Pre-Forum Meetings

World Cafe Celebration and Community Gathering
The World Cafe will occur on Monday, September 12 9AM-6PM and Tuesday, Sept. 13 9AM-1PM at the Hotel Mercure Seccession, Vienna with World Cafe Co-Founders Juanita Brown and David Isaacs

Join global friends of the World Cafe to celebrate her 10th anniversary and the publication of The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter. Come to share stories, discover new connections, and strengthen the growing World Cafe global community of dialogue inquiry and practice. New and old friends welcome! No fee. Shared food costs.Please send an e-mail confirmation of your interest in attending asap to ken@theworldcafe.com and we'll send you detailed information on housing and other logistics.

Local Consultants Meeting
13 Tuesday September 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM at the Mercure Secession Hotel
During the past two years, a group of U.S. consultants has worked to create a SoL consultant community that can build a joined referral network and fashion a vibrant community that will, through SoL, produce an economic base for both the individuals and the whole. We also have sought to create a system where we can have a collective evaluation or certification of all consultants, including the assessment by market so proper recommendation can be made by SoL. In this session, members of this group wish to share our thinking with SoL members from other countries, with the hope we will be able to create deeper and more effective work that will have a lasting impact on our institutions
Please let Iva Wilson or Tony Rollins know if you are coming so that we have a sense of how many will be attending.

Local SoL Community Coordinators Gathering
13 Tuesday September 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Coordinators of local SoL communities are invited to a pre-Forum gathering from 3-5 PM on Tuesday, September 13th immediately prior to the opening reception.  The purpose of this session is to help build the coordinators network and to discuss how we can continue to build the necessary infrastructure to support our global community, including future Global Forums.  Please contact Sherry Immediato for more information.   Meeting details will be sent to participants at the end of August.