world café

Welcome, to this cozy corner of cyberspace, the virtual home of our action inquiry underway that is exploring the potential for synergy between the World Café and Theory U.

 

Your hosts include George Pór, Sheryl Erickson and Ria Baeck, who have initiated an action inquiry into prototyping a process by which multiple social technologies might discover and realize their potential synergies. Amy Lenzo of the World Café community has joined the team, bringing her talents as an online host and beautifier (visual design support).

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• What are my insights about the World Café?  What further questions do I have about the World Café?
• In what context can you imagine using this method of listening and learning that would be just perfect?
• Is there someone I have connected to at this training who might be interested in hosting such a dialogue with me?

The World Café is a method for creating a living network of collaborative dialogue around questions that matter in real life situations. It is a provocative metaphor...as we create our lives, our organizations, and our communities, we are, in effect, moving among ‘table conversations’ at the World Café. (From The World Café Resource Guide)

Operating principles of World Cafe:
o Create hospitable space
o Explore questions that matter
o Encourage each person’s contribution  read more »

One of the tools of Art of Hosting is the World Café. In our training we used it, besides the Circle and Open Space. There is a User's Guide available for everybody who want to know more and maybe want to use the World Café in her own environment. You can download this User's Guide here.

The best way to know more about the World Café is to go to their website; it is beautiful and a lot of content can be read there. There is also a new video to watch...