I wrote about Large Group Intervention Strategies a little over a year ago with some links and a download.  I thought it would be a good idea to pick up on some of these tools and share a little more about them. I have chosen the World Cafe because – to be honest – I have just come across a wonderful 25 page book excerpt from Berrett-Koehler.  You can visit the World Cafe web site here.

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In the first comprehensive book on the World Café, co-founders Juanita Brown and David Isaacs introduce readers to this simple yet powerful conversational process for thinking together, evoking collective intelligence, and creating actionable results. World Café principles and processes have been used successfully over the past decades with organizations and communities on six continents.

The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community’s own collective intelligence around its most important questions.

The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

Are you interested in convening and hosting a World Café?  These resources will guide you through the process. Taken together, they cover everything from considerations related to the design of the café, physical set-up of the café environment, creative application of the café design principles, and much more. All you need are people and a place to meet!

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