The World Café Community Foundation

Signature Learning Program – Level I

*Agenda Context Setting Overview of the World Café Experiencing the World Café

Rounds of Conversation Harvesting Learnings

Documentation The Best of the World Café Applications ‘back at work and home’ Final Reflections- Take Always and Assessment The World Café Learning Program Certificates Adjourn

The World CaféShaping Our Futures

Through Conversations That Matter

Translated into 10 languages including Spanish,

Portuguese, Japanese & Chinese

Selected in January 2010 by Prime Minister of Japan as 1

of 28 books that will be essential to Japan’s future

The World CaféNetwork of Practitioners around the world

3,000 +ActiveMembers

Purpose of the Workshop

Learning about the creative power of

conversations

and coordinated action for positive change by

experiencing together the World Café process

Objectives

Competencies Develop a general

understanding of the process and principles of the World Café

Experience the emergence of collective learning through the natural process of conversation and collaboration

Relate ones own experience of the World Café to future personal or professional applications

Ability to describe in general terms the World Café process

Ability to link results to intention and experience of collaborative exploration

Ability to assess applicability of the World Café to diverse contexts

Expectations

What are we expecting for today?

*Overview of the World Café

What is the World Café?

A conversational process methodology that makes visible

the collective intelligence of a group

A collaborative exploration of questions that matter

A provocative metaphor enabling us to see new ways to

make a difference in our lives and work

Nancy Margulies

What Happens in a Café Conversation?

A World Café is a simple yet powerful conversational process

through which a group of people: exchange ideas, create new learning, develop or strengthen personal relationships build community, and inspire collective action

Nancy Margulies

Conversations Are At the Heart Of The Process

We learn, adapt and bring forth our worlds through

the networks of conversations in which we

participate

Humberto Maturana

How does a Café Conversation

Work?

The process goes in rounds of conversation at different

tables of four people each Different questions per round As people move from table to table they look for themes,

connections, and collective insight People engage, enjoy the conversation and make new and

quality relationships

Sherrin Bennett

Café Conversations Evolve Around Questions That

Matter

Conversations that revolve around meaningful questions:

Stimulate creativity and fresh thinking

Focus attention and energy

Lead to better responses and solutions

Open the door to change

Lead us into the future

Nancy Margulies

Café Etiquette

Nancy Margulies

A Meaningful Conversation…

Take a moment to identify a time when you had a

great conversation that made a real difference for you.

Now share your story with a partner:

What happened?

What made the conversation possible?

What was different afterwards? And,

What made it meaningful for you?

Whole Group Share Out

“What is a really great conversation I

have had in the last year?”

Share your stories and what made them

a great conversation. Work in trios

Final Reflections and Assessment of the Day