<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Christine (and everyone)....<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>It was, indeed, a wonderful gathering.... in very large measure because of so many incredible people from around the world and the generosity of spirit that flowered there. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you,Christine, for "showing up" as you did and thank you to all our other friends, both in the World Cafe community and in kindred networks</DIV><DIV> for having been of such mutual support over all these years in the "common work" we are all doing on behalf of life affirming futures.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For those interested in having a bit more of the flavor, here's where to go for more on the Stewardship Dialogue--some of the posts on the blog are wonderful and very detailed about what happened there. Thank you to Ria Baeck, Amy Lenzo, and Beth Alexander who helped put up this blog. You'll need to go to the August Archives for the full set of entries.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You can find the discussion of the Stewardship Dialogue and pictures on the blog at: worldcafestewardship.wordpress.com/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OR, you can go to Flickr.com to: <A href="http://flickr.com/photos/worldcafe/sets/">http://flickr.com/photos/worldcafe/sets/</A> for some of the picture sets to give you a "feeling tone" for what unfolded.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And, my very best wishes for the upcoming OS on OS. I know it will be a great gathering as well!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Fondest regards,</DIV><DIV>Juanita Brown<BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 6, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Christine Whitney Sanchez wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006">Dear Open Space and World Cafe Friends,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006">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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006">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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006">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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080">Namasté,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="343100501-05092006"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#008080"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#008080"> <DIV align="left"><EM><FONT face="Bradley Hand ITC">Christine</FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="1"></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color="#008080"><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size="2"><STRONG>Christine Whitney Sanchez</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT color="#008080"> <DIV><SPAN class="265140401-10082005"><STRONG><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Book Antiqua"><FONT color="#000000">KAIROS<SPAN class="656063917-10082005"> </SPAN>Alliance Inc<SPAN class="656063917-10082005">.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color="#000000" size="2">2717 E. 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