Juanita Brown - The World Café

2 SEPTEMBER, 2025
The World Café is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and we invite you to join the party with this session where Juanita will share stories about the origin and early days of the World Cafe, and how it has evolved ton what it is today. 

Juanita will explore the ways World Café is so much more than a method. As a process born to world service, as co-founder Finn Voltofte put it, World Cafe is aso a way of being together, a growing movement, and a metaphor for how we create collective  meaning together.

Heather Plett - Holding Space

7 OCTOBER, 2025
Holding Space for our selves, each other, and the emerging times is so crucial that we often forget that we can be intentional about this.

Heather has been a pioneer in bringing our awareness to this work, which is especially meaningful in these times of liminality – when the future is uncertain and we find ourselves navigating complexity, grief, fear, and instability.

She is the co- founder of: The Centre for Holding Space and author of two books on Holding Space for others and for one's self.

Tom Hurley - Chaordic Stories

4 NOVEMBER 2025
Navigating the Chaordic path - in our practice, organizations, lenses and leadership - has been foundational for understanding complexity, living systems, and the application of our work in an ever-changing world. 

Tom will share some of his may stories about working as a pioneer in this field. From his early stages with Dee Hock (as CEO for the Chaordic Alliance), to how his perception and application of the core chaordic ideas have evolved over the years since then.

Toke Møller - Organizing Patterns

6 DECEMBER, 2025
The 4 Organizing Patterns and The 5th Organizing Paradigm that Toke has formulated invites us to understand and be awake of when and how we leverage the circle for enhancing mutual understanding and relationships, the triangle for promoting action and leadership, and the square for establishing enduring structures.

Understanding when and how to use these models allows us to be adaptive and responsive to the needs of any particular moment.

Bob Stilger - The Two Loops

6 JANUARY 2026
As Co-President of Berkana Institute, Bob was part of the team that developed the Two Loops model as a theory of change used by Berkana Institute.

Understanding the lifecycle of living systems and seeing how change happens has never been as important as it is now.

This simple and powerful pattern helps us see what we are doing and what role we might play as we give shape to a new story and a new system.