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You're Invited to Café Asia! Shaping Livable Futures for Our Children
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Please join us on May 9-10 for a very special World Café gathering with friends and colleagues
from Asia and around the world. What brings us together is our recognition that never before
have the decisions we make on a daily basis had such far-reaching impacts on the generations
yet to be born. Reaching across generations, nationalities, professions and sectors, this inspiring
Café dialogue will engage each participant's unique contributions and connections in consciously
shaping and working towards futures that our children and grandchildren will thank us for.
Café Asia is being held in conjunction with the Quest for Global Healing Conference in Ubud, Bali,
Indonesia... but you do not need to attend the main conference to participate in Café Asia.
(Please visit questforglobalhealing.org/cafeasia.htm for more details and to register for either
the full conference or Café Asia.)
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What is the World Café?
Building on the rich dialogue traditions of Ken Tan in China, Kopitiam in Singapore, Banjar in
Bali, and Café in the West, the World Cafe is a leading edge conversational process that is
fostering collective wisdom and committed action in business, government, education, and
community based organizations on six continents. (Please visit theworldcafe.com) By
constructing strong bridges between productive dialogue and practical action, the World Café
demonstrates the power of "conversations that matter" to impact core questions related to our
lives and work.
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What to Expect
In Café Asia, we will weave together our individual passions, diverse cultural perspectives, and
deeply shared commitment to nourishing positive futures across the boundaries that often
separate us. Drawing on the World Café and related dialogic processes, the creative arts of Bali,
and the participants' personal and professional gifts, we will:
- Give voice to the "questions that matter" at the heart of our lives and work.
- Explore practical ways to work across traditional boundaries in order to serve the
organizations and communities to which we belong and to shape futures that our children
and grandchildren can feel proud of.
- Experience first hand the innovative World Café process and the collective wisdom that
can emerge when blending Eastern and Western traditions in this type of strategic dialogue
- Connect with the growing Asian and global network of pioneering individuals and
organizations in business, government and community organizations using the World Café
and related collaborative processes to foster positive systemic change at every level of
organizational life and society.
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Your hosts
After being welcomed by members of the royal family of Ubud, Bali, you will be hosted by
Samantha Tan and Sheila Damodaran of Singapore, Chaiwat Thirapantu of Thailand, David Marsing
of the U.S.A and other international colleagues.
Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, authors of the award-winning book The World Café: Shaping Our
Futures Through Conversations that Matter will be special guests. They will share what they
have learned during the first decade of the World Café?s life and the questions that now matter
most to them.
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Registration
There are special rates and conference options for "friends of the World Café." Full details for
attending the Quest For Global Healing Conference and Café Asia can be found on the Quest For
Global Healing website questforglobalhealing.org/cafeasia.htm.
If your circumstances permit, please consider making a donation to the scholarship fund to help
us bring NGO participants to attend this important gathering.
You are also invited to forward this email on to friends and colleagues who you feel would
benefit from participating. To do so, please use the blue link labeled "Forward email" below.
We look forward to seeing you in Bali!
Cordially,
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Ken Homer on behalf of
The World Cafe Community Foundation
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