1. Change Academy 2011 Liquid Café

2. Preparation for the Liquid Cafe Identify one practical challenge or burning question that will move your initiative forward (not the same you worked on this morning) - one you’d like advice on from colleagues. –Be prepared for this to change through the day’s discussions in teams; –Relevant to your team but also to the wider group or sector; Write it on cards – provided – with your institution’s name; Have it ready to be collected by your supporter by 3.15pm; Start at 4pm and all will be revealed then...

3. What is a Liquid Cafe? A form of collaborative inquiry using elements of a World Café activity and an Open Space Technology activity Builds on the assumption that colleagues are a rich source of ideas and that collaborative working is generative of new ideas

4. How does it work? Each team will identify the ‘burning question’ whose solution will move their change academy initiative forward This ‘burning question’ will be relevant to other teams

5. And then……? Each team, in turn, tells everyone else the nature of their project and their ‘burning question’ Colleagues decide which question they want to discuss and move to that table Each table ensures that at least one person stays behind to ‘host’ the conversation Participants are encourages to write comments, solutions, diagrams etc on the paper table cloths which will be saved and the responses shared

6. Groundrules The law of two feet – if you are not learning something and not contributing something – MOVE TO ANOTHER TABLE Colleagues are allowed to be butterflies and bees – a butterfly moves from table to table listening in and moving on; a bee moves from table to table interjecting with what other tables are discussing

7. And finally…… Five minutes before the close of the session, we’ll ask you to return to your team tables. We’ll ask you to tell the whole group about one salient point from the advice received!