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Combine with Knowledge Cafe

Knowledge Cafe and World Cafe are the same thing. There isn't need for two articles.

144.167.36.139 (talk) 14:03, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Addition of information re how World Café events work

Below are a couple of suggested amendments to explain a little better what is involved in a World Café discussion. The following could be added to the end of the first paragraph:

Although pre-defined questions are agreed at the beginning, outcomes or solutions are not decided in advance.[1][2] An underlying assumption of World Café events is that collective discussion can shift people's conceptions and encourage collective action.[3]

The next part indicates the number of people involved, as well as the largest number of participants at a single event. It finishes by including references to organisations that have used World Café events, although avoids specifying who these were, which was a previous criticism of the article:

World Café events tend to have at least twelve participants, but there is no upper limit.[4] Individual World Cafe events have numbered in excess of 10,000, in Tel Aviv, in 2011.[5][6]
World Cafés have been used by a range of organizations.[7][8][9][10] Fbell74 (talk) 08:12, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Christopher M. Bache (28 August 2008). The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7646-8.
  2. ^ Merianne Liteman; Sheila Campbell; Jeffrey Liteman (14 July 2006). Retreats That Work: Everything You Need to Know About Planning and Leading Great Offsites. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-7879-8643-8.
  3. ^ Sarah Lewis (16 March 2011). Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-99621-7.
  4. ^ Graham Dickson; Bill Tholl (13 January 2014). Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment: A New Perspective. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-1-4471-4875-3.
  5. ^ Mauro Galluccio (4 December 2014). Handbook of International Negotiation: Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Diplomatic Perspectives. Springer. pp. 164–. ISBN 978-3-319-10687-8.
  6. ^ Vincent Ribiere; Lugkana Worasinchai (2 July 2013). ICMLG2013-Proceedings of the International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance: ICMLG 2013. Academic Conferences Limited. pp. 205–. ISBN 978-1-909507-00-5.
  7. ^ "World Café Powerpoint". www.democraticdialoguenetwork.org. UNDP. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  8. ^ Margaret J. Wheatley; Deborah Frieze (11 April 2011). Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. pp. 192–. ISBN 978-1-60509-733-6.
  9. ^ Stern, Townsend, Rauch, Schuster, Thomas, Andrew, Franz, Angela (2013). Action Research, Innovation and Change Across Disciplines:: International Perspectives Across Disciplines. Routledge. ISBN 9781317916079. Retrieved 15 December 2014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Peter M. Senge (31 March 2010). The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization. Crown Publishing Group. pp. 362–. ISBN 978-0-307-47764-4.
Comment (I'm going to leave it for someone else to actually answer this request):
  • do we really think that a book that includes stuff like "Symptoms of chakra-opening and kundalini-type arousal may begin to manifest. Energy runs, hearts open, and insights arise." could seriously be considered a reliable source for Wikipedia? Yes, it's published by a university press which should certainly know better.
  • in the first proposed addition, how does " ...outcomes or solutions are not decided in advance. An underlying assumption ... is that collective discussion can shift people's conceptions …" distinguish this from any other meeting or discussion?
  • reference 4 does not support a statement that "events require at least twelve participants", nor that "there is no upper limit", nor that an event in Israel is the largest documented (and that event was not a single meeting, but a co-ordinated series of 30 in various places).
Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:48, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I think that the World Café approach attempts to utilise small groups to give participants space to voice their views. The aim is to ensure everyone gets a chance to be heard and any insights build on what's gone before. In this way the collective wisdom of the group is accumulated. It has been described as a way to ‘unlock negative opinions and misperceptions by enabling groups to listen to differing views..’[1] The idea is to break up group dynamics that might cause groupthink to get in the way of developing insights. The following reference describes this in more detail:[2] I believe this is a differentiating factor and useful to understand the concept, without necessarily being unique to the method.
In terms of the numbers, the following is a source that deals with the numbers mentioned and I’ve added this in (with a correction to indicate that these are typical rather than set in stone). A supporting reference is included. The event in Israel comprised of approximately 30 participating World Cafe discussions taking place in 10 cities[?]. These were coordinated by the organisers to take place simultaneously, so I think it’s accurate to describe it as one event. I've amended this though, as I wasn't sure if it was actually the largest event. Fbell74 (talk) 09:48, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Bertotti, Adams-Eaton, Sheridan, and Renton, Marcello, Faye, Kevin, and Adrian (2012 Apr). "Key Barriers to Community Cohesion: Views from Residents of 20 London Deprived Neighbourhoods". GeoJournal. 77 (2): 223–234. doi:10.1007/s10708-009-9326-1. Retrieved 23 June 2017. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Stöckigt, Teut, Witt, Barbara, Michael, CM (2013). "CAM Use and Suggestions for Medical Care of Senior Citizens: A Qualitative Study Using the World Café Method". Evidence Based Complement Alternative Medicine. 2013: 5. doi:10.1155/2013/951245. PMID 24023586. Retrieved 23 June 2017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Fbell74, please undo the changes you've made to the text above my comment. By altering it after I'd replied you have made nonsense of what I wrote – please see WP:TPO. If you want to submit new text, please do so in a new post below. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:49, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I was trying to improve the text, based on your comments. I've tried to revert the text to the previous version, but am getting this error message - “The edit could not be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits; if you wish to undo the change, it must be done manually.” I'm guessing this is because it would remove your comments. I'll try finding the original version and copying that into the text instead. Fbell74 (talk) 09:28, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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