{"id":507,"date":"2011-10-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldcafe.com\/a-hospitable-space"},"modified":"2015-07-20T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T22:25:31","slug":"a-hospitable-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/a-hospitable-space\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hospitable Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From World Caf\u00e9 steward Donald Proffit, about what the World Caf\u00e9 has made possible for him and why he is contributing to the Harvest Fund Drive: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I first met Juanita and David in 2004 at the Marconi Conference Center in Marshall, California on Tomales Bay. Rolling December storms coming across the Pacific triggered a number of power outages, leaving our group in the dark. Hurricane lamps were placed around the room and candles on small tables. In this setting surrounded by &quot;intimate strangers,&quot; I was introduced to the World Cafe, which prior to this moment I had thought was a radio show originating on WXPN-FM in Philadelphia. Juanita welcomed us, in a very true sense, &quot;out of the darkness.&quot; And Finn was there and Tom and Meg and Peter and so many more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This one experience changed how I would work with others from then on. A principal at a large New Jersey public high school, I returned with a gift for my community. Faculty meetings shifted to cafe conversations on what students needed to be successful; diverse groups of students gathered to consider ethics and the school&#39;s core values. It was transforming, magical.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cafe Community Foundation has provided me with the generosity of tools and skills to transform a school community. It&#39;s time to pay it forward.<\/p>\n<p>Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From World Caf\u00e9 steward Donald Proffit, about what the World Caf\u00e9 has made possible for him and why he is contributing to the Harvest Fund Drive: I first met Juanita [&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":[7,10,26,428],"tags":[42,57,162,161,163,41,165,164],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-education","category-relationship","category-resourcing","tag-community","tag-education","tag-friendship","tag-hospitable-space","tag-meetings","tag-the-world-cafe","tag-tools","tag-transformation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-8b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}