The Central Garden

Uncategorized Dec 02, 2019

Defining the Central Garden 

The metaphor of a Central Garden comes from Juanita Brown, co-founder of the World Cafe dialogic practice, who describes the courtyard in the middle of her adopted grandmother’s home in Chiapas, Mexico - lush with vivid bougainvillea, vibrant flowers, and verdant trees in big clay pots surrounding a large fountain in the center. You enter the central garden, or jardín central as they call it in Latin America, by going through any one of the multiple arched doorways that surround this open space in the very heart of the home.

 

The innovations and practices that we introduced briefly earlier have largely emerged and grown up together in the last few decades; new growth nourished from the same ground of shared values and intentions for co-creating a better world. In our metaphor, these practices are the doorways that lead into the Central Garden, which is the focus of this article. 

 

This metaphor of a Central Garden works...

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