World Cafe

The World Café is a way of organizing conversation so that a group can hear itself think. It creates the conditions for people to connect across boundaries, share what they know, and discover what they did not realize they knew.
People meet in small groups of four or five, at tables. They begin with a question that matters, one that invites more than a yes/no or opinion. After a set time, people move to a new table. One person stays as the host to share what has already been said and welcome the next round. This continues for several cycles, so ideas travel through the room and are shaped by many voices.
It relies on the power of small groups to open up thinking and the movement of people to connect those conversations into a whole. This is not about fixing a problem in a single meeting. It is about creating a living network of conversations that people feel they own, because they helped to make it.

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