Download - Welcome to the World Café Shaping our Futures through Conversations that Matter 14 October 2010
Welcome to the World Café
Shaping our Futures through Conversations that Matter
14 October 2010
■ World Café in the Global Context
■ World Café Experience
Dinner
■ World Café Design Guidelines
■ World Café Application
Today’s Program
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 capacity to see the world of the “other” sounds simple, but it is not. Yet it is the core of creating a new human history together.
The World Café and this book serve as an inspiration to help make that possible.
Lic. Esteban Moctezuma Barragan, Mexico’s Former Minister of Social
Development
The World Café is a simple yet powerful method for large and small groups of
people to:
• foster collaborative dialogue • share and create new knowledge
• build community• inspire collective action
Café Outcomes
1. Communication Across Silos
2. Broad Engagement on Strategic Initiatives
3. Create Shared Direction, Momentum for Action
4. Cross Pollinate Learning, Generate New Insight
5. Build Community and Trust
6. Uncovering Deeper Issues
CAFE ETIQUETTE
Listen to understand.Focus on what matters
Contribute your thinkingSpeak your mind and heart
Link and connect ideasListen together for insights and deeper
questions.Doodle – on your tablecloths
Have Fun!
■ 3 Rounds of Conversation at 3 Different Tables • Different Question for Each Round• Use Talking Piece• Look for Themes & Connections• Relax & Enjoy!
■ Harvest Collective Insight & Learning
■ Connect to Next Steps
Say hello
Share a story of a conversation that made a real difference for you
What happened?What made the conversation possible? What happened after?What made it meaningful for you?
Café Round 1:
Café Travelling Instructions…• One person stays as host• Others move to different tables
• Host welcomes new people• Wait for next question
Café Round 2:
Begin by sharing one idea, theme or insight from your last round
Then, share a story of a conversation that made a real difference for someone else
What happened?What made the conversation possible? How did you know it was meaningful?What happened after?
Café Travelling Instructions…• One person stays as host• Others move to different tables
• Host welcomes new people• Wait for next question
Café Round 3:
Share one nugget from your last round
What themes, connections and insights are you seeing from your first two rounds?
What are you learning about what makes a conversation “matter”?
Harvesting our Collective WisdomThemes, connections, insights…
New questions or ideas…
Dinner
World CaféDESIGN
PRINCIPLES(powerful when used
together!)
The knowledge and wisdom we need is already
present and accessible
Intelligence emerges as the
system connects to itself in
creative ways
Listening into the center
Connecting ideas
Noticing new
possibilities
Honoring unique
contributions
Collective insight evolves
from…
CAFÉ ASSUMPTIONS
Outcomes are better when they are informed by:
• Diversity of Perspectives • Cross Pollination of Ideas
• Attention to Meta Level Themes & Patterns• Questions that Matter to People
When Designing a Café, Consider…
1. What is my Purpose and Intention?
2. How can I invite people so that my Purpose and Intention come through?
3. Who needs to be in the room?
4. Who will you partner with?- to design the Café questions- to “make it happen”
5. What are the questions that matter?
Questions are intrinsically related to action, they spark and direct attention, perception, energy and effort…
Creativity requires asking genuine questions, those to which an answer is not already known.
Questions function as open-handed invitations to creativity, calling forth that which doesn’t yet exist.
-Marilee Goldberg Adams The Art of the Question
The World Caféwww.theworldcafe.
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All images used in this presentation are part of the World Café Community Creative Commons
We see a movement from the traditional view that talk and action
are separateto an understanding of conversation
as a core process for creating our world
Outcomes are better when they are informed by:
• Diversity of Perspectives • Cross Pollination of Ideas
• Attention to Meta Level Themes & Patterns• Questions that Matter to People
And…We have the Capacity, Creativity and Wisdom to Address our most Challenging
Issues!
Connection + Conversation bring Intelligence to Life!
Understanding the World Café’s fascinating model of a living social system is essential for the understanding of life and leadership in human organizations.
Fritjof Capra, author of Web of Life and The Hidden
Connections
Endorsements
The challenge of leadership in these times of breathtaking speed and exhausting complexity is to find creative ways to embrace the future, and let of the past. World Café dialogue provides us the opportunity to do just that.
Paul Borawski, ED and Chief Strategic Offer,
America Society for Quality
Endorsements