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SBODN OD World Café 2004

SBODN OD World Café 2004 Sarah Kensler Monday, January 5, 2004 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

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SBODN OD World Café 2004

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  1. SBODN OD World Café 2004 Sarah Kensler Monday, January 5, 2004

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Café Overview Chart

  7. 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

  8. 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 • Listentogether for insights and deeper questions • Play, doodle, draw – writing on the tablecloths is encouraged! • Have fun!

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

  10. Group Report Out Chart #1

  11. Group Report Out Chart #2

  12. 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.theworldcafe.com/twcrg.html

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