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The World Café : shaping our futures through conversations that matter / Juanita Brown with David Isaacs and the World Café community.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781576752586
- Physical Description: xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2005.
Content descriptions
| 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. |
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| Subject: | Group facilitation. Communication in social action. Conversation > Social aspects. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Decoda Literacy Library | 302.346 B76 2005 (Text) | 35410000005371 | General Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
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.
