Nobel Peace Prize Forum World Café

Forum participants will be invited to participate in a World Café session on Saturday, March 5, at 2:30 p.m. in the Luther College cafeteria.

The World Café is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing collective knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action.

If you have ever had a serious conversation while sitting with friends in a café, you have experienced the essence of World Café. This process creates and weaves together dynamic conversations among four or five people, focusing on questions that matter to you and to the world.  

Join in a practical exploration of what the world is calling us to do now as we strive for peace, and how we will embody the courage to act in our lives.

Kathleen Zurcher partners with communities and organizations to achieve their desired future by applying and building capabilities in organizational learning. In 2008 she retired from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she directed organizational learning for 11 years. She has worked in higher education and family medicine, and was a high school English teacher. She holds a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Illinois.

Ann Mansfield is lead facilitator for Luther College’s Round Table Services program and co-convener and project coordinator of the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative, where she works with grassroots leaders to create healthier communities by integrating organizational learning and systems thinking principles.  Ann has 30 years experience in health care and facilitation utilizing process improvement, multidisciplinary teams and systems thinking to achieve desired outcomes. Her degrees include BA-Nursing from Luther College and MSN from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For more information:  http://www.theworldcafe.com/what.htm