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World Café

World Cafe is designed to foster open communication end sharing within a group. Questions are designed to begin at a general level and move towards more focused meaning around a particular topic. Participants move to new tables for each question so that they comment with a larger groups of individuals and hear new perspectives. As a result, ideas flow around the room and thinking converges on shared meaning by “listening into the middle”.

World Café isuse to: -       Foster open and meaningful discussion of a topic -       Surface areas of commonality and draw people into common problem solving -       Remove the formal atmosphere of a traditional meeting -       Gain a higher quantity of responses on specific topics in a short time. Provide information from a range of perspectives -       Build community among diverse participants