 – 10am in Mumbai, India (IST)
9 – 11:30am in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (ICT)
10am – 12:30pm in Shanghai, China (CST)
11am – 1:30pm in Tokyo, Japan (JST)
12 – 2:30 pm in Brisbane, Queensland (AEST)
ONLINE
How can we move together through challenge and change and into more collaborative and participatory practice? What does it take to move beyond techniques to become more skillful in hosting groups?
Move into the heart of hosting to deepen your skills, your awareness, and your practice.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn with Art of Hosting Steward and Story Activist, Mary Alice Arthur.
In four 2.5 hour sessions, co-hosted by World Cafe Steward Amy Lenzo and Art of Hosting Steward Mary Alice Authur, Beyond Facilitation is designed for serious participatory practitioners who want to deepen the foundations of their practice.
The first two sessions are based on Mary Alice Arthur’s years of experience with and deep understanding of two priceless gifts developed by the Art of Hosting community for the field of participatory practice – The Fourfold Practice and the Eight Breaths of Process Architecture. Understanding these fundamentals will immediately deepen your practice, no matter what format/s you are using in your hosting practice.
In the last two sessions of Beyond Facilitation, Mary Alice blends leading-edge arts of participatory practice with a deep understanding of narrative, the “secret sauce” of extraordinary hosting. Presenting story and hosting in a unique and highly potent fusion, Mary Alice reveals story as an integral part of working with groups and shows us how to dance with it as one of your most trusted process partners.
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World Cafe Live! Story: The Secret Sauce of Extraordinary Hosting
2022-02-24 10:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE
A World Cafe Live!
February 24th, 2022
10am – 12:30pm Pacific Time | 1 – 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 – 21:30 Central European Time
ONLINE
Sliding Scale
Free for Community Table subscribers
(see Community Table calendar for details)
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Join Art of Hosting Steward and Story Activist Mary Alice Arthur for this extraordinary opportunity to integrate the “secret sauce” of story into your hosting practice.
Hosted by the World Cafe Community Foundation, this is a World Cafe Live! event featuring practitioners within the international community of World Cafe and other participatory practices. We come together to share our passions, inspire and inform each other, and explore – in community.
Marty Alice Arthur is a renowned international host who has integrated her passion for story and narrative into her hosting practice at a deep level.
Join us for this exciting World Cafe to inhabit your own story more fully, and learn more about how to bring story into your hosting practice.
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Mary Alice Arthur
www.getsoaring.com
Mary Alice is a Story Activist working with story in service of positive systemic shift and for focusing collective intelligence on critical issues. She guides people to find and activate the story that will take them into a larger and more authentic future.
With story as an ally, people become the visionary leaders, changemakers, and paradigm shifters they want to be. They know story is our lens on the world and determines our agency. They have the knowledge and tools to change it for the better.

Beyond Facilitation: The Secrets of Extraordinary Hosting
2022-02-16 10:00 - 2022-03-30 12:30 | ONLINE
Every Other Wednesday;
February 16th, March 2nd, 16th, & 30th
10 – 12:30 PT / 1 – 3:30 ET / 7 – 9:30 CET
ONLINE

How can we move together through challenge and change and into more collaborative and participatory practice? What does it take to move beyond techniques to become more skillful in hosting groups?
Move into the heart of hosting to deepen your skills, your awareness, and your practice.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn with Art of Hosting Steward and Story Activist, Mary Alice Arthur.
In four short stand-alone 2.5 hour sessions presented and co-hosted by World Cafe Steward Amy Lenzo of weDialogue, Beyond Facilitation is designed for serious participatory practitioners who want to deepen the foundations of their practice.
The first two sessions are based on Mary Alice Arthur’s years of experience with and deep understanding of two priceless gifts developed by the Art of Hosting community for the field of participatory practice – The Fourfold Practice and the Eight Breaths of Process Architecture. Understanding these fundamentals will immediately deepen your practice, no matter what format/s you are using in your hosting practice..
In the last two sessions of Beyond Facilitation, Mary Alice blends the leading-edge arts of participatory practice with a deep understanding of narrative, the “secret sauce” of extraordinary hosting. Presenting story and hosting in a unique and highly potent fusion, Mary Alice reveals story as an integral part of working with groups and shows us how to dance with it as one of your most trusted process partners.
Choose the whole four-course meal or select individual sessions “a la carte.”
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30% Group Discount for groups of 3 or more
Contact us with names & contact details for your group and we’ll send you the discount code

World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals at Fielding 2021!
2021-09-11 | ONLINE
If you want to learn the fundamentals of how to host World Cafe, this is the place. This World Cafe Signature Learning Program 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 state-of-the-art distance learning platforms, 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 online study groups on Zoom to nurture the relational field and deepen your understanding of the material, this is online learning like you have likely never experienced before.
World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals
September 11th – November 6th
ONLINE
with Fielding Graduate University*
SPECIAL EARLY BIRD “DISCOUNT” UNTIL AUGUST 23RD
(30% Group Discount for groups of 3 or more)
REGISTRATION CLOSES SEPTEMBER 5TH
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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

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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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

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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

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)
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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.

