World Cafe - an appreciative open space community

Tue Sep 12 17:09:33 PDT 2006

Hi Christine, Tenneson and All

I also had the remarkable privilege of participating in the recent The World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue in California, albeit virtually. 

And took the opportunity to express very similar sentiments to those of yours. For they arise from my lived experience and they are the essence of what I am now doing all around Asia. 

You can see my comments at the end of this lovely item by Amy Lenzo. http://worldcafestewardship.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/what-conversations

In these you may also see reference to a forum which I facilitated in Singapore at the end of July which had as its theme: 

"How may conversational processes such as the World Cafe, Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry be used most effectively alone or in combination?"

The question chosen for the OST component of the event emerged from a particular experience that I had in Mumbai in India just prior to going on to Singapore. Conversations about this incident led me to awareness of the new book by Victoria Castle - who I understand is a friend of Anne Stadler's - called 'The Trance of Scarcity.' Reading this book has been highly illuminating to me. 

Looking forward ...

With love

Alan 

Alan Stewart, PhD

Professional Conversationalist 
Principal, MultiMind Solutions
Now based in Hong Kong and operating throughout Asia-Pacific 

Tel +852 9438 7680
www.multimindsolutions.com
alanmstewart at gmail.com

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Tenneson Woolf 

To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 

Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 6:36 AM

Subject: Re: World Cafe - an appreciative open space community

Thank you Christine - it really was a delight to be in that open space and to be a part of such powerful energy. There are many spaces for us to open and host. I want to echo deliberately Christine's last paragraph. I too feel this call to work together. Sometimes to respond to a particular need. And sometimes to develop more capacity for presence, questions that matter, listening, harvesting, and choosing wise actions. Quite magical really. Good to be together friends.

Tenneson

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Christine Whitney Sanchez
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:47 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: World Cafe - an appreciative open space community

Dear Open Space and World Cafe Friends,

Last week I had the great pleasure of attending The World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue along with Peggy Holman, Tree Fitzpatrick, Kenoli Oleari, Tenneson Woolf, Juanita Brown and other OSList friends.  And this weekend, I'll be traveling to Camden, Maine, for the OSonOS by the Sea.  I feel incredibly blessed to be partaking of the many amazing connections in these two communities. 

During the closing circle at the World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue, I shared how much I was touched by the openness, joy and deep sense of gratitude that permeated our time together.  80 people from 15 countries connected hearts, minds and spirits in deep cafe conversations.  And, to my delight, bodies were well cared for too.  Inspired by the musicians among us and our friends from Brazil, we danced and hiked and climbed the hills around breathtakingly beautiful Tomales Bay, CA.  

In addition to the many commitments made by the World Cafe Community members for stewarding TWC into the future, I know that several For Benefit initiatives were launched or picked up steam.  I expect the same will be true when a small portion of the OS community meets next week in Maine.

I'm struck by how beautifully the World Cafe community holds the space open.  And how the Open Space community has, for over twenty years, invited people to host conversations that matter.

I believe the world is calling for us to work together.  I'm talking about those of us who practice in the field of open, appreciative, strategic conversations and large scale social change.   We can consciously watch for opportunities to work together for large scale impact.  In the near future, we will know which initiatives need and would welcome our help or which projects WE want to initiate.  The Open Space, World Cafe and Appreciative Inquiry communities (among many other communities of practice) are poised and we know how to self-organize.  I can't wait to see what will come calling.  

Namasté,

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez

KAIROS Alliance Inc.

2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue

Phoenix, AZ  85048

480.759.0262

www.kairosalliance.com

* * ========================================================== OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist

*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20060913/aeb89560/attachment-0016.htm>