Glad to have been with the 50 participants last Friday and Saturday. One of the participants named some core purpose during our World Cafe — “I love being a healer.” It came out of a conversation about what patients really want, and what’s possible?
Sometimes the shape is Circle. In a hotel ballroom. It’s hearth. to hold us. This particular hearth grew to include hard copy pictures of people that “inspire us to offer our best.”
Sometimes the shape is small tables. For cafe and other small group work. As I shared with the group, it’s a large group conversation held at small tables.
When I host and co-host groups like this, I so often relearn the core narrative and purpose. I relearn it because I witness it. I see it unfold in front of me.
The basics go something like this:
- People want to learn.
- People want to contribute.
So…,
- Create a pile of connection.
- What grows naturally out of that is a pile of courage.
And that brings us back to fulfillment
- of a desire to learn
- of a desire to contribute
- of a desire to grow in craft
- of a desire to grow as a community in craft
Pretty cool.