The World Café aims to facilitate collaborative dialogue and knowledge and idea sharing in a creative way through conversation by creating a café ambiance of small groups sitting around tables. After a specified time, the participants move to a new table, apart from the table host, who then recaps the previous conversations to the newtable participants. As a result, the following discussions are cross-pollinated with the ideas from previous conversations among other participants. At the end of the process the main ideas are summarised in a plenary session and follow-up actions are discussed.
Developing CoP Success Factors:
Community interaction
Knowledge production and access to knowledge
CoP Area of Activity:
Creating knowledge
Learning and developing practice
CoP Lifecycle Phases:
Design
Launch
Grow