1. 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

2. 20 Years of the World Café !
～A Generative Conversation Process Discovered During Coffee Break～

3. "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

4. 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

5. ＊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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

11. Member Change
Let’s Move
To Other Table 11

12. Let’s continue conversation !
Table Conversation
　　　　Round 2 12

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

14. Let’s Move
To The First Table 14

15. Let’s continue conversation !
Table Conversation
　　　　Round 3 15

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

17. Now is the time for
Harvesting 17

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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