Research Catalog

Title

The World Café : shaping our futures through conversations that matter / Juanita Brown with David Isaacs and the World Café community.

Author

Brown, Juanita, 1944-

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2005.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Isaacs, David, 1938-

Subject

• Group facilitation
• Communication in social action
• Conversation > Social aspects
• World café

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-235) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : we can be wise only together / Margaret J. Wheatley -- Introduction : beginning the conversation : an invitation to the World Cafe -- Ch. 1. Seeing the invisible : conversation matters! -- Ch. 2. Conversation as a core process : co-creating business and social value -- Ch. 3. Principle 1 : set the context -- Ch. 4. Principle 2 : create hospitable space -- Ch. 5. Principle 3 : explore questions that matter -- Ch. 6. Principle 4 : encourage everyone's contribution -- Ch. 7. Principle 5 : cross-pollinate and connect diverse perspectives -- Ch. 8. Principle 6 : listen together for patterns, insights, and deeper questions -- Ch. 9. Principle 7 : harvest and share collective discoveries -- Ch. 10. Guiding the Cafe process : the art of hosting -- Ch. 11. Conversational leadership : cultivating collective intelligence -- Ch. 12. The call of our times : creating a culture of dialogue -- Epilogue : how can we talk it through? / Anne W. Dosher -- Afterword : discovering the magic of collective creativity / Peter M. Senge.

ISBN

1576752585

LCCN

• ^^2004062386
• 9781576752586

OCLC

56876852

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library