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Conversation Week Facts and Figures
Who? Over 150 hosts held Conversations Cafes with the number of participants ranging from 2 to 50. We estimate that over 2500 individuals , or even more, of you were having conversations that matter during Conversation Week 2008!
Where? There were conversations that took place in 24 countries, and those are just the ones we knew about! There were even online conversations through our Conversation Week 2008 partners at Global Mindshift and virtual conversations through Second Life.
When? Most of these conversations took place during Conversation Week 2008 (March 24-30, 2008), but many of you have told us that these conversations are continuing. Check our website to see if there is a regularlarly meeting Conversation Cafe near you, or perhaps you’ll be the one to start one.
So what did we learn? We’re still figuring this out, but some of the insights are posted on the Global Map. Just roll over the pins to see what hosts are saying about their Conversation Week events, and CHECK BACK. More harvesting of ‘what we learned’ will be available on our website soon.
And, please share your stories and your photos with us so that your ‘’a-ha” moments can be shared with the rest of the world!
Tell us how it went
We need to hear from everyone who participated, because Conversation Week isn’t just the intimate local conversations - it’s about hearing the voices of those at other tables and offering our resonant, deeply considered insights to the world.
If you have had your conversation please take the survey and tell us how it went, what you learned and what’s next. There are two surveys, one for guests and one for hosts. We would value everyone’s reports. The surveys are easy, interesting and give you lots of room to tell it your way.
For Guests,Click Here to take survey
For Hosts, Click Here to take survey
Also, everyone who’s been in a conversation is encouraged to post one insight on the blog for your question. See links to each question on the right. The world is waiting to hear that spark of insight that happened for you on these most important issues of our times.
You can be part of Conversation Week now
The table is set and you’re invited. Conversation Week March 24-30 is waiting for you.
Review of the steps to participate in Conversation Week
- Sign up (you can come back to fill in details later) to host a Conversation Cafe. This gets you on the map and in the feedback loop.
- Or sign up for an online conversation through Global MindShift
- Pick your favorite question from the top ten plus one.
- Read the short Conversation Café manual
- Find a location (your home with friends, a café or library or public space for the community). Tell us where to include that on the map.
- For Conversation Cafes, set a time, allowing 15 minutes for ‘settling in’ and 90 minutes for the conversation.
- Invite people. Use email. Download a flyer and post.
- Have perhaps the best conversation of the year
- Tell us what you learned. Return www.conversationweek.org at the end to respond to the survey. Write on the blogs. Participate in the collective reflections online and on conference calls.
Every time you have a conversation with someone, you can build a relationship, help solve a problem, learn something new, and challenge people’s ideas. Conversations have the power to change the world.
You are an important part of a growing movement that is teaching conversational literacy to people around the globe, facilitating deep dialogue — and real change — around the Big Questions facing humanity.
Fifteen hundred people in 39 countries participated in suggesting and selecting the following ten questions as the most important ones in the world today. These are our concerns expressed not as demands but as the questions we must all consider at every level of life to meet the challenges of our times.
Conversation Week 2008 gives us a chance to talk with friends, neighbors and strangers about one or more of these questions – and discover answers that can re-direct our lives and work, while knowing that sincere people on the other side of the planet are doing the same.
Your Conversation Week question is more a conversation starter than a conversation topic. Don’t feel obliged to answer the question. Rather, use it to stimulate your circle to go where their sincere interest lies. As you speak from the heart, listen with respect and follow the thread of meaning, you’ll have one of the best conversations of the year.
This map indicates all of the face-to-face Conversation Week dialogues around the world that have been registered with us. To get on the map sign up to host a cafe.
To view a larger map, click here.
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