SBODN OD World Caf 2004

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SBODN OD World Café 2004

• Sarah Kensler
• Monday, January 5, 2004

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World Café Menu

• Overview of World Café
• What is the World Café?
• Café as a Metaphor
• Applications of the World Café
• Conducting the Café
• Café Guidelines for Dialog and Engagement
• Café Etiquette
• OD 2004 Café
• Round One
• Round Two
• Group Conversation and Synthesis
• Tidy and Closing

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Overview of World Café

• What is the World Café?
• 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.
• Note The SBODN World café 2004 event is intended
  to provide participants with a taste of the Cafe
  process, and is a variation of the process as
  outlined by the World Café community.

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Overview of World Café cont.

• Café As Metaphor
• The World Café is a metaphor. It's a guiding
  image, a scenario of possibility, and an
  innovative set of tools and methods for evolving
  collective intelligence.
• As a guiding image, the World Café helps us
  appreciate the importance and connectedness of
  the informal webs of conversation and social
  learning through which we
• Discover shared meaning
• Access collective intelligence
• Bring forth the future

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Overview of World Café cont

• Applications of the World Café
• To generate input, share knowledge, stimulate
  innovative thinking, and explore action
  possibilities around real life issues and
  questions
• To engage people--whether they are meeting for
  the first time, or are in established
  relationships--in authentic conversation
• To conduct in-depth exploration of key strategic
  challenges or opportunities
• To deepen relationships and mutual ownership of
  outcomes in an existing group
• To create meaningful interaction between a
  speaker and the audience
• To engage groups larger than 12

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Café Overview Chart
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Conducting the Café

• Café Guidelines for Dialog and Engagement
• Clarify the Context
• Create Hospitable Space
• Explore Questions That Matter
• Encourage Each Person's Contribution
• Connect Diverse Perspectives
• Listen Together for Patterns, Insights and Deeper
  Questions and Share Collective Discoveries

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Conducting the Café cont.

• Café Etiquette
• Focus on what matters
• Contribute your thinking
• Speak your mind and heart
• Listen to understand
• Link and connect ideas
• Listen together for insights and deeper questions
• Play, doodle, draw writing on the tablecloths
  is encouraged!
• Have fun!

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OD Café Question

• What are the key business issues facing companies
  today, and how can OD address them?

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Group Report Out Chart 1
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Group Report Out Chart 2
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References

• The World Café website
• http//www.theworldcafe.com/
• The World Cafe A Resource Guide for Hosting
  Conversations That Matter.
• Available for sale only through Pegasus
  Communications http//www.pegasuscom.com/
• Cafe To Go concise guide.
• Available for download from http//www.theworldca
  fe.com/twcrg.html