What is World Cafe facilitation techniques?

The World Cafe is a method which makes use of an informal cafe setting for participants to explore an issue by discussing it in small table groups. Discussion is held in multiple rounds of 20-30 minutes, with the cafe ambiance intended to allow for more relaxed and open conversations to take place.

What is the World Cafe model?

The World Café methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. It is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes. The technique builds on the notion of group intelligence.

How do you do a world cafe virtually?

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.

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 a cafe meeting?

World Cafe is a large group discussion technique designed to encourage the kind of intimate small group discussions one might have at a cafe on a selected topic. Participants sit at small tables with 5 or fewer other people. After a brief introduction, the group discusses a series of questions at their table.

Who Invented World Cafe?

Juanita Brown
The World Café is becoming something of a full-fledged movement in the organizational change arena. Originated in the USA by Academy Fellow Juanita Brown and her partner, David Isaacs, in the early 1990s, it is living up to its name as it expands throughout the globe.

What is a virtual cafe?

The virtual cafe would be an actual, physical cafe, where every table is equipped with state-of-the-art videoconferencing hardware. You and a friend would each go to a cafe in your respective cities, sit down across from each other, order drinks from the same menu, and simply have a conversation.

What is a virtual coffee?

What is a virtual coffee chat? Coffee chats are usually in-person meetings you set up with someone you want to add to your network. A virtual coffee chat is the same thing, except you’re meeting people over a video app or software like Zoom, Skype or even Google Hangouts.

What is a Zoom Cafe?

Zoom is a cloud-based video meeting system that is perfect for hosting virtual Knowledge Cafés. Users can not only access the meeting platform through Windows or Mac desktops but also through Apple or Android smartphones or tablets. The video and audio quality are excellent, and the platform is stable.

What are the facilitation tools?

Facilitators’ Toolbox

• Ice Breakers – Easing group contribution.
• Running Effective Meetings – Setting an objective and sticking to it.
• Modified Borda Count – Prioritizing issues to achieve consensus.
• MultiVoting – Choosing fairly between many options.
• Brainstorming – Generating many radical ideas.

How to set up a world cafe workshop?

To organise and facilitate a World Cafe workshop follow these steps: 1. Create the Setting Firstly you need to create a “special” environment. This is most often modelled after a café; for example, small round tables covered with a tablecloth (preferably that can be drawn/written upon).

What are the principles of the World Cafe?

World Cafe Method. Drawing on seven integrated design principles, the World Café methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. Each element of the method has a specific purpose and corresponds to one or more of the design principles. World Café can be modified to meet a wide variety of needs.

What do you mean by world cafe conversations?

What are World Café Conversations? is an easy-to-use method for creating a living network of collaborative dialogue around questions that matter in service to real work. Cafés in different contexts have been named in many ways to meet specific goals, for example Creative Cafés, Strategy Cafés, Leadership Cafés, and Community Cafés.

How to organise and facilitate a virtual world cafe?

While we have been facilitating many in-presence World Cafés over the past few years, in a virtual World Café our experience is that a more detailed preparation and also trained moderators are very important. A virtual event depends a lot on the energy of the participants.