Hosting and Facilitating: Similarities, Differences and Applications
2020-02-13 10:00 - 12:00 | 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)
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The Art of Questions
2019-09-17 10:00 - 12:00 | 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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World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals
2019-09-08 09:00 - 23:00 | 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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Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting
2018-08-30 10:00 - 12:00 | CLUBHOUSE
Announcing the long-awaited companion course to The Art of Online Hosting…
Mastering the Art of Tech Hosting is all about partnering. It’s about being in relationship – with your technology, with the needs of the program design and the hosting team, and with the deeper patterns that support Life (and extraordinary online experiences).
Eight Thursdays – Aug 30th, Sept 6th, Sept 13th & Sept 20th, Sept 27th, Oct 4th, Oct 11th, & Oct 18th
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
ONLINE
The course is primarily for those who want to focus their attention and skills on the technology of online hosting, working in partnership with an online host. But it’s also for online hosts who want to understand what’s “under the hood” for themselves, at an advanced level of proficiency, whether or not they are working with a tech host.
Completing this course will give you a solid grounding in the art and craft of Tech Hosting & the deeper awareness that will allow you to step confidently into in this exciting new field, knowing you are well prepared.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and FireHawk Hulin

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The Art of Online Hosting
2018-08-08 10:00 - 12:00 | CLUBHOUSE
The Art of Online Hosting is designed for those who are called to gather people together across geographic boundaries and host online courses and events that are everything we know they can be – real, engaging, truly interactive & deeply connected.
Four Wednesdays – August 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
ONLINE
The course, experienced in a series of four two-hour online sessions, is both visionary and practical. Visionary in that it awakens new possibilities for how to “be” together in the digital realm, and practical in terms of sharing specific tools and practices that underpin successful online engagements.
We’ll focus on the basics and some of the deeper levels of hosting in the digital realm, using a variety of participatory formats as our entryways – not simply as methods, but as fundamental patterns of engagement.
We will become familiar with the technology of online interaction and together explore how to be fully present and connected – to the collective wisdom in our groups & to the innate wisdom of the earth – as the stance from which we host.
Join us and open the door to a better way to be together online.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and FireHawk Hulin
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Creating Ceremony in the Digital Realm
2018-03-20 10:00 - 12:30 | CLUBHOUSE
Four 2 1/2 hour sessions. Every Tuesday from March 20th to April 10th.
10am to 12:30pm Pacific Time (UTC-8)
Join us in an exploration both practical & visionary as together we learn what it is to imagine, design, & host Ceremony in the digital realm.
The word ceremony comes from the root of an ancient word that means “sacred circle”.
When we gather for ceremony, we are making explicit an underlying truth that all of life is Sacred. As we choose to live into our own unique spiritual practices in the everyday moments of our lives, not just in the temple, on retreat, or in the ashram, we come to embody the notion that “Life is Ceremony”.
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If you really want to be with us for this course but are challenged by the economics, please contact us and let’s talk.

The Art of Online Hosting
2017-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | CLUBHOUSE
The Art of Online Hosting is designed for those who are called to gather people together across geographic boundaries and host online courses and events that are everything we know they can be – real, engaging, truly interactive & deeply connected.
Tuesdays – Oct 10th, 17th, 24th & 31st, & Nov 7th
10am – 12pm Pacific Time
ONLINE
The course, experienced in a series of five two-hour online sessions, is both visionary and practical. Visionary in that it awakens new possibilities for how to “be” together in the digital realm, and practical in terms of sharing specific tools and practices that underpin successful online engagements.
We’ll focus on the basics and some of the deeper levels of hosting in the digital realm, using a variety of participatory formats as our entryways – not simply as methods, but as fundamental patterns of engagement.
We will become familiar and comfortable with the technology of online interaction and together explore how to be fully present and connected – to the collective wisdom in our groups & to the innate wisdom of the earth – as the stance from which we host.
Join us and open the door to a better way to be together online.
Hosted by Amy Lenzo and FireHawk Hulin
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Harvesting "Flex" Course
2017-06-12 - 2017-07-24 | CLUBHOUSE
AN ALWAYS “ON” ONLINE COURSE
Offered by Beehive Productions.
June 12th – July 24th
Two “Real Time” Online Sessions: June 12th and July 24th
10 – 11:30am Pacific Time
(use a time zone converter for local time in your area)
Suggested Fee: $450 / Team Rate (3 or more) 50% off
(we practice alternative economy – see the registration form for options if money is an issue for you)
We are creating a new way for you to learn and engage with Beehive Productions – “Flex Courses”. As part of our continuous efforts to make all the valuable material we are gathering through our regular courses available. This course draws on the very popular Harvesting and Collective Sense-Making course we offered last fall in nine sessions and make .
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