Proffit: World Cafe
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This document introduces the World Café method for facilitating collaborative discussions. It describes the World Café as having 3 rounds of conversation at different tables to discuss questions that are important for real work. Participants can choose to stay at their table as a host or travel to new tables. After the rounds, participants discuss emerging themes, patterns, and insights from the conversations. The goal is to spark dialogue that can create new possibilities for the future on topics like incorporating international themes into school curriculums.
Proffit: World Cafe
- 1. Welcome to the World Café
- 2. Café Conversations are an easy-to-use method for creating a living network of collaborative dialogue around questions that matter in service of the real work
- 3. Café Movements 3 Rounds of Conversation at 3 Different Tables Harvest
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- 5. QuickTimeª and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. Avril Orloff
- 6. Questions are intrinsically related to action, they spark and direct attention, perception, energy and effort… Creativity requires asking genuine questions, those to which an answer is not already known. Questions function as open-handed invitations to creativity, calling forth that which doesn’t yet exist. -Marilee Goldberg Adams The Art of the Question
- 7. Café Round 1: Share one remarkable curricular idea or innovation that you’ve used and that weaves international understanding into the curriculum.
- 9. Café Traveling Continuing the Conversation • Choose one host to stay • Others travel to new and separate tables • Hosts welcome new people to the table • Wait for what’s next
- 10. Café Round 2: What had real meaning for you from what you’ve heard? What surprised you? What challenged you?
- 12. Café Traveling Continuing the Conversation • Choose one host to stay • Others travel to new and separate tables • Hosts welcome new people to the table • Wait for what’s next
- 13. Café Round 3: What conversation, if begun today, could ripple out in a way that created new possibilities for the future of incorporating interdisciplinary themes and international understandings in the curriculum?
- 15. Harvest Based on your three rounds of conversation, what themes, patterns and insights are emerging?
- 16. Based on the work of Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and the World Café Community Graphics by Nancy Margulies and Avril Orloff Hosted by Donald Proffit, Thank You Northeast U.S. Region Steward 1700 Riverside Drive Trenton, NJ 08618 609-649-9280 proffitprojects@mac.com www.proffitprojects.com Larry Hunt For resources and information see Visual Practitioner www.theworldcafe.com The images in this presentation are sourced from the World Café Creative Commons. Please cite this source if you use them in the future.