The World Cafe

[chris macrae]

I think there is a desperate need for a 1 hour (2 hour max) café/circle
format -let them openly multiply and see which thrive

I would like to see open space people catalogue those clarifying what it
is that you give up in each format compared with the full 3 day open
space. Seen from this perspective: world café is only one of various
viable formats, and like Open Space itself, there is also potential for
huge execution slip, but the more with WC the less clear it makes what
its minimal rules are

When it comes to cafes giving up something I believe this is perfectly
legitimate to love open space but to want to do its spirit more often
than 3-day events will allow, as well as induct people in the
possibilities who will never start with a 3-day event. Those managers
who are most out of control of their time -and other people's -
paradoxically need Open Space most but will seldom find the 3-day
starting line

Here is a context of critical interest to me and people in large cities
I network with. It is not like World Café's which says its scale to any
number by multiplying tables in circulation but it is intent on
maximizing the learning of the 12

Suppose that we put all the same effort into an invitation process so
that contextually the people who come are the right people; suppose that
we make the maximum number at a café 12. Speaking very personally I
simply do not believe JC would have used WC, but then I have given up
understanding what many people mean by both faith and bushes because I
am just a mathematician who likes seeing what maps people connect
around.

Suppose what we "mathematicial open sourcers" want to know after 2 hours
is which of those people will continue networking for ever until the
invitation's puzzle is resolved at least in all the minds of those who
join in.

How does one do that café? I suspect within the facilitation experiences
of this listserve there is much wisdom for iteratively designing the
answer as anywhere. And at least in terms of learning networks, this
open source café's "Request for Design" could be a baby in the open
space family??

Chris Macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk London 0793 144 2446  & DC
http://www.disruptive-mice.org/forums/24/ShowForum.aspx
The most disruptive virtual café known until you all beam us up

Open Maths of The Game of Your Life http://futurewealth.blogspot.com/

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