World Café Workshop

New for 2010, we will be introducing a relaxed, informal café-style event involving everybody, altogether, in the same place. The World Café is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter.

The DSA conference delegates will be mixed together to identify main topics of opportunity for discussion, to create powerful and engaging questions relating to these, and to tackle these questions creatively through sketching, writing and discussion.

These discussions link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinating ideas, and discovering new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community.

As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims.

The integrated design principles have been distilled over the years as a guide to intentionally harnessing the power of conversation for business and social value.

When used in combination, they provide useful guidance for anyone seeking creative ways to foster authentic dialogue in which the goal is thinking together and creating actionable knowledge.

The discussions are captured graphically, and ideas, actions and major opportunity areas are then identified and taken forward to help in all our business strategies.