The World Cafe
Hosting Fundamentals 2025
NINE REAL-TIME SESSIONS
SATURDAYS
SEPTEMBER 27TH - NOVEMBER 22ND
10:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time
1:00 - 3:30 pm Eastern Time
19:00 - 21:30 Central European Time
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Course Details
The World Cafe is a kaleidoscope...
From one perspective, it is an amazing process that brings diverse people together seeking new collective intelligence. From a deeper perspective, it is an embodied systems change process in which people experience the adage "the whole is greater than the parts." It works us from the inside out as we move from a group of individuals to a growing collective awareness.
In these times of fundamental shift and collapse, the World Cafe can be an ark that enables us to move together from facing unknown futures to seeing new potential.
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DELIVERED ONLINE
Using state-of-the-art interactive distance-learning technologies:
- Zoom
- Kajabi LMS & Community Space
- Google Docs
INCLUDES
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
for qualifying members
COMMUNITY CAFE
Free participation in the September 16th online Community World Cafe
READING MATERIAL
The following required reading will be provided in e-format:
- The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter, by Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, and the World Café Community, Berrett Koehler, 1995
- The World Cafe: Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter, Fielding Doctoral Dissertation by Juanita Brown
- The Art of Powerful Questions, by Juanita Brown, Eric E. Vogt, and David Isaacs
OTHER RESOURCES
- Includes summaries of required reading, and a plethora of supplemental articles, videos, and handouts
USING THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD CAFE
World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals follows a carefully designed curriculum featuring weekly, online “real-time” sessions, and written coursework in rotating small group forums.
Providing a grounded experience of The World Café theory and method, this course applies World Café design principles to bring forth the creative power of conversation and engage questions that matter.
You will gain a practical understanding of hosting World Café using its design principles, and developing the capacity to apply them in your life and work.
The course is very interactive (requiring approx. 4 - 6 hours a week, including real-time sessions) and you will be expected to participate fully.
PROGRAM BENEFITS
- Working collaboratively with other practitioners from around the world in a peer-learning environment.
- You will become familiar with the theory and philosophical foundations of World Café
- Understanding and applying the seven design principles and fundamental assumptions of the World Café mind-set
- Learning to generate powerful Questions for different contexts.
- Developing the skills and capacity to design, convene and host World Café conversations.
- Gaining an understanding and experience of the processes, principles, and “ways of being” that can call forth collective intelligence.
- Together, we will explore how the World Café can be applied in creative ways across different sectors, cultures, demographics, and contexts.
- You'll participate in a public online Learning Cafe with people from the global World Cafe community.
- JOIN US!
- AS A COMMUNITY LEADER
- AS AN ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
- AS A TEACHER
- AS A TEAM MANAGER
COST
REGULAR PRICE: $850.00
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL RATE
20% off
up to September 10th
REGISTRATION CLOSES
September 24th
30% Discount for groups of 3 or More
(Email [email protected] with your group names & email addresses to receive the code)
30% Discount for Community Table Subscribers
(see the Community Table calendar for your discount code)
SCHOLARSHIPS
A limited number of scholarships are available for those who want to take the program but can’t afford it.
If this is you, please contact [email protected] and apply.
Tell us about your circumstances and how you plan to use World Cafe.
~ REGISTRATION CLOSES AUGUST 31ST ~
(There will be a $50 non-refundable administrative late fee charged for registrations after the closing date)
Your course fee includes a $50 non-refundable fee for your reading materials, which will be downloadable in e-format upon registration.
(Please Note: this material cannot be printed and must be read on a computer or e-reader)
Co-Hosted by Amy Lenzo & Maria Scordialos
Amy Lenzo is a senior World Cafe host who believes that World Cafe offers a unique and beautiful way to meet in the field Rumi describes as "out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing". Where we can connect with others authentically and intimately about what has heart and meaning for us.
A member of the World Cafe Stewardship Council, Amy is known for her pioneering work in bringing the World Café process and principles into an online environment for learning and engagement.
Maria Scordialos is a process artist, host and social entrepreneur, creating the conditions for individuals, teams and leaders to live their fullest potential. She offers her natural ability to see patterns, create structure and design processes so that new solutions and forms can be co-created. Maria has applied this through working as a corporate director in the public sector in the UK, a consultant for over 20 years, a co-initiator of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Meaningful Conversation, as well as a founder of the Living Wholeness Institute.
Testimonials
Here's what students from previous years are saying about this course ...
"I feel more informed, connected, and confident in hosting World Cafes."
"This course has renewed my hope that real and meaningful conversations can take place across all the things that seem to divide us."
"The view that the World Cafe Design Principles are ever evolving; that they can and will grow as we gain new understanding is very meaningful to me."
"The insights offered and critical reflections were so important to support my own growth and development. Even if we have been using the Café methodology for a while, it is important to interrupt assumptions, reflect, and re-evaluate your practice."
"This course was transformative for me... Deepening my practice around how to use the World Cafe will forever impact my work."
