My copy of The World Cafe arrived yesterday, so I've only just started the reading, but it looks very interesting. We used World Cafe last year in Scotland at the OT22 conference (Organizational Transformation - year 22) for the first morning, then went into Open Space for the remainder of the 3 days.
John Adams was one of the key facilitators of that - if he is on this perhaps he can speak to the process or motivation for using it. I thought it was a good experience - yes more structured than a usual open space beginning but I liked hearing the ideas from the different groups and how they built on each other - and the physical medium of writing/drawing on the paper covering the tables. And for me, it helped get to know the people in the group. Following that we went into open space with opening the circle as usual. I don't know if it will be used at OT23 this July in Milwaukee or not - perhaps if Shelia Isakson is on here she can speak to that. Not having lead OS yet (I'm a fringe dweller on this list) I have participated in a few. Currently where I work the leaders are not quite open to it. I am exploring WC as a tool I might be able to introduce there and would like to hear more how others have used it and what benefits they have found with it. Susan Kerr Milwaukee, WI, USA * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
