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The World Cafe*in renewal

Exploring questions that matter with people that matter even more!

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Discovering “quanta of meanings” in & through the World Café

Exploring questions that matter with people that matter even more!

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Discovering “quanta of meanings” in & through the World Café

*= “times” – people multiply the value of one another in the context of human time

Rev. 4.4 – August, 2006

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“Speaking Our World into Being” The World Café in Renewal

• In your wonderful little essay, “The Power of Conversations that Matter,” Juanita, you reference Vicki Robin’s quote:

• “We talk to ourselves in our minds about our past, present and future. … We each than carry the meanings and possibilities we’ve created into other conversations … We speak our world into being.”

• In your wonderful little essay, “The Power of Conversations that Matter,” Juanita, you reference Vicki Robin’s quote:

• “We talk to ourselves in our minds about our past, present and future. … We each than carry the meanings and possibilities we’ve created into other conversations … We speak our world into being.”

• Clock time somehow confines (imprisions) us to the present “as a tiny point.”

• Yet, the “spaciousness present” of human time is where we co-create, in conversation, many exciting “meanings,” as Vicki suggests.

• Clock time somehow confines (imprisions) us to the present “as a tiny point.”

• Yet, the “spaciousness present” of human time is where we co-create, in conversation, many exciting “meanings,” as Vicki suggests.

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Time: Absolute and RelativeTime: Absolute and Relative

Past Present Future

A tiny moving dot

The Arrow of Time (Absolute Time)Both Aristotle & Newton believed in absolute time.

The Sphere of Human Time (Relative Time)

Einstein and Qunatum Mechanics have abandoned the idea of “absolute time.”

How do we find the “quanta of meanings” within the spacious time of our human

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Remain captive or move on?Remain captive or move on?

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Future

Past

P resen t

Future

Past

P resen t

Do only whatis expected

of you!

It is past and gone!

Level 1

Level 2

Forget yourcolleagues

The future doesn‘treally matter!

The Industrial Era The Industrial Era confines us confines us to a hollow “present”to a hollow “present”

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Future

Past

P resen t

Future

Past

P resen t

Visualizing &aspiring

Reflecting on what isimportant

Building uponknowledge

& skill

Level 1

Level 2

Human Time: Dynamic and RichHuman Time: Dynamic and Rich

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Future

Past

P resen t

Future

Past

P resen t

Reflecting on what‘s

happening, asking questions & living

our values with focus and courage

Building upon insights,

knowledge & lessonslearned

Level 1

Head

&

Level 2

Feelings

Developing a„culture of

collaboration“by bringing outthe best in one

another

Increasingbandwidth between

past & futureVisualizingpossibilities

& connecting withaspirations

The richness of human time The richness of human time engenders engenders new “meanings”new “meanings”

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There‘s a wonderfulThere‘s a wonderfulabundance to human timeabundance to human time

Vicki Robin’s …

“past,” “present”& “future”

Vicki Robin’s …

“past,” “present”& “future”

It would be nice to free ourselves from the tyranny of clock time & the confinement of the box & billiard ball effect

Co-discovering “quanta of

meanings!”

Co-discovering “quanta of

meanings!”

Experiences,Insights & Skills

Questions/Questioning

Values/Valuing

Aspirations

Future

Past

Present

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“Speaking Our World into Being” Discovering the Richness of Possibilities

• It was not until 1929 that we understood, thanks to the work of Edwin Hubble, that the world is dynamic, and not static as Aristotle and Newton thought.

• And the work of the quantum physicists (i.e. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle) show that things are not fixed, but life is rich in possibilities.

• How might the World Café support our efforts to master the art of co-creativity to bring new possibilities into life?

• It was not until 1929 that we understood, thanks to the work of Edwin Hubble, that the world is dynamic, and not static as Aristotle and Newton thought.

• And the work of the quantum physicists (i.e. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle) show that things are not fixed, but life is rich in possibilities.

• How might the World Café support our efforts to master the art of co-creativity to bring new possibilities into life?

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Exploring Human “Meaning” TimeAn additional challenge of the World Café?

• What “questions” and “values” might aid us in our reflective processes? (Present)

• How might we listen deeply to and connect with one another’s aspirations? (Future)

• How can we actively build upon our experiences, insights and skills? (Past)

• And together how can we co-create new possibilities and new meanings?

Thanks Juanita, Vicki & TWC Community

• What “questions” and “values” might aid us in our reflective processes? (Present)

• How might we listen deeply to and connect with one another’s aspirations? (Future)

• How can we actively build upon our experiences, insights and skills? (Past)

• And together how can we co-create new possibilities and new meanings?

Thanks Juanita, Vicki & TWC CommunityWith “curiosity” we explore possibilities,

and with “courage” we act!

Questions/Questioning

Values/Valuing

Aspirations

Experiences,Insights & Skills

Future

Past

Present

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