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The World Café method – overview
What has to be borne in mind with the World Café method? Which pitfalls lie in wait? How can the method be adapted to specific circumstances? Here is an overview.
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World Café Method
The "World Café" method is now among the most popular and most frequently used large group methods. The advantages of the method are obvious:
- can be used in a great many different contexts and with different objectives, for example
- Strategy Development
- change management.
- Team Development
- Stakeholder management
- At conferences and conventions
- you achieve concrete and usable results within a very short time
- manageable time expenditure
- networking and getting to know the participants happens "on the side"
- as an interactive element that gets results and is always rated a "good method" by participants
Collection of articles on the World Café method
In the following collection of articles you will find detailed descriptions and background on the aspects of the World Café method named above – and beyond.
Preparation of World Café events
Preparing Open Space, World Café and other large group events
Open Space, World Café, Future Search: the method is rarely the problem. The preparation is. What matters if the energy is not to fizzle out.
Read the article →World Café – the 7 most important questions for successful preparation
When preparing large group events such as a World Café, what matters above all is good preparation. Which…
Read the article →Mistakes and misunderstandings
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Everyone was very happy with your facilitation. The agreements we reached together are working wonders. The team workshop did us a great deal of good.
The feedback on the conference was genuinely positive across the board. We can carry on working very well with the results. Many thanks for your commitment.
I always love working with professionals — many thanks for facilitating so purposefully.
The interactive conference design was a real help in implementing our WIR strategy. The high level of staff involvement gave us important ideas for the work ahead. The preparation was precise and working with you on site was professional and very pleasant. Thank you.
Our leadership conference benefited greatly from your thorough methodological advice and professional facilitation. The results exceeded our expectations.
The Open Space format was a powerful and thoroughly successful start to our change process. The ministry was delighted too.
Thank you for the valuable insight into how you work in practice, and for the many tips and facilitation tricks that brought the methods to life.
Your attentive, well-grounded facilitation and the inspiration you brought helped us a great deal. The team was delighted too.
Many thanks for the highly professional and motivating way you ran the Open Space. The feedback from participants was positive throughout.
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