World café

this blog is to mark the start of a conversation around the metaphor of sequoia trees.
Charles, Frank, Emunuel and i sat in a café in Leuven last night around the question of what needs to be done to provide an alternative to large organisations wasting human talent and energy in epic proportions, and enable it to have challenges and support as a means of growth.
What emerged was a metaphor of sequoia trees which despite shallow roots grow to huge heights and ages with the help of their supporting neighbours.
The basics are that we create a meeting place or forum, from our sol, collective intelligence, cynefin and other friends;
we use emergent techniques like world café and open space to stimulate the emergence of groups of people around projects which are important for them, with no rules or limits or geography, so money making or educational or charity etc and that by supporting each other across projects and creating new technology meeting places as well as physical ones, the young seedlings can grow in a natural environment full of human talent and sunshine.
By repeating the process we can encourage new projects and mark the closing down of others.

A vague date of february next year in northern europe seemed to be a starting point, which Emanuel was going to work on.

J.