The Institute of Noetic Sciences 13th International Conference

Join us to deliberately weave individual and collective learning. Expand your network of inspired allies and friends. Engage with tools from Appreciative Inquiry, World Cafe, Open Space Technology, and the Art of Hosting. Bring your stories, "wicked" questions, honesty, passion, and openness to create a community of practice.

Teresa Posakony is founder of the Art of Hosting practice in North America. She has worked with communities from Navajo Nation to Microsoft to create cultures of conversation and pioneering leadership. Teresa works in partnership with the Berkana Institute and the World Cafe Community as they explore with daring the challenge of "learning to live the future now."

Tenneson Woolf is devoted to creating spaces where groups can meet in deep friendship and learning, and discover their shared work. His work with Meg Wheatley and the Berkana Institute has explored new forms of organizing, leadership, creating community, and effecting social change. He is a founder of the Art of Hosting and a World Cafe Steward.

Sharon Joy Kleitsch inspires communities, organizations, and individuals to partner "outside the box" in conversations that matter and actions that make a difference. She synergized management experience at Citigroup with a masters in Spirituality, and now applies systems theory to the emerging research in love, heart, and fields.

Jane Hughes Gignoux, author of SomeFolk Say: Stories of Life, Death and Beyond, is past president and board member of FIONS in New York City, a cofounder of the Coalition for OneVoice, and an active member of the Undoing Racism Alliance. She facilitates World Cafe dialogues in a wide variety of settings.