This week I had the great fun of collaborating with Claire Atkin of WeAreYVR and Todd Sieling, Tylor Sherman, Arian Khosravi and Sam Dal Monte of Denim & Steel. WeAreYVR is a not for profit, collaborative project, with the goal of making Vancouver’s startup community more connected, transparent, and welcoming. In March WeAreYVR received enough municipal […]
Tag: World Cafe
It was a group of about 60 church leaders and lay people, gathering for a regular business meeting. They meet face to face like this only a few times a year. I was invited in to provide participatory design and hosting for the session. They wanted to use the time to look back and discover […]
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A Big World Cafe Day
Today was a great day. Played with some amazing people (waving to you @nancywhite and @avrilorloff) and a nifty super cool SMS webby-appy-tool called SMS Harvest (hello talented @lukec – his website is here). More to come on learnings around hosting and harvesting a cafe for 800ish people. Deep gratitute to Nancy and Avril for inviting me […]
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Leadership Leaps of Faith
We were about 50 people who gathered for a Vancouver Board of Trade Company of Young Professionals development night. Our invitation was framed as a unique opportunity for collective dialogue with The Vancouver Board of Trade’s new President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Iain Black. After a presentation from Mr. Black, “Leading Like I Know […]
Last Friday I joined about 180 souls from around the world on a conference call in the Conversations for the 21st Century series. The topic for this call was Community and we began by hearing from three conversation starters (Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley, Peter Block and Nancy White) who were asked to speak to […]
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Musings on Holding Space
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to work with a group who wanted to create some plans for 2011. I drew on the Chaordic Stepping Stones to clarify the high level purpose, the principles, the people and the meeting concept, guided by the mantra that “we aren’t planning a meeting, we’re planning a […]
I’m reposting something I wrote back in May of 2010 – apologies in advance for the duplication and the length. It was the first time I blogged with my own voice (as opposed to merely logging books and articles I’d found) and I’ll never forget how terrifying it was to hit that publish button, thinking […]
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Art of Hosting – V. One
I have 30 pages of scribbled notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience. I’m attempting to string my wow moments and insights into a harvest for others to enjoy. Introducing – volume one. My World Café notes. I loved the flip chart showing the rhythm of the day as a pie […]