The World Cafe

[Harrison Owen]

The process was the same as always. . . sit in circle, create bulletin
board, etc. As for proceedings, none were done, but then none were needed.
The group went from Open Space to real open space to do the work required.

ho

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of chris
macrae
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:57 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: The World Cafe

Harrison: the idea of the one hour open space is really something I
would love to understand, well as far as my person can

Are there any bookmarks to what happened in the 60 minutes;

I am thinking of this from 2 aspects
- what was the order of play the host opened

-What in your view was given up compared with if those had been 3 day
events, ... was scale necessarily given up - eg what is the largest one
hour open space?

Perhaps Open Space does already have its emergency café in which case I
would love it to be the benchmark all cafes were compared with in terms
of why did someone add in this extra facilitation here that there etc

chris macrae

-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Harrison Owen
Sent: 04 May 2005 14:25
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: The World Cafe

Chris -- It is probably important to point out that the difference
between
World Café and Open Space has nothing to do with time. It is all about
control and pre-existing structure. I have been part of Open Spaces that
were organized in the moment and lasted for less than an hour. Given the
situation, it was the only thing that could be done, and the level,
intensity, and productivity of the conversation was outstanding. And,
for
whatever it is worth, none of the participants had ever been in an Open
Space previously. Of course, we did not reach the depth that is possible
in
a multi-day Open Space -- but there was zero question about the capacity
of
the people involved to thrive in the space/time available.

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