Building the Conference Community

Sunday, November 4, 7:30-9:00 pm

Whether you’re attending the conference for the first time or the seventeenth, start it off by joining us for an evening of light inquiry and connection! Serving as hosts, David Isaacs, Nancy Margulies, and members of the World Café network will invite conversation around some opening questions that will gently jumpstart your learning experience while creating pathways for connection with old and new friends. Discover how you can gain the most from the conference, both while you’re here and after you return home. Prepare to meet your individual and team learning objectives by articulating your goals. Finally, learn how to take the lessons back to your organization and share them with others. This is a great opportunity to have some fun, get acquainted with one another, and lay the groundwork for unleashing the power of relationship.

David Isaacs is co-founder, with Juanita Brown, of the World Café, and is president of Clearing Communications, an organizational and communications strategy company. He has served as a line executive in the healthcare field and has been active in projects related to global sustainability with the SoL Sustainability Consortium, the Natural Step (Sweden), and the Kellogg Foundation. He is the coauthor, with Juanita Brown, of The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter.

Nancy Margulies is one of the pioneers of the World Café and has led workshops around the world for Fortune 500 corporations, community groups, and educators. Her World Café work focuses on responding to global warming beginning at the neighborhood level and moving to increasing levels of scale. The developer of the visual recording methodology called Mindscaping and the author of Mapping Inner Space and Visual Thinking, she will capture the plenary sessions in evocative graphics. Her most recent book with Margaret Wheatley focuses on principles and questions that support healthy community change.