How do you facilitate the World Cafe?

How do you facilitate the World Cafe?

The World Cafe Etiquette

1. Focus on What Matters.
2. Contribute Your Thinking.
3. Speak Your Mind and Heart.
4. Listen to Understand.
5. Link and Connect Ideas.
6. Listen Together for Insights and Deeper Questions (Playing, Doodling, Drawing are all encouraged!)
7. Have Fun!

How do you facilitate the World Cafe online?

To conduct the virtual world café, we used Zoom in order to bring the full group of 20 participants together for directions and then easily move them into breakout rooms for the conversational rounds.

Who Invented World Cafe?

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.

Where does World Cafe come from?

In 1995, a small group of business and academic leaders were meeting at the home of Juanita Brown and David Isaacs in Mill Valley, California. None of them had any idea they were about to create a social innovation that would spread rapidly around the world.

What are the facilitation methods?

10 meeting facilitation techniques to improve your skills

• Begin your meetings with a quick check-in.
• Review desired outcomes and agenda items.
• Assign meeting roles.
• Practice active listening.
• Synthesize the main themes to reframe the conversation.
• Pause and allow for reflection.
• Encourage and balance participation.

What is a Virtual World Cafe?

20. The World Café method is a collaborative dialogue format for large groups and part of the Art of Hosting method universe. Participants have a collective, progressive conversation by moving from table to table in overall three rounds.

How do I run a virtual cafe?

Tips for hosting a virtual coffee/fika

1. SCHEDULE YOUR COFFEE. Unless you’re working in a virtual office, you are not going to accidentally bump into each other online like you would near the coffee machine.
2. USE VIDEO.
3. KEEP TECHNICAL PROBLEMS TO A MINIMUM.
4. BYOB.
5. USE ICEBREAKERS.
6. PLAY GAMES.
7. GET CREATIVE.

Who is the host of World Cafe?

Raina Douris
World Cafe (radio program)

The World Cafe Live venue at the former Hajoca Corp. showroom
Genre	Music/Interview
Hosted by	David Dye (1991–2017) Talia Schlanger (2017–2019) Raina Douris (2019–present)
Original release	1991 – present
Website	worldcafe.npr.org

In which form is coffee first grown?

Arabica is a species of coffee that is also known as the “coffee shrub of Arabia”, “mountain coffee” or “arabica coffee”. Coffea arabica is believed to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated, being grown in southwest Arabia for well over 1,000 years.

How do you run a world cafe on Zoom?

To run a world / knowledge café, you need to divide your large group of participants into smaller sub-groups. These smaller groups rotate between a series of tables, discussing a specific talking point at each table with the help of a fixed table host (facilitator) at each table.

What is the purpose of the World Cafe?

The World Cafe methodology is based on the belief that ‘ we are wiser together’ and that the future can be shaped ‘through conversations that matter’. It is a method that is therefore best used for: collaboration and network building. The method has been used with groups from 12 to 1200 participants.

Is the World Cafe a good way to do a workshop?

When run properly, with the right balance of informality and structure, the World Cafe is a very effective way of facilitating a workshop. It can also produce a rich and innovative output. Here is the method, the seven design principles and the etiquette for The World Cafe system: To organise and facilitate a World Cafe workshop follow these steps:

Why is the World Cafe an organizing image?

Using The World Café as an organizing image allows leaders to intentionally design processes that take advantage of the natural dynamics that are already at play in order to create sustainable business and social value. Several years ago, we serendipitously discovered the unique power of Café style conversations.

What are the rules of the World Cafe?

The World Cafe Etiquette. In addition to the design principles there are some simple rules of etiquette that help to get the most from a World Café workshop: 1. Focus on What Matters. 2. Contribute Your Thinking. 3. Speak Your Mind and Heart. 4. Listen to Understand. 5. Link and Connect Ideas. 6.