"Thank you Dresden, Columbus, Juanita, David, Ann, Pat, Jeff, Phil and all the rest of you hosting folks
as we in the world - slowly but surely - are beginning to remember ourselves in the world as cafe..."

Here is the poem Toke wrote:

Hi everone,
We've recently returned from Dresden, Germany where our European Cafe kindreds hosted an amazing gathering that attracted folks from more than 15 countries!  We were astounded (and you'll be happy to know that David and I did no organizing on this one--just blessing it!) at what ocurred there. Most exciting was the simultaneous hosting of eight local World Cafés throughout the greater Dresden area (on sustainable business, the arts, media, youth and education, etc.), which led key leaders in Dresden to begin envisioning Dresden as a "learning city" using conversational modalities like the World Café and others to engage citizens at all levels in conversations about the questions that matter most to them--- the "world as café" came alive in Germany!