Margaret Wheatley
Academic, Author (Civic & deliberation practitioners)
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Why they matter for gatherings
Margaret Wheatley is an academic and author known for her work with civic and deliberation practitioners. She explores collaborative practices and authored nine books on leadership and facilitation.
Facilitators and event designers should know her for developing methods that foster inclusive dialogue and participatory leadership, offering practical tools to enhance group engagement and decision-making processes.
She adapted the World Cafe methodology and Art of Hosting techniques to promote collective problem-solving and knowledge sharing.
Here is how those methods work in practice.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
World Cafe-Style Fellowship Mentoring Circles (Reverse Brainstorming)
World Cafe Knowledge Cafe
World Cafe-Style Fellowship Circles (Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All)
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
How Public Sector / Policy / Civic gatherings score
Authority profile
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Evidence and receipts
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