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The World Café : shaping our futures through conversations that matter / Juanita Brown with David Isaacs and the World Café community.

Brown, Juanita, 1944- (Author). Isaacs, David, 1938- (Added Author).

Summary:

The World Café is a process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action designed around seven core principles. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization's or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions. The World Café is filled with stories of actual Café dialogues in such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, the nation of Singapore, and the University of Texas.

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  • ISBN: 9781576752586
  • Physical Description: xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2005.

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General Note:
"Foreward by Margaret J. Wheatley ; Afterword by Peter Senge"
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-235) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreward: We Can Be Wise Only Together, by Margaret J. Wheatley -- Introduction: Beginning the Conversation: An Invitation to the World Cafe -- Chapter 1: Seeing the Invisible: Conversation Matters! -- Chapter 2: Conversation as a Core Process: Co-Creating Business and Social Value -- Chapter 3: Principle 1: Set the Context -- Chapter 4: Principle 2: Create Hospitable Space -- Chapter 5: Principle 3: Explore Questions That Matter -- Chapter 6: Principle 4: Encourage Everyone's Contribution -- Chapter 7: Principle 5: Cross-Pollinate and Connect Diverse Perspectives -- Chapter 8: Principle 6: Listen Together for Patterns, Insights, and Deeper Questions -- Chapter 9: Principle 7: Harvest and Share Collective Discoveries -- Chapter 10: Guiding the Café Process: The Art of Hosting -- Chapter 11: Conversational Leadership: Cultivating Collective Intelligence -- Chapter 12: The Call of Our Times: Creating a Culture of Dialogue -- Epilogue: How Can We Talk It Through? by Anne W. Dosher -- Afterword: Discovering the Magic of Collective Creativity by Peter M. Senge.
Subject: Group facilitation.
Communication in social action.
Conversation > Social aspects.

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Foreword viii
We Can Be Wise Only Together
Margaret J. Wheatley
Introduction 1(11)
Beginning the Conversation: An Invitation to the World Cafe
Seeing the Invisible: Conversation Matters!
12(14)
Discovering the World Cafe: The Intellectual Capital Pioneers
14(2)
Perspectives and Observations
16(9)
Questions for Reflection
25(1)
Conversation as a Core Process: Co-Creating Business and Social Value
26(16)
Creating a Culture of Dialogue: Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa Bay
28(3)
It's Win-Win All the Way: Sanofi-Synthelabo, Canada
31(3)
Perspectives and Observations
34(7)
Questions for Reflection
41(1)
Principle 1: Set the Context
42(18)
De Congreso a Conversacion (From Conference to Conversation): Mexico's National Fund for Social Enterprise
44(4)
Perspectives and Observations
48(11)
Questions for Reflection
59(1)
Principle 2: Create Hospitable Space
60(18)
A System Thinking Together: The Pegasus Systems Thinking in Action Conference
62(4)
Perspectives and Observations
66(5)
Building on Traditions of Dialogue: Saudi Aramco
71(6)
Questions for Reflection
77(1)
Principle 3: Explore Questions That Matter
78(16)
A Cafe on Questions
80(8)
Perspectives and Observations
88(5)
Questions for Reflection
93(1)
Principle 4: Encourage Everyone's Contribution
94(12)
Every Voice Counts: Fostering a Culture of Contribution: The Financial Planning Association
96(3)
Perspectives and Observations
99(6)
Questions for Reflection
105(1)
Principle 5: Cross-Pollinate and Connect Diverse Perspectives
106(16)
The Peace Cafe: University of Victoria Law School
108(3)
Perspectives and Observations
111(5)
Suddenly, It Crystallized: The Fielding Graduate Institute
116(5)
Questions for Reflection
121(1)
Principle 6: Listen Together for Patterns, Insights, and Deeper Questions
122(16)
What's in the Middle of the Table? Scandinavian Sustainability Forum
124(3)
Perspectives and Observations
127(9)
Questions for Reflection
136(2)
Principle 7: Harvest and Share Collective Discoveries
138(16)
Harvesting and Planting Seeds of Change: University of Texas at San Antonio, Executive MBA Program
140(4)
Perspectives and Observations
144(4)
Connecting the Parts and the Whole: The Financial Planning Association
148(5)
Questions for Reflection
153(1)
Guiding the Cafe Process: The Art of Hosting
154(22)
Working on Behalf of Their Sisters: African Women with Disabilities
156(3)
Perspectives and Observations
159(3)
The World Cafe Hosting Guide
162(13)
Questions for Reflection
175(1)
Conversational Leadership: Cultivating Collective Intelligence
176(20)
Fostering Conversational Leadership in Education: Polk County Schools
178(2)
The Results Are in the Relationships: Hewlett-Packard
180(3)
Living Strategy: Discovering the Future, Together: American Society for Quality
183(2)
Perspectives and Observations
185(2)
Designing Organizational Infrastructures for Dialogue: Philip Morris USA
187(8)
Questions for Reflection
195(1)
The Call of Our Times: Creating a Culture of Dialogue
196(30)
What Does It Mean to Care? Creating a Learning Culture Through Dialogue: Singapore
198(4)
Perspectives and Observations
202(9)
Questions for Reflection
211(1)
Epilogue
How Can We Talk It Through?
212(5)
Anne W. Dosher
Afterword
Discovering the Magic of Collective Creativity
217(4)
Peter M. Senge
Acknowledgments
It Takes a Village to Raise a Child
221(5)
Illustration Credits
226(7)
Resources and Connections
The World Cafe
229(1)
Related Resources
230(3)
Bibliography 233(3)
Index 236(6)
About the Authors 242


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