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World cafe in LSI


Currently i am attending a facilitation workshop. In the workshop i have expierienced  World cafe. It is a process of LSIP. It is a group process where  different groups come together to generate ideas and create knowledge.

World cafe is mainly giving space to people to have a conversation and come up with new ideas. It is a very effective group process.
In the workshop all of us divided into 4 groups of 6-7 memebers in each group. We have been given a topic. The instructions were to write 2,3 points about that topic on the flipchart on the wall. After writing atleast 3 ideas about that topic, every group have to move to another flip chart of other group and write 2,3 points on different topic. After completing all 4 topics, again we have to go to our own original topic and use two tools Tick and question mark , to show our like and doubts regarding the points which other teams mentioned on the chart. We have to do this activity for all the four charts. After that we have to move back to our group and discuss every chart.We have to discuss every question mark.

In this process i got to see a lot of group wisdom present in the group. I expierienced the different perspective of every memeber of the workshop.We can create a platform to share the group wisdom with the help of this tool.

This is one way to do a World cafe. There are other ways to do a world cafe but the idea is to bring different stakeholders in the group and give the space to have the conversation and to create a shared understanding.

World cafe is a very effective tool for large scale interactive process. It cretes the space for divergence and convergence of ideas. It can be use with heterogenous groups, with different stakeholders to come to a shared understading.

World cafe can be used to create a great vision for  the company or community or any institution. It can be used to create strategy to achieve a vision. It can also be used for sharing the group wisdom.

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