The World Cafe is another process The Bluestone Group can bring to your business, conference, or networking event. This process is a wonderful way to have a large group have rich, small group conversation about issues that matter. It is an effective way to create relationships in a big group, explore ideas as a large group, and keep participation and energy at a high level.
The Café process is almost infinitely malleable and will work with any group of 12 or more. We have successfully conducted Cafés with 1200 people, so size is not a problem. To date most of the Cafés we have designed, hosted and convened have been to enable large groups of people to think together about some aspect of their common future. It is a powerful community development tool. The World Café process has been used successfully at large conferences, at town meetings, among educators, for designing and implementing organizational strategy, and in numerous other settings. - NCDD
