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coevolution

The World Café awakens and engages collective intelligence through conversations about questions that matter. We recognize conversation as a co-evolutionary force through which we collaboratively discover our collective future.

I've recently returned from a week of truly inspirational and profound learning with Humberto Maturana, Ximena Davila and their colleagues at the Matriztica Institute learning about the cultural-biological foundations of human existence and our co-evolution as loving beings through the relational spaces and networks of conversation in which we participate.

Let me share a few seed ideas that relate to our work with the World Café to give you a flavor of this workshop on cultural biological matrix of human existence, and then provide a brief description of how I see the World Cafe embodying some these powerful scientific insights about the origins and conservation of our very humanness.

Apologies to Humberto and his colleagues in advance for any misinterpretations that I might have had, as they are quite precise and I may not have interpreted it fully as they intended.

"As humans we are born in the trust of loving and in being loved–within an ecology of the natural world and within the larger living cosmos." Love is the legitimate co-arising of the other in the relational space between us. What w

Unique Opportunity: Discover the Roots of the World Cafe!June 24

On August 3-8 in Boston I am planning to attend a powerful teaching seminar with Dr. Humberto Maturana and his colleague Prof. Ximena Davila, two pioneering Chilean cultural biologists focused on the deeper process of co-evolution and renewal in human systems. They will help us see how we, as human beings with the unique capacity for language, reflective consciousness, and meaning making through the networks of conversation in which we participate have evolved today's world.....and what our possibilities might be for consciously co-evolving our futures together in more life-affirming ways.

Maturana's work has had a profound influence on the deeper intention of the World Cafe as an approach through which people can experience these living networks of conversation and their potential for co-evolving the futures we want rather than being forced to live with the futures we get. I encourage any of you who want to learn the scientific underpinnings of the World Cafe to join me in this powerful joint inquiry.

For more information and how to register.

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Nancy Margulies sent in a link to this Art of Hosting video, which gives a great overview of the self-organizing design shared by the World Café and all living systems work:

New Frontiers in Participatory Knowledge DevelopmentMarch 6

Fielding Graduate University’s Institute for Social Innovation Announces Groundbreaking Research Partnership with the World Café

By Thomas J. Hurley for the World Café Community Foundation

An exciting new partnership brings together Fielding Graduate University’s Institute for Social Innovation and the World Café Community Foundation to develop and disseminate the World Café as a methodology for participatory research and collective knowledge evolution, and to explore applications of the World Café in key areas such as change leadership, organizational development, and societal learning.

Cooperatively discovered in 1995, the World Café is an innovative approach to hosting and harvesting collaborative conversations about questions that matter. The process is designed to evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of a group, increasing participants’ capacity to create shared meaning, discover new knowledge, and foster innovation across organizational, social, or cultural boundaries that ordinarily get in the way of collaboration. Today, this research-based and field-tested approach to strategic dialogue, multi-stakeholder engagement, intergenerational collaboration, and cooperative action has been enthusiastically embraced by people around the world, in virtually every field and all sectors, who are working to catalyze positive change. Through their efforts, innovative approaches to critical issues in socially respo

Be the ChangeFebruary 8

I get occasional mail from KarmaTube sharing inspirational videos, and this one was so good I wanted to share it with you here. The people are speaking a language I don't understand, but I love the 'conversation' that happens beyond words...