The New Horizon of the World Cafe 18th Annual IAF Asia Facilitators Conference The New Horizon of the World Cafe What Differences Can We Make for Society, Organization, and Community? Hosted by Kazuaki Katori Kohei Onozawa

20 Years of the World Café ! ～A Generative Conversation Process Discovered During Coffee Break～

"Power of the World Café” Celebrating 20th Anniversary of the World Cafe "Power of the World Café” What Differences Can We Make for Society, Organization, and Community? Date Event Name Outline Organizer participants Place Japanese and foreign residents in Japan Oct.21 The World Café Evening Amy Lenzo will be invited to join “The World Café Evening “ event Mindechoe IAF Japan GLC Tokyo 19:00-21:00 Oct.23 Amy Lenzo present The World Café seminar for practitioners to enhance hosting skills. World Café Host Training Japanese practitioners Qualia 10:00-17:00 Tokyo AM Presentation by Juanita Brown followed by the World Café conversation hosted by Amy Lenzo IAF Facilitation Week 2015 North Carolina, Tokyo, And 9 other locations throughout Japan Juanita Brown (online real time). Amy Lenzo and 500 Japanese participants Oct.25 The World Café Japan IAF Japan FAJ 10:00-17:00 AM The World Café on the past experiences and future possibilities hosted by Amy Lenzo. Online participants from Japan , Asian countries and hosted by Amy Lenzo. Oct.27 Amy Lenzo will host Online World Café with participants from Japan and Asian countries. Online (Maestro Conference) The World Café Asia 10:00-13:00 IAF Japan 3

The Online World Café Asia Let’s Celebrate 20th Anniversary of the World Café! Online World Café Asia hosted by Amy Lenzo Oct.27th 2015 Maestro Conference provides a platform for Online World Cafe Participants from their office/home access the system and join the conversation Amy Lenzo host the World Café conversation

＊To share our own stories about the World Café Objectives of Today’s Session ＊To share our own stories about the World Café ＊To explore future possibilities of applying the World Café to make differences for society, organizations and communities. 5

What is the World Café? The World Cafe is rather simple-looking conversational process which was originated by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs in 1995. The World Café is designed to foster collective knowledge sharing and knowledge creation. The World Café fosters collaborative dialogue and creating innovative possibilities for action particularly in large groups. 6

Process Conversation at each table （１） Conversation at each table (3) Question that matters Conversation at each table （１） Harvesting is important There are many ways to do harvesting ! Member change Conversation at each table （2 ） Member change Conversation at each table (3) Harvesting by all participants 7

Café Etiquette ◇ Focus on the question that matter ◇　Contribute your thinking　　　　　　　　　 ◇　Make your each speech short and precise　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ◇　Listen to understand　 ◇　Link and connect ideas　 ◇　Listen together for patterns, insights, and deeper connections ◇　Play draw doodle 　Have fun！ 8

Let’s start the World Café ! Table Conversation 　　　　Round 1 9

What was the most impressive World Cafe you have ever experienced? Question What was the most impressive World Cafe you have ever experienced?  10

Member Change Let’s Move To Other Table 11

Let’s continue conversation ! Table Conversation 　　　　Round 2 12

Question What do you like most about the World Cafe? 13

Let’s Move To The First Table 14

Let’s continue conversation ! Table Conversation 　　　　Round 3 15

Question How will you use the World Cafe to make differences for society, organizations, and communities? 16

Now is the time for Harvesting 17

Harvesting Harvesting is to synthesize discoveries and display Café insights in order to help participants notice the deeper connections between the parts and the whole. World Café hosts around the globe are discovering many innovative ways to make visible the essence of their learning from Café dialogues. Source : Juanita Brown and David Isaacs “The World Café ^Shaping Our Future Through Conversation That Matter~” 18

What do you think are attractiveness of the World Cafe? Harvesting What do you think are attractiveness of the World Cafe? (2) For  what purposes do you want to use 19

Online World Café Asia hosted by Amy Lenzo Oct.27th 2015 Please join us to celebrate 20th Anniversary of the World Café by participating in the online World Café Asia Maestro Conference provides a platform for Online World Cafe Participants from their office/home access the system and join the conversation Amy Lenzo host the World Café conversation 20