Tom Wujec: Construye una torre, construye un equipo. Rejection Breeds Fresh Ideas. Knowledge Sharing Tools and Methods Toolkit - home. World Café Method. Drawing on seven integrated design principles, the World Café methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. World Café can be modified to meet a wide variety of needs. Specifics of context, numbers, purpose, location, and other circumstances are factored into each event's unique invitation, design, and question choice, but the following five components comprise the basic model: 1) Setting: Create a "special" environment, most often modelled after a café, i.e. small round tables covered with a checkered tablecloth, butcher block paper, colored pens, a vase of flowers, and optional "talking stick" item.
There should be four chairs at each table. 2) Welcome and Introduction: The host begins with a warm welcome and an introduction to the World Café process, setting the context, sharing the Cafe Etiquette, and putting participants at ease. The World Cafe. The World Cafe. The World Cafe refers to both a vision and a method of dialogue. It evolved out of conversations and experimentation one day at the home of consultants Juanita Brown and David Isaacs. World Café Conversations are an intentional way to create a living network of conversation around questions that matter.
A Café Conversation is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes. The challenges of life in the 21st Century require us to find new ways to access the wisdom and intelligence inherent in groups both small and large. The need for collaboration, insight and coordinated action has never been greater. Café Conversations are one way that communities, businesses, governments, and people from all walks of life are using to create a common purpose, share knowledge, make more intelligent decisions, and call forth life-affirming action together.
The seven design principles of World Café are: For more info see. Workshop formats: World cafe. Not an original notion - but an interesting one. The World cafe concept has been around a while www.theworldcafe.com. We use this technique often in our workshops (dial-e.net), and at a recent event UTS (University of Technology Sydney) it attracted some interesting comments - so perhaps worth a reminder. You've done some input, you have some group tasks defined and the groups are all working away. Then there is the dreaded plenary, you've allowed 5 minutes for each group to feedback on their deliberations - but the second group goes on for ages and by the time you get to the sixth round of feedback people feel they have nothing to add.
In this workshop model (there are lots of variations) 7 groups of 4 each worked away on the task we had assigned them for 15 minutes, supported by a single sheet of A4 on which to record their comments (having white paper tablecloths and lots of pens works even better). The variations are part of the fun, but it can work well with 16 or 160 !