{"id":491,"date":"2014-09-05T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldcafe.com\/alex-bretas-"},"modified":"2015-07-20T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T22:24:36","slug":"alex-bretas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/alex-bretas\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Bretas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a Skype conversation the other day with David Isaacs, co-founder of the World Cafe, and a young World Caf\u00e9 host named <strong>Alex Bretas Vasconcelos from Sao Pablo, Brazil.<\/strong> &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Alex had called us together to talk about an educational initiative he&#39;s just finished crowd-sourcing funds for called &quot;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catarse.me\/pt\/educforadacaixa\" target=\"_blank\">Education Outside the Box<\/a><\/strong>&quot; (check out his video &#8211; it has English subtitles &#8211; and scroll down to hear a video message of support from Juanita Brown, co-founder of the World Caf\u00e9). <\/p>\n<p>During our conversation, Alex started talking about his experience as a participant in one of the first <em>Hosting World Caf\u00e9<\/em>:<em> The Fundamentals<\/em> courses we hosted at Fielding. It was exciting to me to hear how strong its impact had been on him. Here&#39;s an excerpt from what he said:<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"270\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hipcast.com\/playweb?audioid=P815eeb42b6e8689ccd3711dd97d3bda3Yl57S1REYmR9&amp;buffer=5&amp;shape=6&amp;fc=FFFFFF&amp;pc=99CC00&amp;kc=990033&amp;bc=FFFFFF&amp;frame=0&amp;brand=1&amp;player=vp20\" width=\"480\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>After giving permission for me to pull out this piece of our conversation, he asked me if I wanted him to write something about his experience, so of course I said yes. Here&#39;s what he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It was a wonderful time taking the World Cafe Signature Learning Program, since it was both a challenge and an opportunity to me to get in touch with people from all around the world and practice my English. Beyond that, I was deeply curious to take a better look at the World Cafe, and at that time I was beginning my personal journey of discovery when it comes to host conversations that matter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was also an opportunity for me to read Juanita Brown&#39;s dissertation, a masterpiece which is always coming back at me in diverse forms. Now, I have a deeper knowledge about hosting practices both in a theoretical-reflexive level and in a experiential level, and the Signature Learning Program was co-responsible for that.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a Skype conversation the other day with David Isaacs, co-founder of the World Cafe, and a young World Caf\u00e9 host named Alex Bretas Vasconcelos from Sao Pablo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,31,424],"tags":[56,55,54,57,58,59,60,53,41,52],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-south-america","category-learning-programs","tag-alex-bretas-vasconcelos","tag-amy-lenzo","tag-david-isaacs","tag-education","tag-education-outside-the-box","tag-fielding-graduate-university","tag-hosting-world-cafe-the-fundamentals","tag-juanita-brown","tag-the-world-cafe","tag-world-cafe-signature-learning-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-7V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}