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The Art of Framing Powerful Questions: Conversational Leadership and the World Café

Pre and post Forum tours highlighting the best of Oman; its people, landscape and culture.

From its inception, SoL was intended to be a self organizing global network of learning communities. SoL communities have been established or are emerging in many countries, but the work of creating sufficient infrastructure to support SoL as a global entity remains unfinished. The founding SoL fractal --the oldest and most developed SoL community and the legal owner of the SoL name --has provided some elements of global infrastructure, such as the SoL website, and continues to provide support for establishing the minimal amount of structure needed to allow SoL to pursue its purpose on a global scale.

The 2003 Global Forum in Helsinki, Finland, represented a major step forward in the process of moving us from where we are now a network of SoL communities linked mainly by informal, personal relationships to where we want to be: a global community linked by a common idea of what it means to be a citizen of global SoL, operating democratically and non hierarchically; with a robust capacity for collective learning and coordinated action. At that meeting, we established a design team charged with building on the foundational work that has already taken place to propose a process for adopting governance and operational structures supportive of SoL communities around the world. That team recommended taking the process forward and drafted self-amending guidelines for SoL citizenship.

The Second Global Forum in Vienna, Austria, brought together more than 400 participants from six continents and 20 countries to share ideas and explore how the theme of "Leveraging complexity to create knowledge and confidence" is reflected in themselves, their work, their community, and the world.