Here are just a few:<\/span> The Central Garden\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>is a powerful metaphor that draws on an image of the garden in the center of many old Mexican haciendas. A place overflowing with life, where you can enter through any of the many arched doorways that lead into it.<\/p>\n In this metaphor, coined by World Cafe co-founder Juanita Brown, the doorways are different participatory practices. Once we step through them we enter the shared space of our common work.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the meta-pattern, the meta operating system \u2013 what we\u2019ve come to call \u201cconversation as a co-evolutionary force (and as a force for conscious evolution)\u201d \u2013 that I want to dedicate my own life to making more visible and actionable. The varied methodologies as well as our hosting capacities and practices, in my view, are simply windows into the awareness of and living within this deepest pattern of all that connects us to a common ground together in our lives and work\u2026. beyond all methods and practices, powerful as they may be individually and\/or in combination.\u201d Here are some resources to explore the Central Garden metaphor and the ideas it captures more fully.<\/p>\n ARTICLES<\/strong><\/p>\n Notes on a Central Garden or Jardin Central<\/a> The Central Garden: An Invitation<\/a> <\/p>\n VIDEOS<\/strong><\/p>\n Juanita Brown<\/a> Rowan Simonsen<\/a> We Are Wiser Together<\/a> \u201cI am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities\u2026 We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":65,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
Appreciative Inquiry<\/a><\/span>
Art of Hosting<\/a>
Beehive Productions<\/a>
Berkana Institute<\/a><\/span>
Center for Purposeful Leadership<\/a><\/span>
Chris Corrigan<\/a>
Co-Intelligence Institute<\/a>
Collective Wisdom Initiative<\/a>
Common Ground at UCSC<\/a>
Collaborative Conversations<\/a>
Conversation Collaborative<\/a>
Evolutionary Nexus<\/a>
The Grove International<\/a>
International Forum of Visual Practitioners<\/a>
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation<\/a>
Mycelium<\/a>
Open Space World<\/a>
Organizational Development Network<\/a>
Presencing Institute<\/a><\/span>
Tenneson Woolf<\/a>
Tim Merry<\/a>
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<\/em>~ Juanita Brown<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/central_garden.jpg?resize=1024%2C672&ssl=1\")
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At the World Cafe, we feel strongly about the need to work together \u2013 especially in these challenging times. It\u2019s clear we need everyone, and that together we are wiser than we are alone.<\/p>\n
Original notes from Juanita Brown and Kathy Jordain, later updated and augmented at Juanita\u2019s request by Amy Lenzo.<\/p>\n
Building on the original notes above, this piece was co-written by Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen as a chapter in the 3rd Edition of The Change Handbook (currently being compiled as a\u00a0<\/span>Collaborative Change Library & App<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>by Nexus4Change)<\/p>\n
Speaking on\u00a0<\/span>World Cafe as Method, Metaphor, & Movement: In the Central Garden<\/em>, at\u00a0<\/span>The Community Table<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Launch, November 2019<\/p>\n
Speaking on Beehive Productions & the Central Garden, at\u00a0<\/span>The Community Table<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Launch, November 2019<\/p>\n
A video poem written by Amy Lenzo, narrated by participatory practitioners all over the world, and edited by FireHawk Hulin for the World Cafe 20th Anniversary Celebrations, 2015<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Map_World-Cafe_sm-1024x693.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe Central Garden <\/strong>is a powerful metaphor that draws on an image of the garden in the center of many old Mexican haciendas. A place overflowing with life, where you can enter through any of the many arched doorways that lead into it.\r\n\r\nIn this metaphor, coined by World Cafe co-founder Juanita Brown, the doorways are different participatory practices. Once we step through them we enter the shared space of our common work.\r\n\r\n\"It's the meta-pattern, the meta operating system \u2013 what we've come to call \"conversation as a co-evolutionary force (and as a force for conscious evolution)\" \u2013 that I want to dedicate my own life to making more visible and actionable. The varied methodologies as well as our hosting capacities and practices, in my view, are simply windows into the awareness of and living within this deepest pattern of all that connects us to a common ground together in our lives and work.... beyond all methods and practices, powerful as they may be individually and\/or in combination.\"\r\n<\/em>~ Juanita Brown\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/central_garden-1024x672.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\nAt the World Cafe, we feel strongly about the need to work together - especially in these challenging times. It's clear we need everyone, and that together we are wiser than we are alone.\r\n\r\nHere are some resources to explore the Central Garden metaphor and the ideas it captures more fully.\r\n\r\nARTICLES<\/strong>\r\n\r\nNotes on a Central Garden or Jardin Central<\/a>\r\nOriginal notes from Juanita Brown and Kathy Jordain, later updated and augmented at Juanita's request by Amy Lenzo.\r\n\r\nThe Central Garden: An Invitation<\/a>\r\nBuilding on the original notes above, this piece was co-written by Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen as a chapter in the 3rd Edition of The Change Handbook (currently being compiled as a Collaborative Change Library & App<\/a> by Nexus4Change)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nVIDEOS<\/strong>\r\n\r\nJuanita Brown<\/a>\r\nSpeaking on World Cafe as Method, Metaphor, & Movement: In the Central Garden<\/em>, at The Community Table<\/a> Launch, November 2019\r\n\r\nRowan Simonsen<\/a>\r\nSpeaking on Beehive Productions & the Central Garden, at The Community Table<\/a> Launch, November 2019\r\n\r\nWe Are Wiser Together<\/a>\r\nA video poem written by Amy Lenzo, narrated by participatory practitioners all over the world, and edited by FireHawk Hulin for the World Cafe 20th Anniversary Celebrations, 2015\r\n\r\n ","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6sDis-Qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"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=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3244\/revisions\/4928"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}