Mendalla
"Wondercafe Live"
Posted on: 12/08/2013 16:15
I know some have talked in the past about running "Wondercafe Live" discussion groups or similar events in their churches. One thing I rather miss is having face-to-face discussion (though we do have it after church occasionally). I am eyeing joining the local Socrates Cafe but that is more oriented to secular philosophy than spirituality/religion. I am starting to contemplate offering to start something along these lines at my UU fellowship or at least using the fellowship as a meeting place. Anyone who has led or participated in something along these lines in a church setting care to toss me some thoughts, ideas, wisdom or, best of all, links to resources. Am I just asking for a great big PITA here or is it something that could prove worth the effort?
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chemgal
Posted on: 12/08/2013 19:18
Zero advice, but it's something I would be interested in.
Arminius
Posted on: 12/09/2013 08:41
We had a wondercafe-live! at our old congregation in Lumby, B.C. LumbyLad and I founded and led it. Every Friday night at seven someone presented a topic for about one hour, then we had a question and answer session and then discussions at the tables.
We set up our church hall as a cafe, with round tables for four, and self-serve coffee and tea. The topics were by pre-arrangement, anything from art to environmentalism to spirituality to social justice and village issues. It was well attended, we even had a full house at times. Once I presented a topic on meditation, led a guided meditation at the end of my presentation, and had printed copies of my presentation laid out for people to take home. Many of our presenters did power point presentations, some did show-and-tell, one did a slide presentation on the Burning Man Festival.
I moved away from Lumby two years ago. LumbyLad is now continuing wondercafe-live! singlehandedly, with movies or videos and discussions.
kaythecurler
Posted on: 12/09/2013 09:08
I have no experience to offer - but think I'd enjoy WonderCafeLive. Unfortunately I was unable to find others in the congregation I attended who were interested in discussing a variety of topics (in some cases they didn't want to discuss anything at all!). There was no Bible study, no Book Club, no way of easing into a something like WCLive.
chansen
Posted on: 12/09/2013 10:56
Any of us could do a Skype conference call for free.